What an inconvenience!!! Firstly, the busses are striking illegally, which upsets me even more and secondly the taxis have commenced with another strike crippling public transport commuters.
My public transport preference is the Golden Arrow Bus service, so I usually buy a weekly clip card. This clip card has a date in which this clip card expires. Due to the busses illegally striking this morning I wasn’t able to use my clip card and have now lost out on a ride. This is an inconvenience as I had to pay to take a taxi – the only one that came in a time period of 35 minutes and was forced to sit on a crate just to ensure that I make it to work!
These strikes are disheartening as the City of Cape Town is trying to promote public transport to create a better traffic flow during peak times, but these strikes are just not helping. What happens when 2010 comes? Are we going to be sitting with the same problem? Public transport is going to play a major role in the success of the 2010 Soccer World Cup and I feel that we as South Africans should take more responsibility as this will influence and affect us all.
Besides being very frustrated I'm also disappointed at the fact that the law no longer instills fear in individuals and that people feel they have the right to illegally strike as well as strike using violence!!!
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