Opportunity is ripe to broaden Joburg's Rea Vaya bus network

BRT system has empowered and transformed taxi industry

02 November 2021 - 08:42
By Mochele Noge

If a measure of BEE is based on ownership and economic transformation, we can green tick the PioTrans model. It is based on Johannesburg’s Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system, which resulted in the formalisation of a tenuous cohabitation of sole proprietorships into a corporate entity providing real shareholding for 299 taxi owners and providing formal and permanent employment for their drivers.

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