City’s Transport Dept ready to implement tuk-tuk vehicles

Mbasa Gqokoma

21 April 2016

The City of Cape Town’s Transport department says residents and visitors to Cape Town will soon be able to make use of tuk-tuk vehicles to travel short distances within the city and surrounding suburbs.

The tender for the provision of tuk-tuk public transport services was issued on Friday 15 April 2016 by Transport for Cape Town, the City’s transport authority.

Mayoral Committee Member for Transport, Brett Herron explains…..

“The tuk-tuk vehicle are intended for those wanting to travel short distances of 3km’s or less to local destinations”.

He says “The people who will make use of the tuk-tuk services are those who do not necessarily want to make use of metre taxi services, and who do not want to walk 3km’s to their destination”.