Gauteng Transport Implementation Plan (GTIP5) – Department requests your feedback before 31 August 2012

The Department has issued the Five-Year Gauteng Transport Implementation Plan (GTIP5) as part of the 25 year Integrated Transport Master Plan (ITMP25) for public inputs and comments.

In 2011, MEC Ismail Vadi appointed a Steering Committee to initiate a process of developing a 25-Year Integrated Transport Master Plan that will serve as a blue-print for the development of comprehensive transport system for the province. As part of the development of the 25 Year Master Plan, the Steering Committee was commissioned to prepare a 5-Year interim plan to guide transport development.

The objective of the GTIP5 is that it should be able ‘to identify those urgent and short-term measures that can be implemented by the Department of Roads and Transport to begin the process of re-fashioning the transport system in our province’ MEC Vadi said. He also added that such a transport system should be reliable, accessible, safe, affordable and environmentally sustainable. Also, it should be managed effectively and efficiently.

The MEC also indicated that the GTIP5 Draft Plan was aimed at identifying tangible plans to be implemented in the next five years without deviating from the 25-year master plan.

Presenting the Draft Plan to the Department, Chairperson of the Committee Mr. Jack van der Merwe highlighted that the document ‘sets out a “fast-track” implementation plan of key intervention projects based on a detail analysis of the current planning and construction projects in Gauteng as a precursor to achieving the ITMP25 goals and objectives’. He added that the draft plan was now out for all role players and stakeholders in the province for their comments, additions and buy-in. It is envisaged that the GTIP5 would be finalized and approved by the end of 2012.

Written submissions should be submitted to the Chairperson of the Panel, Mr Jack van der Merwe, by 31 August 2012, by email to jackvdm@gautrainpo.co.za or delivered at 22 Milky Way, Linbro Business Park, Johannesburg.

To download the document click on the link below:

http://www.bks.co.za/docshare/DownloadFile.aspx?FileID=guest265230562012718154524

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http://www.roadsandtransport.gpg.gov.za/GTIPD_DeptRequests_ForComments_Inputs_2012.htm