Hopping off
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Hopping Off
Our regular columns and sections are all contributions from leading industry figures.
Turkeys voting for Christmas?
Many South Africans have said that they won’t be bothering to vote in the upcoming elections. When it comes to public transport, they have...
Houston, we have a problem
…and so, too, does South Africa Who would have thought that this well-known quote is now almost 49 years old? Back in April 1970,...
Beware the hornet’s sting!
Only a few days into the New Year, and here I am looking at bodies being carried away from the latest rail accident in...
Metrorail meltdown
Prasa’s woes mean the new Minister of Transport, Blade Nzimande, has to focus on constitutionality The timing was exquisite. Slap in the middle of...
Here’s your chance, Gautrain!
Here’s an idea for a prospective doctoral thesis The latest twist in the saga at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) is...
It’s tough going it alone
Is the concept of owner-driver inherently false? Let’s look at two articles that appeared on consecutive days (August 21/22) in Business Day. One was...
The parable of the China dolls
Here’s a parable that helps to explain how transport in all its forms is actually letting down the South African economy In addition to...
Of batteries, buses and boardroom buddies
Have electric buses gone backwards? A recent controversy involving a potential MyCiTi supplier might suggest so In January the City of Cape Town suspended...
Let’s save five billion litres!
How much higher will the fuel price have to go before someone starts saying enough is enough? R20 a litre? R30? The days...
Bye-bye, bus industry!
All that a strike in the bus industry will achieve is to sustain its slow implosion. Last month’s column welcomed the fact that civil...
Advice for Solidarity
Just about every subsidised public transport organisation in South Africa could be regarded as insolvent. If government and municipal subsidies were turned off, and...
Now Is Your Chance, Comrade Blade!
I’d speculate that at no time since 1910 has the post of minister of transport been filled by anyone seriously committed to making transport...
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