Inter-city trains in SA: Would you use them?

[MartinGB]

Would you make use of an inter-city train system in South Africa?

 

[Priapus]

Nope. It would be too dangerous.

 

[Cius]

If it worked like Europe yes.

 

[3WA]

Isn't this what the Joburg-Pretoria line of the Gautrain is? Or are we going to be honest enough to call Pretoria what it is - a giant village?

 

[EL'Diablo]

Would you BURN an inter-city train system in South Africa?

Yes, yes i would

 

[Brian_G]

Dangerous for more than one reason.

 

[bwana]

High speed and up to European standards? Sure.

 

[RedViking]

Yes, but I dibs the top, front.

 

[Groggyme]

Other. If they were safe and policed and decently priced. There is nothing wrong with public transport. Just needs to be safe and reliable.

 

[SauRoNZA]

I’m confused.

We have these already and people use them all the time.

What’s with the future tense?

 

[supersunbird]

I’m confused.

We have these already and people use them all the time.

What’s with the future tense?

I thought passenger rail was barely running after the lockdowns, with much infrastructure having been stolen. So is everything running on schedule again?

 

[Harmonic]

If it worked like Europe's trains then yes. I think there's more chance of Jan rising from the grave and becoming the king of the republic than the ANC pulling off functioning public transport

 

[SauRoNZA]

I thought passenger rail was barely running after the lockdowns, with much infrastructure having been stolen. So is everything running on schedule again?

I don’t know for sure what is and isn’t running, but the entire statement/question seems very odd.

Trains are definitely running though, to what extent I can’t say for sure.

Not quite the same but my family took a train from Cape Town to Elgin for a day trip the other day so the infrastructure seems just fine on the mainlines.

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Seems fine enough in Cape Town.

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Fancy that, even live updates on Twitter.

https://x.com/metrorailwc?s=21&t=sTSBm2MEYWAwqm6hiDTDSg

 

[pinball wizard]

I thought passenger rail was barely running after the lockdowns, with much infrastructure having been stolen. So is everything running on schedule again?

We use the Gautrain at least weekly.

 

[supersunbird]

We use the Gautrain at least weekly.

The Gautrain has it's own infrastructure and is not intergrated with the rest of the rail network, I was talking about the general rail network.

 

[pinball wizard]

The Gautrain has it's own infrastructure and is not intergrated with the rest of the rail network, I was talking about the general rail network.

How would anyone glean that from Martin-Numbnuts-GB's opening gambit?

BTW, the Metrorail and Gautrain stations in Rhodesfield are are in the same building making transfer from one to the other seemless. I think a similar platform is in play in PTA Central.

 

[Tomtomtom]

I don’t know for sure what is and isn’t running, but the entire statement/question seems very odd.

The middle classes forgot that we have an inter-city rail network several decades ago. They're about as aware of it as your average gardener is aware of the CPT-JHB flight schedule.

Next question: "would you make use of a privately-run intra-city minibus transport system that beats ordinary road traffic?"

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Would you make use of an inter-city train system in South Africa?

Might as well ask if you would like to get raped, robbed, killed?

 

[WollieVerstege]

I don’t know for sure what is and isn’t running, but the entire statement/question seems very odd.

Trains are definitely running though, to what extent I can’t say for sure.

Not quite the same but my family took a train from Cape Town to Elgin for a day trip the other day so the infrastructure seems just fine on the mainlines.

****

Seems fine enough in Cape Town.

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Discover Cape Town train time schedules on the cttrains mobile site. Cttrains also provides train updates when they become available from Metrorail

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Fancy that, even live updates on Twitter.

https://x.com/metrorailwc?s=21&t=sTSBm2MEYWAwqm6hiDTDSg

That is intra-city and not inter-city, distinct difference

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

That is intra-city and not inter-city, distinct difference

errr, the Cape Town metropole ends at Somerset-West, Elgin (well Grabouw really) is a town distinct and separate, part of the Theewaterskloof municipality

so no, a train ride from Cape Town to Elgin is between, not within, i.e. inter

note also the cttrains schedules show destinations like Paarl, Wellington, Worcester, Malmesbury