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Construction to start later this year on A Re Yeng lines 2B, 2C

Construction to start later this year on A Re Yeng lines 2B, 2C

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8th May 2015

By: Megan van Wyngaardt

Creamer Media Contributing Editor Online

  

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Construction on Line 2B of Pretoria’s A Re Yeng bus rapid transit (BRT) system will start in August, while construction on Line 2C will start in November, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters has revealed.

Line 2B will run between Hatfield and Menlyn and Line 2C between Menlyn and Denneboom, in Mamelodi.

In a written Parliamentary reply to the Demo- cratic Alliance’s Manny de Freitas, Peters revealed that construction on the two lines would be completed by June 2017.

The Line 2B route will be about 7 km long and operate along Lynwood road, from Loftus Versfeld station, in Hatfield. It will further proceed east through Hillcrest until turning right at Atterbury road towards Menlyn and intersecting with Lois avenue.

Extending from Menlyn to Denneboom station, through January Masilela road, Lynnwood road and Simon Vermooten road, Line 2C will be 11 km long.

The R2.6-billion BRT system will extend from Kopanong, in Soshanguve, through the Rainbow Junction, through the central business district (CBD) and continue to Menlyn, with a branch line to Hatfield, ending in Mamelodi.

The first stage of the A Re Yeng operations is the Inception phase, also 7 km long. It extends from the CBD in the west, to Hatfield in the east, through Sunnyside and connects to the Gautrain station in Hatfield.

There are seven stations along the route, two in the CBD, three in Sunnyside, one at Loftus Versfeld and one in Hatfield.

Once completed, the system will comprise 80 km of bus lines and 62 stations. The buses will run from 05:00 until 00:00 at two to four minute intervals during peak periods, and seven to ten minutes during off-peak periods.

Pretoria is the fourth city in South Africa with a BRT system, joining the City of Johannesburg, the City of Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Bay municipality.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Online Managing Editor

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