Public Transport in the City of Cape Town

The City of Cape Town's vision for public transport, as outlined in the Public Transport Plan (PTP), is to provide a "safe, effective, efficient, equitable and affordable public transport system that supports sustainable, social and economic development in an environmentally responsible manner."  This vision supports that of the City's Integrated Transport Plan (ITP), the framework of which is based on sustainable transport.  In addition, it is aligned with the key strategies of the City's Integrated Development Plan.

The City is moving towards an integrated public transport system and it's key thrusts include the following:

• Major investment as a top priority in the rail system focusing on the priority corridors as identified in the City's Rail Framework and the Regional Rail Plan
• Development of rapid mass road-based public transport services on priority high volume corridors which are not served by rail, in support of an integrated network of rail
• Transformation of the interim contract into a tendered or negotiated contract to include contracts for services on the mass road-based corridors as the priority corridors
• Development of a unified road based scheduled service brining the bus and taxi market into a unified service under contract using the appropriate vehicle size for financial and operation efficiencies
• Recapitalisation of the bus fleet into a modern fleet to comply with the tender contract requirements
• Introduction of recapitalised taxi vehicles as part of the restructuring public transport system where it services as the optimum vehicle size
• Introduction of an Integrated Fare Management System across all three modes - bus, taxi and rail
• Development of the non-motorised transport network to integrate with the rail and bus priority networks
• Uniform branding of all public transport
• Increased security on public transport.

Both the Public Transport Plan and the Integrated Transport Plan can downloaded from the City's website: www.capetown.gov.za.  Comments on these documents are welcome and can be forwarded to Ms Lisle Nel, Transport Planning, PO Box 1649, Cape Town, 8000 or This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .