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Cape metrorail

What it’s like riding the Cape Town Metrorail train

By Abigail Javier

With the return to office, full-time learning reinstated and petrol price increases, the reliance on public trains has increased. Eyewitness News took a trip on...

  • Metrorail train in Cape Town. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Delays, crime and hardly any space: Capetonians' daily train commutes are tough

    Thousands of commuters in Cape Town use trains to get to work and school, travelling on the northern, southern, central and Cape Flats lines.

    92 days ago
  • The Philippi train station has been vandalised, with criminals stealing just about everything. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    Prasa trying to get Cape Town's central line up and running again

    Thousands of people are still occupying the train tracks in Langa and Phillipi.

    111 days ago
  • Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula during his inspection tour of Cape Town's railway infrastructure on 17 January 2022. Picture: @MbalulaFikile/Twitter

    Mbalula confident CT's central line will be fully operational by end of July

    The central line has not been in operation since October 2019.

    121 days ago
  • Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula during his inspection tour of railway infrastructure in Cape Town on 17 January 2022. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    Cape Town set to get new trains soon - Mbalula

    Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said that four more new train sets were expected to be rolled onto the city's railway lines in the coming months.

    122 days ago
  • A Metrorail train in Cape Town. Picture: Metrorail.

    City of Cape Town offers R5,000 reward for information on train vandals

    Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said the city has been without a well-functioning rail service for too long and far too many Capetonians suffer as a result.

    128 days ago
  • Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis announced the city’s new Mayoral Committee. Picture: Kevin Brandt/Eyewitness News

    CT's new mayoral committee sets sights on ending power cuts, poverty

    Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis unveiled his team on Monday, saying that members had a strong mandate from residents to end power cuts in the city over time, to invest more into community safety and to fight for greater control over passenger rail in the metro.

    177 days ago
  • The informal settlement of Lockdown has sprung up on and around the Metrorail's central line in Philippi, Cape Town. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    DA aims to resuscitate CT's rail network with help of private investment

    Cape Town mayoral candidate Geordin Hill-Lewis on Thursday briefed the media at the Woodstock train station where the party pledged its commitment to making public transport work by fighting for control over railways and expanding the MyCiTi bus service.

    216 days ago
  • A Metrorail train station in Cape Town. Picture: Regan Thaw/EWN

    Damage to CT rail infrastructure caused by latest vandalism at R1m - Metrorail

    As a result, Metrorail can't run services on the southern line, specifically between Retreat and Fish Hoek.

    219 days ago
  • Cape Town's taxi hub in the CBD on 1 June 2020. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    Winde: Current state of WC's public transport preventing economy from growing

    Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said that a single transport authority was needed.

    414 days ago
  • A Metrorail train arrives at Langa station as Prasa resumed operation on Cape Town's central line on 15 February 2021. Picture: @PRASA_Group/Twitter

    CT central line to be fully operational by end of year - Prasa's Ramatlakane

    Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) board chairperson Leonard Ramatlakane said that it was critical to get trains running again on the line.

    414 days ago
  • A Metrorail train arrives at Langa station as Prasa resumed operation on Cape Town's central line on 15 February 2021. Picture: @PRASA_Group/Twitter

    Prasa resumes rail operations on Cape Town's central line

    Operations resumed between Cape Town and Langa after a disruptive suspension caused by vandalism, cable theft and settlements on the tracks.

    458 days ago
  • Picture: 123rf.com

    Metrorail in WC reports 76% drop in crime in rail precincts

    This follows a number of joint security enforcement operations ahead of the festive season.

    524 days ago
  • Cape Town train station. Picture: @CapeTownTrains/Twitter.

    Prasa in WC works with neighbourhood watches to combat rail vandalism, theft

    The acting regional manager of Prasa Raymond Maseko said under level 5, Prasa technicians were not working because there were no trains in operation.

    576 days ago
  • Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula. Picture: Twitter/@GovernmentZA

    Mbalula: Work is under way to get Cape Town's rail network back on track

    The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) is investing over R1 billion to repair the line.

    576 days ago
  • FILE: A Metrorail train arrives at the Cape Town station. Picture: @CapeTownTrains/Twitter

    Prasa’s rail infrastructure security measures inadequate, says WC DA

    The party’s Daylin Mitchell said he had written to provincial Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela to give more details on just how bad the problem was.

    611 days ago
  • FILE: Metrorail's physical distance markers. Picture:: Metrorail.

    CT Metrorail temporarily suspends services over power supply issues

    'Commuters are advised to make use of alternative transport for the morning peak and we will update as events unfold,' said Metrorail's Riana Scott as she apologised for the inconvenience.

    623 days ago
  • Cape Town train station. Picture: @CapeTownTrains/Twitter.

    CT train service resumes after overhead power restored

    This morning, trains operating between Cape Town and Retreat were suspended following damage to overhead power supply systems as a result of severe weather conditions.

    675 days ago
  • FILE: A Metrorail train platform at Cape Town station. Picture: Kevin Brandt/EWN

    Fierce winds see Metrorail suspend CT service

    Metrorail said that parts of what could be a roof were blown onto a section of the tracks between Mowbray and Rosebank.

    675 days ago
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