NEWS
At last! Complete coverage of Gauteng
W
estward Ho! It's
taken us 17 years
to do so, but the
Gauteng Smallholder's
distribution area now covers
the whole of Gauteng,
following our addition last
month of Carletonville,
Fochville and Westonarea to
our network.
For many years our distribution area ended with the
smallholding areas just west of
Randfontein and, to the
south, with the smallholding
areas between van der Bijl
Park and the N1 highway,
leaving, effectively, the southwesterly quadrant of the
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distance to work because of
the highly subsidised buses,"
he says.
"The railway will only benefit
the people providing the
rolling stock and the rail line."
Transport analyst Paul
Browning says while it is
understandable that the
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province unserved. By our
assigning copies to suitable
outlets in the western towns,
farmers and smallholders in
this region can now also enjoy
copies of the magazine.
For the moment residents in
this region should look out for
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government wants to build a
railway in the corridor, it
would emphasise apartheid
spatial planning by continuing
to have people travel 80km
just to get to work.
He adds that operating costs
are unlikely to be met by
revenue from fares as the
service would largely be for
low-income workers.
"One has to ask how likely it is
that there will be developments along the corridor," he
adds.
K Among the purchases
necessary for the new line will
be new standard gauge rolling
stock, and the much-discussed
Afro4000 diesel electric
locomotives bought by Prasa
from Spain and which have
been shown to be too tall for
South Africa's rail network will
be unable to run on the new
track as they have been
constructed to run on Cape
gauge track, rather than the
wider standard gauge mooted
for the new link (for which,
ironically the Afro4000's
original design, the Euro3000
and 4000, was designed).