Question NW2295 to the Minister of Transport
10 December 2021 - NW2295
Hunsinger, Mr CH to ask the Minister of Transport
(1)What total amount of Bus Rapid Transit System funding did the SA National Roads Agency (Sanral) transfer to each of the 13 cities in the past three financial years; (2) what total amount has been paid by Sanral to a certain company (name furnished) since the beginning of their engagement, distinguishing between (a) contract agreement and (b) operational agreement payments?
Reply:
1. The SA National Roads Agency (SANRAL) mandate does not include public transport, as such SANRAL has not made any Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System funding transfers to any of 13 cities in the past three financial years.
2. SANRAL has made payments to Electronic Toll Collection (Pty) Ltd, (ETC), in which Kapsch TrafficCom (Sweden and Austria) has 25% direct shareholding, for the development of an Account Based Ticketing (ABT) module as part of the SANRAL Transaction Clearing House (TCH) system to enable pilot projects to commence at selected cities. The Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) systems of the BRT’s will interface to the SANRAL ABT module for account hosting and transaction processing.
a) The amount that was paid to date to ETC for the ABT module project is R1,711,282.65, excluding VAT for development and integration of the module on the SANRAL TCH.
b) No operational costs have been incurred to date as the project is still in the development stages and has not gone operational