The intro of the story we ran on the return of passenger rail services to Soweto yesterday said it all: we have been down this route before. Making the news once again was a promise by the powers that be, again, about resuming services that should never have been allowed to stop in the first place.
The occasion was the reopening of the key rail corridor from Pretoria central to Pienaarspoort (in Mamelodi), to the east of the city. The reopening of this corridor follows on the heels of the Pretoria-Mabopane route which was relaunched to similar fanfare earlier this year. ..
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