*Day 45: “we have been forgotten”*
Today, Monday 15 July, is the 45th consecutive day that the MyCiTi services to residents of Mitchell’s Plain and Khayelithsa have been stopped.
It is almost 5 years to the day since my team and I launched the MyCiTi N2 Express service in July 2014.
Over the past few years of providing MyCiTi services to Khayelitsha and Mitchell’s Plain, we have encountered occasional operational problems, such as vandalism, occasional sabotage of our buses and strikes.
However, we always did our utmost to ensure services, or to rapidly restore interrupted services, to keep the almost 6,000 commuters using this service daily on the move.
Now, for six weeks, we have heard no plan, and no alternative, for the thousands of workers and learners who depend on this public transport to get to work or school and back.