The City of Cape Town invites all Capetonians to try out the MyCiTi bus service free of charge on Sunday 27 May 2012, as part of the first anniversary of the full system’s launch.
This morning, as part of the promotion of MyCiTi’s first birthday, Councillor Herron handed out free tickets at the Civic Centre Station. These tickets entitle the bearer to ride any of the MyCiTi buses on Sunday free of charge.
On Sunday, it will be just under one year since the MyCiTi buses started operating along the West Coast of Cape Town. In celebration of the service’s first birthday MyCiTi is giving residents the gift of a free ride to experience the service.
The anniversary provides the City with an opportunity to reflect on what has been achieved, but also look forward to the expansion of the system across the Peninsula in the years to come.
“We have had enormous support from across the city since we started rolling out our first MyCiTi buses, and we want to sincerely thank each and every passenger that has made use of the MyCiTi buses,” said Councillor Brett Herron, Mayoral Committee Member for Transport, Roads and Stormwater.
The MyCiTi system has already registered its three millionth passenger trip, and it is expected that this figure will keep increasing as future phases of the system come on-stream. This includes a network of new routes, anticipated to start operating at the end of this year in the Cape Town CBD, and along the Atlantic Seaboard towards Hout Bay and to Salt River.
“A lot of hard work still lies ahead, but on Sunday we want to invite everyone to celebrate with us,” said Councillor Herron.
All trips on the MyCiTi buses will be free for the day, and no myconnect card will be needed to pay for your trip.
Simply visit any station kiosk on Sunday to collect your free pass, which you can use to ride as many buses and routes as you like for the day. If you begin your trip on a feeder bus there will be ambassadors on the buses who will be able to provide you with the necessary pass, so there is no need to make your way to a station first to collect a pass.
“On the day, we hope people will try out the airport service, take the bus to the Waterfront, or even use MyCiTi to visit Big Bay for lunch. All our routes will be operating on a Sunday schedule,” said Councillor Herron. This means that the Paarden Eiland, Neptune and Vrystaat kiosks on the trunk route (between Table View and the CBD) will not be open.
For more information on the routes you can use on the day and the timetable, please visit www.capetown.gov.za/myciti, call 0800 65 64 63 or e-mail myciti@capetown.gov.za. For those people on Twitter, you can also follow @MyCiTiBus for regular updates.
