VANDERBIJLPARK. – Smiles were brought to the faces of queue marshals and their managers when the Gauteng Transport MEC, Jacob Mamabolo announced they would receive a stipend.
This was during his visit to unveil taxi ranks COVID19 support committees and reporting tools last week. The unveiling was conducted at the Civic Center Taxi Rank in Vanderbijpark. Mamabolo said that each marshal and manager would receive R3500 and R5000 per month respectively adding that this stipend is to ensure compliance with public transport regulations in order to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus.
The taxi ranks’ committees’ task will be to enforce regulations of social distancing, cleaning and disinfecting of loading bays and taxis and sanitization of commuters.
The Department of Roads in collaboration with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), further unveiled an application (APP), which will assist with Covid19 compliance reporting.
Mamabolo said the APP will assist Taxi Rank managers and marshals to report daily the number of vehicles disinfected, the number of passengers sanitized, indicate whether the loading capacity was complied with as well as report if all passenger were wearing masks.
The system further allows for regional coordinators to indicate if they have enough stock of sanitizers and disinfectants.
