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Airport Shuttle The is to be launched on Saturday May 29. This service will run between the Civic Centre on Hertzog Boulevard in central Cape Town, and Cape Town International Airport. This is to be a permanent service, continuing after the World Cup. The trip will take about 30 minutes outside of peak hour and tickets will cost R50, giving better value than any other option for a transport to the airport. The tickets will be sold at the Airport and Civic Centre stations. The service will run from 4am until 12pm between May 29 and June 5, and from July 11 until July 16. Buses will depart every 15 minutes during normal operating hours. Before 6am and after 9pm, they will depart every 30 minutes. There will be more buses when a higher demand is expected. From June 6 until July 10 there will be a 24-hour service, and on FIFA World Cup days, the buses will depart more frequently. For more information, call the city's toll-free Transport Information Centre, on 0800 656463. Inner City Loop The inner-city loop will provide a safe, quick, reliable way for tourists and locals to travel around the inner city, passing tourist attractions and nightspots as well as venues where many Capetonians live and work. The service will run from May 29 until July 16. This services gives Capetonians a taste of things to come, as a similar inner-city service is to be part of Phase 1A of the MyCiTi bus service, which is to be finished after the World Cup. The service launched on Saturday will consist of two loops travelling around the city in opposite directions. The two loops follow the same route except for Long and Loop streets, which are one-way roads. The service travelling anti-clockwise (if the route is viewed from the south), will leave the Civic Centre station on Hertzog Boulevard and travel along Coen Steytler Avenue, stopping at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. It will then travel up Long Street and go into Orange Street, along Annandale and Mills Streets, and then down Buitenkant to the Grand Parade, where there will be a fanpark during the World Cup. The bus will then turn right into Keizergracht and left into Oswald Pirow, before turning left into Hertzog Boulevard to travel back to the Civic Centre Station. The bus travelling in the opposite direction will take the same route in the opposite direction from the Civic Centre Station, passing the Grand Parade before travelling up Buitenkant, Annandale and Orange streets. However, due to one-way-streets, it will travel down Loop Street, not Long Street on the way back to the Civic Centre Station. The service runs past a host of tourist attractions including the nightspots of Long Street, the Labia Theatre, Government Avenue, and the District Six Museum and the Castle. It also travels close to Greenmarket Square, Bo-Kaap and the Gardens Centre. The stop at the Cape Town International Convention Centre is close to several hotels - the Grant Westin, Arabella Sheraton, Cullinan, Southern Sun, Protea North Wharf and the Capetonian. Between May 29 and July 16, the Inner City Loop service will run every 30 minutes between 3am and 9am, and between midnight and 1pm. It will run roughly every 10 minutes between 9am and midnight. The services may be increased on match days during the World Cup. Tickets cost R8 and can be bought on the bus and from roving vendors. Links with other transport services The inner-city loop has been designed to intersect with other transport services. Passengers will b able to transfer from the two new MyCiTi services on to trains, Golden Arrow buses, minibus taxis and metered taxis - to travel to the Atlantic Seaboard, Cape Flats and southern and northern suburbs. For more information on transfers, call the call the city's toll-free Transport Information Centre on 0800 656463. |
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