Creecy urges business to ‘get its act together’ in taking over running of rail lines
Transport minister says they will ‘do anything legal’ to raise investments that will enable urgent repairs to be made
15 May 2025 - 17:12
UPDATED 15 May 2025 - 23:34
Transport minister Barbara Creecy is working with the Treasury to find ways to enable private players to invest in helping to fix Transnet’s rail infrastructure in the short term, with new private partnership deals on the rail lines expected to take 18-24 more months to conclude.
“We will do anything legal to bring money in to invest ... in the short and medium term, because we can’t sit here and say, ‘well, this is going to take two years’,” she said, adding that the Treasury could co-invest with the private sector through the budget facility for infrastructure...
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