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Shock new numbers show how SAâs train service went off the rails â even before Covid hit Mar 06, 2021, 04:47 PM
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A national survey - conducted last year, before the start of the pandemic - showed that the passenger train service is the least used mode of public transport in South Africa.
The number of people who regularly used trains dropped by 80% since 2013.
The average time of a trip on a train has increased by 45% over the past eight years to 107 minutes.
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The total number of daily train commuters in South Africa has dropped to its lowest level on record since the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), compiled by Statistics SA, was first introduced in 2003.
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