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	\| Gauteng Economic Development ...
		Construction on the Gautrain is expected to start by the end of October, after the Gauteng provincial government announces the final bidder at the end of April.
		Shilowa emphasised that the Gautrain was part of "an integrated and sustainable transport system [that] is critical to Gauteng's success as a global city region".
		The Gautrain process started in 2000 when Shilowa announced the proposal, and the train took on the nickname of the Shilowa Express.
	www.geda.co.za /default.asp?index=9913&ID=389&sub=2 (743 words)

	Gautrain misses Pta goalpost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pretoria - The route of the Gautrain may be extended to the north of Pretoria.
		This was the reaction of Barbara Jensen, Gautrain spokesperson, to reports that the Tshwane metro council was busy with an application to the Gauteng government to extend the express train's route to the planned Rainbow Junction sports stadium in Wonderboom.
		Jensen said the Gautrain project had been planned in such a manner that the route could be extended to the north of Tshwane, the East Rand, West Rand and Soweto.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1537740,00.html (315 words)

	business.iafrica.com \| business news Gautrain to be completed in 2010
		The Gautrain Rapid Rail Link project team received the best and final offer (BAFO) documents from consortia Gauliwe and Bombela on January 26 and the team is busy with an intensive evaluation.
		Gautrain spokesperson Barbara Jensen told I-Net Bridge on Thursday that subsequent to the appointment of the winning bidder; the team would go into a financial closure phase for six months in time for construction to commence.
		At the 2001 Gautrain investors' conference, commissioning was scheduled for early 2007, but is now expected towards the end of 2009 in time for the Soccer World Cup the following year.
	business.iafrica.com /news/410410.htm (357 words)

	Gautrain only ready in 2007 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Barbara Jensen, the Gautrain public relations consultant, however said that no specific date had yet been set, as construction would only start next year and the link would only be commissioned in early 2007.
		This already is at least a six month slippage from the timeline set out at the April 2001 Gautrain Rapid Rail Investors Conference, when it was said that "construction is planned to start in the second half of 2003 and commissioning will take place in 2006".
		The Gautrain project will be developed as a Public Private Partnership in which the Provincial Government will not only be involved in the project on a strategic level, but will also be co-responsible for funding.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1333339,00.html (573 words)

	BUILDAID PORTAL - Gautrain looks beyond legal spats to land acquisition. By: Irma Venter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gautrain project leader Jack van der Merwe hopes to start buying the land necessary for the Gautrain development early next year.
		According to Van der Merwe, the Gautrain project office may not have identified the project outcome specifics as circumspectly from the start as it should have, although he believes the effect not to be dramatic.
		However, the shortlisted consortia are trying to reduce the risk by facilitating most of their loans in rands, something made easier by the fact that all four of South Africa’s big banks are members of the consortia.
	www.buildaid.co.za /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=86 (399 words)

	'Gautrain will be ready by 2010' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gautrain CEO Jack van der Merwe is optimistic that the R8 billion Gautrain project will be completed in time for the 2010 World Cup.
		The Gautrain would cost R2 million per hour to build over 260 weeks, and is expected to create one million jobs.
		The Gautrain was expected to boost the province's GDP by between 0.7 and 1 percent.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /zones/sundaytimesNEW/business/business1115899164.aspx (500 words)

	Gauteng's bullet train on track - SouthAfrica.info
		Construction work on the Gautrain was due to begin in 2003, but objections by some local residents affected by the development delayed the project's go-ahead.
		Bohlweki Environmental, the company that undertook the environmental impact assessment of the project, conducted a biophysical and socio-economic evaluation to arrive at a route involving the least environmental impact while ensuring the technical and financial feasibility of the project.
		In his opening of legislature address earlier this year, he said that the Gautrain was part of "an integrated and sustainable transport system [that] is critical to Gauteng's success as a global city region".
	www.southafrica.info /doing_business/economy/infrastructure/gautrain.htm (1323 words)

	Midrand.net - Gautrain - Midrand Accommodation. Midrand bed and breakfast, guest houses, hotels and conference centres.
		Gautrain is one of eleven Blue IQ projects of the Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG).
		The Gautrain project is, therefore, primarily aimed at enhancing and supporting economic growth in the Gauteng Province and generating employment.
		This means that the Gautrain will have to depend on passengers travelling to and from stations by means of either their own private vehicles or other public transport services.
	www.midrand-accommodation.co.za /gautrain.html (992 words)

	\| Gauteng Economic Development ...
		Construction of the Johannesburg-Pretoria Gautrain will begin in mid-2005 and in the process some 98 000 jobs will be created, including 2 000 permanent jobs when the train starts running.
		The 80km Gautrain, running between Johannesburg and Pretoria, with a line to the Johannesburg International Airport, will cost R7,5-billion, and was first proposed in 2000 by Shilowa, and became known as the "Shilowa Express".
		The new Gautrain service will run on a 1 435 mm gauge rail track which is wider than the current RSA gauge rail track of 1 065 mm.
	www.geda.co.za /default.asp?index=9913&ID=241&sub=2 (1019 words)

	Star: Rail CEO says he'll do it in five
		Gautrain CEO Jack van der Merwe is optimistic that the R8-billion project will be completed in time for the 2010 soccer World Cup.
		The Gautrain would cost R2-million an hour to build over 260 weeks, and was expected to create 1-million jobs.
		The Gautrain was expected to boost the province's GDP by between 0,7 and 1%.
	wwww.entertainment.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=129&fArticleId=2517814 (484 words)

	Gautrain
		Construction on the Gautrain, the rapid rail link between Johannesburg, Tshwane as well as Sandton, and the Johannesburg International Airport, is set to start in early 2006.
		The Gautrain, a state-of-the-art rapid rail network that will run for about 80 kilometres between Johannesburg, Tshwane as well as Sandton, and the Johannesburg International Airport in Kempton Park, is aimed at enhancing economic growth and creating jobs in the region as well as alleviating severe traffic congestion in the Johannesburg / Tshwane corridor.
		It is essential that the Gautrain be complete in time for the Soccer World Cup, with chief executive officer of the 2010 local organising committee, Danny Jordaan, saying South Africa could not "have a successful World Cup without an efficient transport system".
	www.kemptalk.com /gautrain.htm (1716 words)

	FIN24 : Empowering Financial Decisions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gauteng's economy was growing gradually, reaching 5.6% per annum in 2004, but the province was aiming for 8% growth per annum in the next 10 years.
		The Gautrain could ease some of this congestion by carrying 80 000 passengers an hour at full capacity.
		The Muckleneuk Lukasrand Property Owners and Residents Association was taking Gautrain to court to demand tunnelling beneath the suburb instead of surface lines.
	www.finance24.com /articles/default/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-24_1676784 (473 words)

	Polemics: Katharine McKenzie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is ironic then that the Gautrain initiative, one of the few bold developments in the public transport sector, has come in for so much flak.
		Criticisms include scepticism that the Gautrain will attract 60 000 passengers a day (as expected by the Gauteng government) as well as the huge initial capital outlay required for this new infrastructure and the ongoing operating subsidies that will follow.
		While it is relatively easy to measure the cost to taxpayers of the capital outlay and operating subsidies, it is much more difficult to measure the cost of not acting at all.
	www.polity.org.za /pol/opinion/katharine/?show=31443 (505 words)

	FIN24 : Empowering Financial Decisions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Johannesburg - The Gauteng provincial government and Gautrain project team failed to meet its April deadline on the announcement relating to the successful bidder for the rapid rail link.
		The delay has been ascribed to the fact that the parties need more time to finalise the evaluation process owing to the complexity of the bids received from the Bombela and Gauliwe consortia vying for the R7bn project.
		Gautrain, also known as the Shilowa Express, is expected to help create 1 200 permanent jobs and about 48 000 opportunities during construction.
	www.finance24.com /articles/default/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-1786_1697658 (244 words)

	Creamer Media's Engineering News Online, South African Industry News :: Transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There is no plan on the drawing board to complete a certain leg of the public–private partnership project first for the purposes of the World Cup, such as the airport to Sandton, but rather an approach to start and finish the project in totality by 2010, says Van der Merwe.
		The Gautrain is currently the subject of legal action, taken by the Muckleneuk and Lukasrand Property Owners and Residents Association (MLPORA) against the Gauteng Department of Agriculture Conservation and Environment.
		An application was lodged in late October with the High Court in Pretoria to set aside the decision of the former MEC of the Department, Mary Metcalfe, to proceed with the proposed route of the Gautrain.
	www.engineeringnews.co.za /eng/sector/transport/?show=59764 (458 words)

	Gautrain announcement delayed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Gauteng provincial government and Gautrain project team have failed to meet its April deadline on the announcement relating to the successful bidder for the rapid rail link.
		The delay has been ascribed to the fact that the parties need more time to finalise the evaluation process owing to the complexity of the bids received from the Bombela and Gauliwe consortia vying for the 7 billion rand project.
		Gautrain, also known as the Shilowa Express, is expected to help create 1,200 permanent jobs and about 48,000 opportunities during construction.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /zones/sundaytimesNEW/business/business1114780648.aspx (224 words)

	Full steam ahead :: www.Tuinhuis.co.za :: Freedom of speech is your right
		Construction of the R7-billion high-speed Gautrain is to go ahead early next year.
		The row over the hotly disputed Gautrain project has taken a dramatic turn with the decision by the Muckleneuk/Lukasrand Property Owners and Ratepayers Association to go to court.
		Cabinet has given Gautrain the thumbs-up to proceed with the R20-billion project, but with strings attached.
	www.tuinhuis.co.za /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=418&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0&POSTNUKESID=74b17b5affebe05d1a0f3e5b3d9900b3 (856 words)

	Star: Gautrain is a cousin of the gravy train
		Gautrain is a cousin of the gravy train
		His proposal to reroute the N3 has effectively already been planned, but was canned by the current provincial government.
		The Gautrain has proved to everyone that the old lie that there is no money for roads is just that.
	www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=228&fArticleId=2106006 (481 words)

	IOL: Residents set to sue over Gautrain
		A spokesperson for the association, Felicia Fourie, said residents have now decided to go ahead with court action against Gautrain, but she would not say exactly what they would challenge in court.
		One of the alternative proposals is for the train to be routed through an underground tunnel in the Muckleneuk area.
		One of the Metro Council's proposals is for the Gautrain line to go underground from the main Pretoria railway station to the vicinity of Belle Ombre station.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=181&art_id=vn20040614030402141C657422&set_id=1 (668 words)

	Business Report - Jack van der Merwe aims to get Gautrain running on time
		Jack van der Merwe is the driver of the Gautrain, the R7 billion rapid rail project that will link the Johannesburg International Airport and the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria.
		Once the Gautrain is here it will be used for a long time.
		In the Gautrain, for instance, we took a decision that we would not take a foreign currency risk.
	www.busrep.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=2126587&fSectionId=553&fSetId=304 (1249 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In danger: The Pretoria Station, is at the heart of a historic part of the city which may be affected by the Shilowa Express.
		The report says the Gautrain station will "be obtrusive in its position left of the main station building".
		The firm of environmental consultants said it had received objections from Architectural Heritage South Africa and the Tshwane Building Heritage Association, which had expressed concerns that the proposed Gautrain station near the railway station would detract from the city's sense of place and history.
	www.suntimes.co.za /2003/05/04/news/gauteng/njhb02.asp (732 words)

	Reports hold up start of Gautrain - www.eprop.co.za
		Although the delay might seem lengthy, Gautrain project spokeswoman Barbara Jensen said projects of this nature normally took 14 years from conception to completion.
		The Gautrain high-speed train project which will link Johannesburg, Sandton, Pretoria and Johannesburg International Airport is now only likely to be finished in 2010.
		Meanwhile, the Gautrain tender evaluation committee and national treasury's public private partnership unit are evaluating bid documents from two shortlisted consortiums.
	www.eprop.co.za /news/article.aspx?idArticle=3073 (370 words)

	NiZA - Nederlands instituut voor Zuidelijk Afrika : Gauteng on track for World Cup
		Some such as construction of the high-speed Gautrain to Pretoria and the airport and upgrading existing rail services are already underway.
		For public transport to be succesful during the World Cup, a lot depends on the already notorious Gautrain.
		This R7 billion government funded high-speed train project aims to change the very mindset of a lot of South Africans: to get out of their cars and into trains and the connecting buses and minibus taxis.
	www.niza.nl /detail_page.phtml?&publish=Y&lang=nl&text00=&text01=&text14=&text10=jvdbliek1&nav=n2a&username=guest@niza.nl&password=9999&username=guest@niza.nl&password=9999&groups=NIZA (781 words)

	IOL: Gautrain ideal may be somewhat off track
		Pretoria and Johannesburg are becoming increasingly congested and the Gautrain may not be the answer.
		In order for the proposed high-speed Gautrain to attract 100 000 commuters a day and so relieve the pressure, car users have to be persuaded to use it.
		But this may not happen, according to Vaughn Mostert, adviser to the South African Commuter Organisation and vociferous critic of the planned new rail link between the cities.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=181&art_id=vn20040603040925532C885849&set_id=1 (488 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Three years since the Gautrain High Speed Rail Link project was launched and 127 public meetings later, the final route was announced this week.
		Barbara Jensen, the communications adviser of the Gautrain project, said one of the major changes to the route was in the Tshwane area where the train would now go underneath Salvokop.
		In Sandton the route was also changed to preserve the Innes Free Park because the residents in that area had wanted it to be saved.
	www.suntimes.co.za /2003/10/05/news/gauteng/njhb03.asp (718 words)

	Gautrain will be ready for 2010 World Cup - www.eprop.co.za (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		One of Africa's largest transportation projects, Gautrain, is making good progress and will be completed by 2010 when the soccer world cup is hosted by South Africa, Gautrain spokesperson Dr Barbara Jensen said.
		Construction for the project is expected to commence in 2005 on the first phase of the operation - the Sandton-JIA and Sandton-Pretoria routes - while the remaining routes will be finished just in time for the soccer event.
		Two consortia have qualified to participate in the procurement phase of the project - Bombela Consortium, consisting of Murray and Roberts (MUR) and fl economic empowerment (BEE) participants; and Gauliwe Consortium, consisting of Grinaker-LTA and a BEE firm.
	www.sapoaonline.co.za /news/article.aspx?idArticle=3739&pf=1 (384 words)

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