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Despite the Department of Transport’s (DoT’s) long-standing vision to achieve seamless integration of all modal public transport operations to ensure that it is more efficient, affordable, safe and reliable, Unitrans senior business development manager Bazil Govender says progress is not being made quickly enough. “We’ve had these discussions with various iterations of government, different administrations, different public ministers, but we are not making the kind of progress, and at the pace needed, towards achieving that goal,” he said during a Unitrans-hosted Transport Forum webinar on June 6, where challenges and opportunities facing the passenger road-based transportation sector of South Africa were discussed by various experts.

A lack of appropriate combination with regard to metropolitan public transport systems has actually caused duplications and ineffectiveness, with some paths and locations being overserved while others experience a complete absence of service, Aecom Africa transportation operations leader and market sector leader transit executive Chris Britz has stated. Speaking throughout a Unitrans-hosted Transport Forum webinar on June 6, where difficulties and opportunities facing the guest road-based transportation sector of South Africa were discussed by different professionals, he said South Africa’s public transportation was inefficient because of the fragmented nature of the everyday operations.