PUBLIC TRANSPORT: DRAFT SUBSIDIES POLICY OUT FOR COMMENT

PUBLIC TRANSPORT: DRAFT SUBSIDIES POLICY OUT FOR COMMENT

• 26 February 2024
• Transport
• SA Legal Academy

Please note: On 5 April 2024, the deadline for input was extended to 30 April 2024.

The Department of Transport has called for input by 31 March 2024 on a draft national policy for public transport subsidies. Underpinned by the 2021 White Paper on National Transport, the proposed new policy seeks to provide ‘appropriate’, implementation models and a costing methodology founded on the principles that public transport subsidies should be:

• user targeted
• equitable, and
• sustainable in the medium to long-term.

Policy goals include:

• providing a ‘rationale’ for sustainably funding public transport services according to ‘varying operating conditions’ nationwide
• promoting efficient, cost-effective, integrated, multimodal transport system planning that encourages the public transport industry’s ‘accelerated transformation’
• addressing public transport infrastructure provision and maintenance backlogs
• establishing suitable governance and institutional structures for managing, operating and maintaining public transport and facilitating capital investments in new technologies, and
• ensuring the necessary ‘regulatory adjustments’.

This is nevertheless noting the ‘significant challenge’ posed by spatial planning and land-use development complexities.

• draft policy
• White Paper on National Transport

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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