Gautrain in decline

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Gautrain in decline

The most recently available Gautrain figures show that passenger numbers are still down almost 50% compared to the pre-pandemic period.

Modelling, forecasting, and reporting firm Codera Analytics recently published a chart summarising the Gautrain’s passenger figures since 2010.

 

[Fuzzbox]

Transport should be used for necessity and not profit.
break even at least
Eskum in the same boat and only getting worse

 

[Corelli]

Honestly this line would work much better on the Cape Town to Simonstown line. The Cape Town to Franschoek side. And the Cape Town to Langebaan route.

 

[RaptorSA]

"However, they seem to have long since given up on this fight, and much of the intimidation and violence no longer even make headlines"

Violence and crime once again killing any inkling of progress.
No amount of expansion and discounts will work if you don't go full El Salvador on crime, and that's not going to happen.
RIP to yet another good idea buried under a honeypot for demons.

P.S. Meanwhile, the metro police and their flashy cars have devolved into nothing but a highway off-ramp cash extraction fleet around Joburg, at least that was my experience this weekend after not having travelled around the larger JHB area for a long time.

“While the province claims this expansion will create 125,000 jobs, we must ask: at what cost?”
“Authorities are pushing forward with an extravagant R120 billion expansion"



So even if you did manage to create 125K Jobs that's a taxpayer funded extraction of R960,000 per job created, for a system that's losing money and will continue to do so. I'm not against tax funded public transport, but this is like buying as a sports car so the tea lady can get to work and back each day.

 

[mpdjhb]

Gautrain works well. Just stop ripping us off on the airport route please.
And a service cannot "lose money". Its a service. We dont say the police service "loses money".
If the train were not there the money would be spent elsewhere - like roads or RAF etc.

 

[Hemi300c]

The geniuses planned the Gautrain for the masses attending soccer games.
They never planned it for the economic backbone using it instead of sitting in the Pta/Jhb traffic.

The stations in Pta and some other places are just wrong.
Pretoria station - a shyte show
Hatfield - a nightmare

 

[Ϲhristopher]

The geniuses planned the Gautrain for the masses attending soccer games.
They never planned it for the economic backbone using it instead of sitting in the Pta/Jhb traffic.

The stations in Pta and some other places are just wrong.
Pretoria station - a shyte show
Hatfield - a nightmare

Pricing and the lack of integration with other forms of public transport are big issues. It's probably wishful thinking, but a daily price cap across all public transport (Gautrain/Metrorail/busses) would be awesome. We don't really have the population density to justify more closely spaced stations though.

I still think the Gautrain was a dumb idea, spending the money on improving Metorail would have been a better option.