Metrorail on track for two more years of misery
(World News South Africa)

Cape Town - Metrorail commuters will have to put up with delayed and overcrowed trains for at least another two years before some sort of normality returns to the city`s buckling rail transport system. Metrorail officials have outlined their turnaround strategy for the system that is on the verge of collapse in the Western Cape. Scenes of commuters hanging out of excessively full train carriages or standing at packed stations with no train in sight have become a norm in recent years. Operators have been battling to run a service on the three main rail lines meant to service thousands of commuters on a daily basis. Metrorail regional manager Richard Walker, speaking to the provincial...