Taxi Drivers Call for Full BRT Ownership

Representatives of South Africa's minibus taxi industry are demanding full ownership over the new bus rapid transit systems being developed.

"Government must allow the taxi industry to own BRT in its entirety," National Taxi Alliance secretary-general Alpheus Mlalazi said at a press briefing in Johannesburg.

The taxi industry had developed the routes the BRT system was targeting, he claimed.

BRT: Taxi industry demand ownership
Independent Online
June 23, 2009