Prasa CEO: Over R650 million spent on restoration of Nyanga to Cape Town rail line
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) CEO Hishaam Emeran said that they had spent more than R650 million to restore Metrorail’s trips on the Nyanga to Cape Town central line.
Minister of Transport Sindisiwe Chikunga inspected the resumption of the service on Tuesday morning.
This part of the line was inactive for almost three years because of vandalism, infrastructure theft, and people living on tracks in Langa.
A limited service was reintroduced two weeks ago.
Emeran said that they planned to bring more sections of the route online, soon.
“Bontheuwel station we’re stopping at, but we will also be stopping at Heideveld station before the end of this month. These are critical stations that we need to bring back.
“We currently have one line operational, and we had to rebuild this line. There were no tracks through to Nyanga, so it was completely rebuilt.”
-EWN
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