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| Parent | City of Cape Town |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2010 |
| Locale | City of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Service type | Bus rapid transit network |
| Routes | 36[1] |
| Daily ridership | 60,000 (November 2015)[1] |
| Website | myciti |
MyCiti is a bus rapid transit service with feeders, which forms part of a greater Integrated Public Transport driven economic development strategy of the City of Cape Town Municipality (CoCT) in South Africa.[2][3] The service is being rolled out across the Cape Metropole, and provides a significantly enhanced public transport system in about 10% of the City. The service commenced in 2010 with Phase 1, which features buses running north to south along the west coastline of the City.
By 2015 MyCiTi provided a rapid bus service between Blouberg / Table View, Atlantis, Melkbosstrand, Dunoon, Milnerton, Paarden Eiland, Century City, Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Cape Town Central. It also provided feeder services in most of the above areas as well as in Salt River, Walmer Estate, and all suburbs of the City Bowl and Atlantic Seaboard all the way to Llandudno and Hout Bay.
The service uses high floor articulated and standard size buses in dedicated busways, low floor articulated and standard size buses on the N2 Express service, and smaller 9m Optare buses in suburban and inner city areas. It offers universal access through level boarding and numerous other measures, and requires cashless fare payment using the EMV compliant smart card system, called myconnect. Headway of services (i.e. the time between buses on the same route) range from 3 mins to 20 mins in peak times to 60 minutes during quiet off-peak periods.
In November 2015 approximately 60,000 daily passenger journeys were made on the MyCiTi service, on 36 routes, using 42 bus stations and more than 600 bus stops, in about 223 peak buses.[1][4]
The most recent expansion of MyCiTi services occurred in October 2018, when it added 120 000 scheduled kilometre through artificial troops on existing routes and some new routes. It also added more direct services which don't require transfers between different routes, as well as additional bus stops.
- ^ a b c MyCiTi Monthly Operations Report, November 2015.
- ^ "2013 – 2018 Comprehensive Integrated Transport Plan" (PDF). capetown.gov.za. Transport for Cape Town. December 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
- ^ Information for this article was updated based on information obtained from www.myciti.org.za, as at 29 December 2015.
- ^ A passenger journey is defined by Transport for Cape Town (TCT) as the number of individual passengers travelling from origin to destination, for one way travel. It is not the number of ‘boardings’, so it does not count passengers again when they transfer to a new bus.