Robin Carlisle, the Minister of Transport and Public Works in the Western Cape, has said that he wants Metrorail "to adjust its planned fare increase from the totally unacceptable 27% planned for 1 April 2012 to a single-digit figure".
Although there had been no increases in fares from 2003 and 2010, Metrorail's planned 27% increase for 2012, added to 2011's 33% increase, means that there will be an effective 60% rise in fares in just two years.
"This increase is totally unacceptable for the following reasons (which I have discussed with Metrorail's Western Cape Regional Manager Mthura Swartz):"
"It appears that there is no end in sight to the indignities inflicted on Metrorail customers, who for years have borne the brunt of bad planning and a lack of investment in rolling stock," Minister Carlisle said.
Steven Otter
Spokesperson
Tel: 021 483 8954
Cell: 084 233 3811
E-mail: steven.otter@westerncape.gov.za