4 years later... Stellenbosch is back! - Metrorail
Stellenbosch’s 60 000 train commuters can finally catch the train again after four years of inoperability.
A Metrorail train at Cape Town station. Picture: @MetrorailWC/X
Lester Kiewit speaks with Raymond Maseko, Acting Regional Manager at Western Cape Metrorail.
Listen to the interview in the audio below.
The Eerste River/Stellenbosch lines are operational again.
Trains to and from Stellenbosch have been suspended since the COVID-19 pandemic, affecting roughly 60 000 commuters.
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The infrastructure was severely damaged during and after the lockdown, which Metrorail has been fixing over the past few months.
The line is back with a limited service, meaning a train will come every half an hour, or every hour.
“We had some teething problems. Finally, my team and I have been able to clear all of those.”
- Raymond Maseko, Acting regional manager - Western Cape Metrorail
According to Maseko, the vandalism was so severe in the Western Cape that only 14 of the 121 train stations were operational after the hard lockdown.
Metrorail has since recovered 101 of those stations.
Scroll up to the audio player to listen to the interview.