Daftar Hotel - Incarnated as a means of railway transportation in the World Cup favorites (PD) in 2010. With the soaring price of airline tickets and many bus routes that are closed to minimize traffic congestion, many people choose to use the train services. More particularly the World Cup fans.
Hotel di Bali - "Take the train is more comfortable than the bus, because it does not jostle and not have to wait too long because it always appears in a few minutes," said Esteban Fuoza (26), Argentine fans, Tuesday (15 / 6) yesterday.
To metrorail or trains serving the route in the city, the schedule had been arranged orderly manner the carriage and rarely prolonged. Every 15 minutes or so at each station, one train leaves and one other train coming. When PD, interval could be faster or every five to ten minutes.
Train in South Africa cared for by the phrase (Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa). Phrase is a government-owned companies - a kind of PT KAI in Indonesia. Types of services ranging from metrorail (between regions within the city), shosholoza meyl (intercity), as well as covering gautrain autopax (superfast trains in and intercity), until the blue train or rovas rail (train lux).
As if to steal the attention of prospective passengers, launches promo phrases such as "five minutes". That is, the passenger trains need only walk five minutes from the station to the stadium, in the nine cities chosen as World Cup venue. For example in Nasrec Station in Soweto, Johannesburg.
Nasrec station is just less than three kilometers east of Soccer City Stadium. "Because you're young, you may go to the stadium in just 2-3 minutes. Moreover, you have an ID card of World Cup, so it can enter the stadium without much examination," said Aaron Yobkhena (32), one information officer at Station Nasrec .
Yobkhena added that five-minute promo attract passengers would be very powerful, not just the fans, but also common citizens. From that usually chose the bus, so switching to the train. The proof, Nasrec which usually only visited by tens of people, an increase of up to hundreds during the World Cup.
Nasrec station is actually one of the old station in South Africa. However, because of its location adjacent to the Soccer City, Nasrec again have a place. Nasrec beautify phrases for welcoming the World Cup. "Last year, the monitor information on train arrivals and departures are often dead, so everyone had to queue up to me to ask his train schedule. Now, my job does not exist," explained Yobkhena snickered a little.
What about price? Compete with the bus. To note, especially for train tickets metrorail, usually can be purchased not just for one route (round trip) in a day, but at the same time for a week. For example, the price of tickets from Doorfontein, train station near Ellis Park, to Nasrec, is 10 rand, or about USD 12 thousand. If you buy a ticket for a week, just need to pay 50 rand, or $ 60 thousand.
Hotel di Bali - "Take the train is more comfortable than the bus, because it does not jostle and not have to wait too long because it always appears in a few minutes," said Esteban Fuoza (26), Argentine fans, Tuesday (15 / 6) yesterday.
To metrorail or trains serving the route in the city, the schedule had been arranged orderly manner the carriage and rarely prolonged. Every 15 minutes or so at each station, one train leaves and one other train coming. When PD, interval could be faster or every five to ten minutes.
Train in South Africa cared for by the phrase (Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa). Phrase is a government-owned companies - a kind of PT KAI in Indonesia. Types of services ranging from metrorail (between regions within the city), shosholoza meyl (intercity), as well as covering gautrain autopax (superfast trains in and intercity), until the blue train or rovas rail (train lux).
As if to steal the attention of prospective passengers, launches promo phrases such as "five minutes". That is, the passenger trains need only walk five minutes from the station to the stadium, in the nine cities chosen as World Cup venue. For example in Nasrec Station in Soweto, Johannesburg.
Nasrec station is just less than three kilometers east of Soccer City Stadium. "Because you're young, you may go to the stadium in just 2-3 minutes. Moreover, you have an ID card of World Cup, so it can enter the stadium without much examination," said Aaron Yobkhena (32), one information officer at Station Nasrec .
Yobkhena added that five-minute promo attract passengers would be very powerful, not just the fans, but also common citizens. From that usually chose the bus, so switching to the train. The proof, Nasrec which usually only visited by tens of people, an increase of up to hundreds during the World Cup.
Nasrec station is actually one of the old station in South Africa. However, because of its location adjacent to the Soccer City, Nasrec again have a place. Nasrec beautify phrases for welcoming the World Cup. "Last year, the monitor information on train arrivals and departures are often dead, so everyone had to queue up to me to ask his train schedule. Now, my job does not exist," explained Yobkhena snickered a little.
What about price? Compete with the bus. To note, especially for train tickets metrorail, usually can be purchased not just for one route (round trip) in a day, but at the same time for a week. For example, the price of tickets from Doorfontein, train station near Ellis Park, to Nasrec, is 10 rand, or about USD 12 thousand. If you buy a ticket for a week, just need to pay 50 rand, or $ 60 thousand.
