The MyCiTi bus service is planning to move from a flat fare rate to distance-based fares by March.
|||Cape Town - The MyCiTi bus service is planning to move from a flat fare rate to distance-based fares by March.
Councillor Brett Herron, mayoral committee member for transport, has allayed commuters’ fears that this will translate into more expensive trips, saying the system would be “much more fair”.
“This (new) system charges the user according to the distance he or she travels and allows connections from one route to the other, as long as the journey is completed within two hours.
“The distance-based fare system will make it more affordable to use the MyCiTi bus for most people since the flat fare system doesn’t encourage short-distance travel,” Herron explained.
“For example, our lowest fare from Atlantis to Cape Town will be R8.70. Users on the trunk route from Table View are currently paying R10.60, regardless of whether they travel on the trunk all the way to the CBD or only to Milnerton,” Herron said.
The council on Wednesday approved the business plan for the next phase in the MyCiTi bus roll-out.
This will see the service extended to Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Dunoon.
Named the N2 Express Service, the route to Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain is due to start operating in December next year. The service forms part of the general second phase of MyCiTi, the Metro South East project.
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Cape Argus