Cape Town's 'ghost trains' leave DA leaders steaming
26 October 2018
Three DA leaders' plan to join Cape Town's train commuters was derailed on Monday morning.
City of Cape Town's incoming mayor Dan Plato, mayoral committee member for social services and safety and security JP Smith and DA chief whip John Steenhuisen met at 06:00 at Mitchells Plain train station to catch a train to Cape Town to inspect the safety conditions in the run-up to the deployment of additional safety officers on the trains by the City, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa and the Western Cape government.
But what they found was a virtual "ghost station".
For an hour, they waited in vain for a train.