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transport
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Not Your Average Gap Year: Middle Class American Kids Abandon Home To Become Train Hopping Vagrants [GALLERY]
06 May 2013 by Gabi October / No Comments
Author, Mike Brodie has spent years documenting the phenomenon of train hopping in the US, and he’s found that most train hoppers are middle class kids. Mike Brodie is one of them, Brodie left home when he was 17 years old and has never looked back.
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Public Outcry Reaches Fever Pitch As City Of Cape Town Removes Monarch Tuksi Company From The Streets
13 Mar 2013 by Gabi October / 16 Comments
The Monarch Tuksi Company’s has been taken off the road by the City of Cape Town. Brothers, James and Daniel Clarence are the founders of the Monarch Tuksi Company, with its fleet of 20 tuk-tuks. The Monarch Tuksi Company provides a one of a kind “private chauffeur co-operative and media business.” The arrival of the [...]
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Important Lady Gaga Cape Town Transport & Road Closures Information
03 Dec 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
Lady Gaga kicked off her South African tour on Friday night with a concert at Soweto’s FNB Stadium. This evening will see Mother Monster take to Cape Town Stadium. The Darkness will kick off the show, and gates are to open at 17:00.
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Monarch Tuksi’s Hit The Streets Of Cape Town
14 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
The Monarch Tuksi Company has recently launched a fleet of 10 Tuksi’s, or tuk-tuks, onto the streets of Cape Town.
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New Speed Plan Could See Western Cape Speed Limit Reduced
04 Sep 2012 by Steyn du Toit / 7 Comments
It seems Transport MEC Robin Carlisle is serious about curbing road deaths in the Western Cape. He is currently busy considering a raft of radical road-safety measures, including lowering the speed limit to 110km/h and a new law for motorists overtaking cyclists. All the details inside.
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Cape Town’s Buses Revealed To Be Running At A Loss
28 May 2012 by Simon Gerber / 1 Comment
We’ve by now all grown used to the shiny blue MyCiti busus, the glass stations, and the special strips of red tarmac especially reserved for them. The service, which has been running now for almost two years, was reported this morning to be running at a loss.
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Taxi Rank: New Mobile Web App For Cape Town
13 Jan 2012 by liam kruger / 2 Comments
Taxi Rank is a newly-launched web app that lets folks in Cape Town order cabs online or via smartphones – which isn’t in itself especially new or useful. What is pretty neat is that, once pick-up and drop-off points are specified, the service also provides estimated quotes by Cape Town’s various taxi companies, organized by price.
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Volkswagen Has A Car With Hands-Free Driving Now
27 Jun 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
VW are proposing a new technology that will allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel at speeds up to around 130km/h, and let the car’s system temporarily take over. Look, it isn’t exactly Knight Rider, but it’s good that VW’s looking after people who want to multitask while cruising down highways.
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6-Year-Old Girl Gets Thoroughly Patted Down At Airport To See If She Has Drugs [VIDEO]
13 Apr 2011 by Steyn du Toit / 4 Comments
Patting people down for a living must take a special kind of person. To see just how special, check out this video of a 6-year-old girl being searched EVERYWHERE for possible drugs. It is conducted by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employee – the people responsible for the safety on board public modes of transport in the US. They clearly take their job very seriously.
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Taxi Nightmare Continues For Cape Town Commuters
15 Mar 2011 by Janey Bee / No Comments
The nightmare continues for commuters throughout the Cape Town metropolitan area, due to continued striking by Santaco (the SA National Taxi Council). Violence re-erupted overnight when a bus was set alight and cars were stoned. Police are monitoring the situation but it’s still very hard to catch a taxi.
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