Category:Hopping Off
Advice for Bombardier
I think itβs a great idea for major suppliers of public transport equipment to express opinions on how to improve the industry, but a...
Have we learnt anything since 2015?
How did we allow Eskom, SAA and e-tolls to get us into such a mess? We are all partly to blame for our failure...
Turkeys voting for Christmas?
Many South Africans have said that they wonβt 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 hornetβs sting!Β
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
Prasaβs woes mean the new Minister of Transport, Blade Nzimande, has to focus on constitutionality The timing was exquisite. Slap in the middle of...
Hereβs your chance, Gautrain!
Hereβs an idea for a prospective doctoral thesis The latest twist in the saga at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) is...
Itβs tough going it alone
Is the concept of owner-driver inherently false? Letβs look at two articles that appeared on consecutive days (August 21/22) in Business Day. One was...
The parable of the China dolls
Hereβs 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...
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