There has been little progress on a R172 billion Prasa modernisation project, with only one out of 135 ‘priority stations’ having been upgraded in the past five years.
Prasa’s massive R172 billion, 20-year plan to modernise its ageing trains and infrastructure is off to a slow start, with just one station completed in the five years since it began, out of a planned 135 “priority” stations.
Even then, modifying and upgrading those 135 train stations is still less than half the number of stations owned by Prasa. Recently, Prasa shocked the nation by trapping President Cyril Ramaphosa on a train for two hours, followed later by pictures of a beaming Ramaphosa stepping into the gleaming new Prasa blue trains from Brazil.
“This means at no point were the stations built with the rolling stock in mind, hence the platform discrepancy for both the old and new trains,” Sithole said.“Part of the modernisation programme is platform rectification that will align the new trains with the platforms.”
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