Santaco welcomes Herman Mashaba’s pledge to consider allowing minibus taxis on bus lanes
The minibus taxi industry is elated after Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba announced that he has assigned the city’s transport department to look into the feasibility of the taxi industry using the lanes dedicated for buses. “We are happy with the proposal for us to use the dedicated lanes. In most of the time the bus lanes are empty. We are public transport … let us use the lanes. We are not saying they should be used by private cars. The lanes must be for taxis and buses; then we can say we and the city are speaking the same language. “The industry has been making this call since the Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit system was introduced before the 2010 World Cup‚” said the South African National Taxi Council’s (Santaco’s) Ralph Jones. Mashaba earlier announced that he had assigned head of transport in the city Lisa Seftel to investigate how the taxi industry could use the city’s dedicated bus lanes. Mashaba was speaking on Tuesday at a signing ceremony between the city‚ the taxi indus...
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