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Gautrain users will pay R10 more to get to the OR Tambo International Airport under a fare increase announced on Friday by Bombela, the company which runs the high-speed trains.
The current prices for airport-service fares range from R125 to R145 depending on the length of the journey.
The current prices for airport-service fares range from R125 to R145 depending on the length of the journey.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Gautrain fares up
Gautrain users will pay R10 more to get to the OR Tambo International Airport under a fare increase announced on Friday by Bombela, the company which runs the high-speed trains.
The current prices for airport-service fares range from R125 to R145 depending on the length of the journey.
Bombela said all fares would increase by between five and 16 percent, with incentives for off-peak travel under a multi-tiered fare structure called Gausave, which was being introduced on June 1.
It would consist of red, orange, and green travel periods. Red was peak-hour, orange intermediate, and green off-peak.
The red fare would apply to travel between 6.30am and 7.30am on weekdays from Pretoria to Johannesburg, and from OR Tambo International Airport to Johannesburg, but not in the opposite direction. This type of fare would increase up to 16 percent.
The orange fare was for other travel between 6am and 8.30am, between 3.30pm and 6pm on weekdays, and all day on weekends and public holidays. This would increase by between about five and nine percent.
The green fare was for trips before 6am, between 8.30am and 3.30pm, and after 6pm on any weekday.
A passenger buying a pay-as-you-go ticket for a single trip from Hatfield Station in Pretoria to Park Station in the Johannesburg CBD -- the longest possible trip on the Gautrain -- would pay R68 during the red peak period, R62 during the orange period, and R49 during the green off-peak period, said Bombela operations executive Errol Braithwaite.
Bus fares for train users would remain unchanged.
The daily parking tariff would increase R3, from R15 to R18, for one to 24-hours. Longer stay periods would cost more. A three-day stay would go up from R100 to R110.
Braithwaite said off-peak discounts were meant as an incentive for off-peak travel and to encourage commuters to try and travel outside busy periods.
He said the company offered regular commuters a 35-day ticket (44 trips) at about a 24 percent discount, and a seven day ticket (10 trips) at a discount of about 17 percent on the red peak period fare.
Weekday use of the Gautrain regularly exceeded 56,000 passengers, and that bus use was regularly above 22,000 people a day.
An extra eight-carriage train was introduced in April to cope with demand and more were in the pipeline.
Fare tables are available on www.gautrain.co.za.
Source : Sapa /jje/jk/cls
Date : 16 May 2014 11:49
Gautrain users will pay R10 more to get to the OR Tambo International Airport under a fare increase announced on Friday by Bombela, the company which runs the high-speed trains.
The current prices for airport-service fares range from R125 to R145 depending on the length of the journey.
Bombela said all fares would increase by between five and 16 percent, with incentives for off-peak travel under a multi-tiered fare structure called Gausave, which was being introduced on June 1.
It would consist of red, orange, and green travel periods. Red was peak-hour, orange intermediate, and green off-peak.
The red fare would apply to travel between 6.30am and 7.30am on weekdays from Pretoria to Johannesburg, and from OR Tambo International Airport to Johannesburg, but not in the opposite direction. This type of fare would increase up to 16 percent.
The orange fare was for other travel between 6am and 8.30am, between 3.30pm and 6pm on weekdays, and all day on weekends and public holidays. This would increase by between about five and nine percent.
The green fare was for trips before 6am, between 8.30am and 3.30pm, and after 6pm on any weekday.
A passenger buying a pay-as-you-go ticket for a single trip from Hatfield Station in Pretoria to Park Station in the Johannesburg CBD -- the longest possible trip on the Gautrain -- would pay R68 during the red peak period, R62 during the orange period, and R49 during the green off-peak period, said Bombela operations executive Errol Braithwaite.
Bus fares for train users would remain unchanged.
The daily parking tariff would increase R3, from R15 to R18, for one to 24-hours. Longer stay periods would cost more. A three-day stay would go up from R100 to R110.
Braithwaite said off-peak discounts were meant as an incentive for off-peak travel and to encourage commuters to try and travel outside busy periods.
He said the company offered regular commuters a 35-day ticket (44 trips) at about a 24 percent discount, and a seven day ticket (10 trips) at a discount of about 17 percent on the red peak period fare.
Weekday use of the Gautrain regularly exceeded 56,000 passengers, and that bus use was regularly above 22,000 people a day.
An extra eight-carriage train was introduced in April to cope with demand and more were in the pipeline.
Fare tables are available on www.gautrain.co.za.
Source : Sapa /jje/jk/cls
Date : 16 May 2014 11:49
"Bombela said all fares would increase by between five and 16 percent, with incentives for off-peak travel under a multi-tiered fare structure called Gausave, which was being introduced on June 1."
"The daily parking tariff would increase R3, from R15 to R18, for one to 24-hours. Longer stay periods would cost more. A three-day stay would go up from R100 to R110."
R15 - R18 is an increase of 20%. Are these guys really capable of running such a critical public infrastructure if they can't even do basic math?
"The daily parking tariff would increase R3, from R15 to R18, for one to 24-hours. Longer stay periods would cost more. A three-day stay would go up from R100 to R110."
R15 - R18 is an increase of 20%. Are these guys really capable of running such a critical public infrastructure if they can't even do basic math?
Increase the parking capacity at stations, make the bus routes more convenient for customers, and offcourse increase the capacity of the carriages and lengthen the operating hours, and what do you know : we might just have a viable alternative for travel !
True that, not so many to protest against it because the gautrain is just not accessible to many of us and therefore we dont use it
Jola
Honorary Master
The airport price is a bit of a rip-off, if you get off at the station just before the airport (a few 100 metres away), it is only a fraction of the price.
I sometimes take the car (or another alternative) because it works out cheaper, especially if you are more than one person travelling.
Also, the limited operational hours often makes the Gautrain not viable for airport travel. I usually leave earlier and come back later than the Gautrain operating hours.
The fact that the buses have poor routes to the Gautrain stations, and that the taxis operate a cartel from the Gautrain stations does not help. (They charge double from the stations, and refuse to use the meter).
I sometimes take the car (or another alternative) because it works out cheaper, especially if you are more than one person travelling.
Also, the limited operational hours often makes the Gautrain not viable for airport travel. I usually leave earlier and come back later than the Gautrain operating hours.
The fact that the buses have poor routes to the Gautrain stations, and that the taxis operate a cartel from the Gautrain stations does not help. (They charge double from the stations, and refuse to use the meter).
I wish I'd known that last month. We had half a day to kill but it ended up being cheaper to get a day room at the airport city lodge than it would have been to take the missus and kids into the city.
R13...
Honorary Master
I thought the airport route is priced that way because it is non-stop? And it's a premium service of sorts.
Jola
Honorary Master
Problem is to get to Rhodesfield station, it is very close but you have to cross some highways.
Easily walkable distance from the airport, just not sure whether it is possible to walk to it. From there to Sandton would be just over R20.
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Jola
Honorary Master
No, it still stops at all stations, you are just not allowed to get on/off, and the carriages are not premium, they are the same as the other carriages.
It is just a rip-off !
Because of the pricing, and the limited times, I usually just take my car.
OrbitalDawn
Ulysses Everett McGill
Yeah, they have bigger seats and space for your luggage as well, don't they?
R13...
Honorary Master
I have never been in an airport car, maybe Jola can elaborate sounds like he's more versed.
Maybe dodging traffic with kids and their luggage isn't the best idea.
Jola
Honorary Master
Seats are the same, may be a bit more luggage space, but luggage space is still very limited. Not really different from the normal carriages.
Definitely not a premium service, I don't use it if I can help it. And usually the travel times prevent me from using it anyway.
And as I mentioned. you still have to add taxi fares from the station to your home, and the taxis run a cartel on that, so it is often cheaper to use another alternative.
Jola
Honorary Master
Maybe dodging traffic with kids and their luggage isn't the best idea.
Yes, just not sure if there are walkways, but I sort of doubt that, South Africa is not good with stuff like that.
But put it this way, AB de Villiers could hit a cricket ball from the Airport Station to Rhodesfield station - and for the privilege of travelling that distance you cough up about R100 per person.
Tell me it's not a rip-off
