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However, there will be a 15% discount for off-peak travelers - a significant incentive for many commuters, says Gautrain. The off-peak travel discount will apply to commuter service passengers that use the train service during weekdays before 06h00, between 09h00 and 15h00, or after 18h00.

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Bus fares will remain unchanged.

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So these are challenges that we’re faced with, of course we’re very delighted to have the challenge of heavy demand, as opposed to the reverse but there are a few things that we need to do. Obviously we’ve already on several different occasions put additional trains into the system, we can only do that I think once or twice more and then we will have run out of rolling stock capacity during peak periods. Also we’re beginning to run into situations where we can’t run trains at closer frequencies because of constraints on the signaling system and, of course, as you go further south in the system we’ve got a single tunnel between Sandton, Rosebank and Park Station and all of those trains have to pass each other at Rosebank Station and, of course, the trip duration in between means that you can only run trains at given frequencies. So the sorts of things that we’re going to be doing going forward apart from, of course, looking at possibly purchasing additional train sets and upgrading signaling systems and perhaps even building a second tunnel is looking to try and manage the ridership pattern to some extent as well. So for instance one of the things that we hope to be implementing before long is an incentive fare to encourage people to travel during the off peak times.

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