I am one of Metrorail's customers, maybe that is not the right word because if I was a customer I wouldn't be treated like this, Rephrase that I am one of the people that always use Metrorail to and from work every day. I am very dissappointed at their so called new improved train timetables for Cape Town. According to what I heard {protecting my sources} this new timetable is supposed to come with improvements, more trains added, and transport as a whole being more convinient especially during peak hours. I will not try and talk on behalf of Western Cape people, or even Cape Town people but I will only comment about what I know and have experienced in my route to work from Bellville to Cape Town. For starters in the so called improved new timetable they have stopped the "Express" trains, some might not be familiar with this terminology yase trainini (if you are one of those - express trains are those that do not stop in all stations but stop in main stations only, some call it special). Anywho, I was still mourning about ii-trains. All trains that pass Parow station which is where I catch my train are all stations, and I've been told this happens all the time during winter so there must be a good reason that someone has to do such a thing, but I would also love to know what the reason is. As far as I can see it does not look like there are any added trains in that line especially in the morning. In the mornings we are all crambed into these courages [amakhareji] full, with lots of people standing in the passages, and these trains will stop in all the stations although there is no space for people to come in, if you have not been to a train hear it from me it is very uncomfortable to stand in the passage kulamakhareji ka-first class. Can Metrorail try something else a more working timetable please. Some people have cars but because they are responsible citizens they prefer to use public transport so that they do not contribute to the heavy traffic and air pollution which is caused by carbon emission from the cars.
While still on it, I really hate those blue and yellow trains that are used in the Simon's town route they are really not comfortable. They look very nice from outside but the minute you are inside they are bad. Hope they are not making more of these.
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Understand that a lot of us black folk are really lazy. If there is any black oak in management, chances are he has a Benz Ml, a BMW X5 or some fancy car, they never use these trains, and they have never been in those trains. Without being irrelevant people relate better to bad situations they have been in to do something about them
2009-01-31 Cape Town Station has a Third World female toilet featuring 3 pictures on a sign showing 1) you may not shit on the floor, 2) nor shit squatting on the toilet rim 3) you must sit properly & shit. Trains stop at pathetically identifiable stations.2010 soccer visitors will wonder if they are in Cape Town or Ape Town. Decent standards are a historic memory.
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