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15 October 2013 President Zuma to Launch Bridge City Station and the Rail Link Project President Jacob Zuma will on Saturday, 19 October 2013, launch the Bridge City Station and Rail Link Project at KwaMashu, in Durban. The launch forms part of government's infrastructure roll out and is also part of highlighting transport matters during October as Transport Month. President Zuma unveiled the National Infrastructure Plan in the 2012 State of the Nation Address, whose key feature is the coordination of infrastructure build centrally in the Presidency, through the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission, (PICC), chaired by the President. This major infrastructure Project is located in the INK (Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu) area in eThekwini Municipality. Government has invested over R1 billion in the project, built by the Department of Transport through the Passenger Rail Association of South Africa (PRASA). The Bridge City Station and Rail Link Project is a significant public transport intervention that provides a new 3.2 kilometre rail link with a terminal station underneath the Bridge City Mall, as well as a fully integrated road-based transport interchange for convenient connectivity to the public transport system. The new rail link provides for an extra 8 000 passengers per day accessing the rail network and the project has already made a significant and substantive contribution to local job creation, peaking at 27 500 jobs during the construction period. PRASA has additionally ensured that other substantive benefits have been made to the surrounding communities of Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu, including 10 tertiary education level bursaries for deserving students as well as significant skills transfer initiatives for the local communities. President Zuma will be accompanied by the Minister of Transport Ms Dipuo Peters and KwaZulu-Natal Premier Mr Senzo Mchunu. Issued by: The Presidency Pretoria Enquiries: Mac Maharaj on 079 879 3203 or [email protected] -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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