Proposed Public Transport Priority Leadership in Public Transport - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

City of Ekurhuleni Proposed Public Transport Priority Leadership in Public Transport for Spatial Transformation Yolisa Mashilwane HOD: Transport Planning Yolisa.mashilwane@ekurhuleni.gov.za

Contents 1. Ekurhuleni in context 2. Issues and Challenges 3. High Priority Intervention 4. Financial and Institutional mechanisms. Confidential

PROBLEM STATEMENT • 9 Disconnected towns – EMM is a typically polycentric city; • Limited access to PT (Rail and Buses) in particular in the previously disadvantaged communities where unemployment is also high; • High dependence on Private Vehicles; • Limited coverage of our own Municipal Buses and • An un-integrated Municipal Bus service.

Main Mode Of Transport - All Trips

% OF TRANSPORT PROBLEMS PER ISSUE

MAIN REASONS FOR NOT USING BUS

Destination Of Motorised Trips Starting In Tembisa School Company Destination All Train Bus Taxi Car bus transport Alberton 100 100 Bedfordview-Edenvale 3 500 1 600 1 400 500 Benoni 1 250 800 300 50 100 Boksburg 3 700 2 000 1 000 400 300 Brakpan 400 400 Daveyton 300 300 Duduza 104 104 Ekurhuleni East Ekurhuleni North 5 700 200 3 000 2 300 200 Etwatwa Germiston 4 600 1 900 2 000 500 200 Katlehong 600 400 200 Kempton Park 35 300 13 600 9 200 8 700 2 000 1 800 Kwa Thema 200 200 Nigel Springs Tembisa (Internal Trips) 37 000 800 700 21 200 12 800 700 800 Thokoza Tsakane 200 200 Vosloorus COJ 23 300 3 500 12 500 6 200 1 100 Tshwane 7 900 4 000 2 500 1 200 100 100

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PLAN • Rail is the backbone of system in particular E-W. • BRT system main mode for the N/S of EMM. • Increased provision of Non-Motorised Transport infrastructure. We have a lot of internal movements within each town. • Extension of Municipal bus services in other areas. • Within next 10 to 15 years, 85% of population to be within 1km of Rail, BRT of Feeder station/stop .

Full network plan - phasing 7 trunk routes will be Trunks Phase 1 - 5 implemented over a number of years, in 5 phases, Golden Triangle depending on design, financial, operational and City boundary other considerations. Phase 1 Rail Main PRASA lines Phase 5 Phase 4 Phase 2 Phase 3

Phase 1 Trunk 1 Feeders Direct/Limited stop Rail Links-City of Joburg City boundary Depots – Tembisa, 3 2 Kempton Park and Vosloorus. 27 Articulated buses 105 Standard buses 3 min headways in peak Total of 37 000 trips per day on full system 2

Germiston Intermodal facility Proposed New Multi-Level (2 Storey) Intermodal on PRASA Land, on-grade Long Distance Taxi Rank on EMM Land Long Distance Taxi Rank- EMM LAND EMM LAND Taxi Rank- PRASA LAND SITE BOUNDARY Market Square LINE Pedestrianize New Short Plantation Distance Bus Road Terminal HOLDING FACILITIES TO BE PROVIDED OFF SITE NEW FOOD NEW RETAIL 2 LEVEL TAXI RANK COURT

What is our plan? Proposed Intervention- What is our plan? • Extension of Municipal Bus services in areas not planned for BRT and Rail interventions 80 new green buses over the next two years • Integrate the bus services including the BRT system to try and establish a City-wide network with each mode assigned to a relevant corridor. • Extensively construct NMT is areas where internal movements are very high e.g. Kempton Park.

What is our plan continued……. • Conclude on the institutional arrangements for our Municipal bus services - One service is operated internally and the other as a private company. • The IRPTN structure must be responsive to the metro’s PT needs both for planning and implementation. • Look for possible resources for funding the municipal buses outside the Metro’s budget – possibly collaborate with other Metros in Gauteng. • Run a parallel process for implementing PT solutions in the N/S;E/W and the rest of EMM . If possible all options must be operationalised by 2015/16 at the latest 2016/17.

LESSONS LEARNT Lessons learnt: • Gauteng as a global city region needs to engage more to find common solutions to common challenges; • The importance of partnering with the Private Sector; • The CCID – IT WORKS!!!!! • The institutional arrangements still need a lot of work – Are we creating responsive structures e.g. Transport Authorities. • Where planning is necessary , let it be done thoroughly with focus but where all is needed is logic and common sense let us go in and implement.

SUPPORT REQUIRED • Continuous sharing of information with other Metros; • Technical support; • Confirmation of long term funding; • Centralisation of information and knowledge management.