Gauteng Business 2016 edition

OVERVIEW
many high-end cooperates competing
for space in new office
buildings close to the stations.
However, due to the regions
rapid economic and population
growth, integrated solutions
need to be implemented in
order to ease escalating traffic
congestion on Gauteng’s many
new and existing highways.
The revamping and modernisation
of public transport and
roads is aimed at creating a coordinated,
integrated transport
system for the entire province.
It will also establish Gauteng
as a Global City Region that
uses international standards of
service delivery with seamless
mobility between municipalities
provided by different modes of
transport.
Transnet upgrades
Meanwhile, Transnet is spending
R300-billion on upgrading
and expanding every aspect of
its operations. Many of those
improvements will come in
Gauteng, where Transnet Rail
Engineering (TRE) has a major
presence from its workshops
in Pretoria and Germiston. The
Wits Metrorail system serves
Johannesburg and its surrounds.
Park Station, in the north of the
The new construction at OR Tambo airport.
central business district, is the largest station in Africa and acts as
the metropolitan hub.
Airports
OR Tambo International Airport caters for more than 17-million passengers
every year, receives more than 105 000 arriving air-traffic
movements and employs 18 000 people. Greater Johannesburg has
several smaller airports that host mostly commercial aircraft:
• Rand Airport in Germiston in the south-east
• Grand Central Airport in Midrand, halfway between Johannesburg
and Pretoria Wonderboom Airport in Pretoria North
• Waterkloof Air Force base, south of Pretoria
• Lanseria Airport, to the north-west of Johannesburg
The developers of the Cradle City project, Amari Land, expect the
number of departing passengers at Lanseria to grow to seven million
annually by 2017, and that scheduled flights will increase from 1 100
to almost 4 000. Freight tonnage is expected to reach 20 000 tons by
2017, up from the current total of 5 000 tons. Brakpan and Springs are
among several towns that have good airfields. Nigel is home to the
Dunnottar Airport and an aeronautical museum.
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