Speech by: Neil Campbell MPL
“Roads and Transport budget will not get Gauteng moving”
- Despite some departmental successes in the past year this budget fails to address urgent problems.
- Corruption lurks in the Transport Department yet a budget plan to eliminate it is lacking.
- The West Rand’s inferior transportation infrastructure requires long overdue improvement. But is Gautrain expansion the answer? Gautrain tickets cost more than PRASA’s and are unaffordable to most commuters as the recent Household Transport Survey revealed.
- Premiere Makhura talks opposition to corruption yet it finds refuge in the Transport Department, right under his nose.
The full speech can be obtained here.
Speech by: Justus de Goede MPL
“Public transport not meeting demands”
- What happened to the “radical” transformation we heard so much about over the last year? The Department’s spending framework for the year certainly doesn’t reflect that.
- Subsidies are falling behind operating costs and new solutions will have to be found to keep routes from being abandoned.
- Research estimates that for each Rand of investment spent on public transport, between R 4 and R 9 in benefit resulted.
- This should be a wake-up call – our public transport systems are not keeping pace with strong and rising demand and need urgent attention.
The full speech can be obtained here.
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