Service agreement paves way for surburban rail devolution in Cape Town

ollowing months of negotiations, the city of Cape Town and Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa signed a Service Level Plan on December 4 which Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said would ‘lay the foundation for future rail devolution’.

The SLP is intended to ensure regular, accurate progress reporting from Prasa about the delivery of suburban rail services in Western Cape. The city will exercise oversight over the annual performance plan commitments to revitalise stations, introduce more trainsets, recommission more services and improve the number of daily passengers and services operated.

‘This is a big step towards improving the quality and reliability of the service through a legally binding agreement, and I am very pleased that we managed to get this finalised this year’, Hill-Lewis said.

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