The Department of Transport has planned out a new strategy for South Africa’s major metros.
The Department of Transport has published the National Land Transport Strategic Framework 2023-2028 for public comment.
The government now plans to make urban public transport across major metros more efficient and capable of taking on increased capacity.prevent critically high traffic volumes by making urban public transport more attractiveThis would counter the current trend of private vehicle ownership in South Africa, which is seen as a critical necessity, given the country’s poor state of public transport.
For this reason, emphasis needs to be placed on building and rolling out quality public transport, it said. “South Africa, similar to many other developing countries and emerging economies, is experiencing a rapid increase in demand for motorised travel, essentially following the same path as developed nations,” the department said.
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