{"id":51120,"date":"2023-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=c674aad588060a144fd26bf5992d87a1"},"modified":"2023-05-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T00:00:00","slug":"taxi-recapitalisation-programme-makes-significant-strides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/taxi-recapitalisation-programme-makes-significant-strides\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi Recapitalisation Programme makes significant strides"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Department of Transport has lauded the Taxi Recapitalisation Programme (TRP) as a huge success following the scrapping of over 81 000 old taxi vehicles with a pay out of more than R5.6 billion scrapping allowance to taxi operators since its inception in October 2006 to March 2023.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe TRP continues to make significant strides in changing the face of the taxi industry – away from what was normally referred to as moving coffin taxi vehicles, which characterised the face of the industry to modern day safer taxi vehicles,\u201d the department said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The majority of taxi vehicles now meet all the safety requirements that were introduced through the TRP, which included among others, safety belts and rollover bars.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
When the TRP started in 2006, the target was to scrap 135 000 old taxis, with scrapping allowance set at R50 000.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Over 81 000 old taxi vehicles have now been scrapped with the scrapping allowance increased to R151 000 since the beginning of April 2023.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
As TRP approaches its 18th year anniversary in October 2023, the department plans to scrap 3 750 old taxi vehicles in the current financial year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The department will also continue to work with the taxi associations to encourage their members to scrap old taxi vehicles. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Department of Transport has lauded the Taxi Recapitalisation Programme (TRP) as a huge success following the scrapping of over 81 000 old taxi vehicles with a pay out of more than R5.6 billion scrapping allowance to taxi operators since its incepti…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n