JDA completes state-of-the-art Alex Rea Vaya bus depot
JDA says a total of five SMMEs were contracted on the project to the value of R4,9 million and 17 EPWP work opportunities were created.
This Transport Month, the Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA) has completed yet another phase for the Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System Phase 1C trunk route operation in Alexandra.
The Rea Vaya BRT Alexandra Bus Depot Access Road, located in Alexandra, has reached practical completion. The depot will be an additional component for Phase 1C operations from Sandton to Alexandra, along Rivonia Road and Katherine Drive, and the trunk route from Parktown to Alexandra, along Louis Botha Avenue.
The primary objective of the Rea Vaya Phase 1C trunk route is to transport an average of just more than 57 000 passengers a day. The depot houses 30 buses and will serve as a transportation hub for the community and enhance the public transport infrastructure in the Louis Botha corridor.
The JDA is the infrastructure arm of the City of Johannesburg and had initially completed the depot. The agency was subsequently appointed by the City’s Transport Department to design, review and implement an access road into the depot, which lies on Vincent Tshabalala Road in Region E’s Ward 81.
The project entailed upgrading the depot entrance to surface standards and rehabilitating access road-associated stormwater infrastructure for the Alexandra access depot.
Construction works also included a portion of Grenville and Brighton roads which will serve as an access road and the project included the construction of stormwater-associated infrastructure that was also extended and tied in with the existing system and the existing drainage inlet structures.
A total of five SMMEs were employed to an appointment value of R4.9 million and trained through the project, and 17 Expanded Public Works Programme opportunities were created.
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