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The Gautrain service will extend its limited offering and operate during peak hours between Sandton and OR Tambo International Airport stopping at the Rhodesfield station.
This follows delays on the bus service on Monday as a first ever strike
over wages kicked off.
There will also be a bus service between Sandton and Rhodesfield and between Rhodesfield and OR Tambo for most of the day, from 09:00 until 16:00.
Other contingency plans remain in effect for the approximately 60 000 travelers the Gautrain ferries daily, including a reduced rail service, which consists a peak period train service between Centurion and Sandton every 12 minutes, and between Sandton and Park stations every 20 minutes.
The rapid rail service announced on Monday night that it had taken legal steps to ensure that striking workers protest peacefully and had implemented additional safety measures on the first day of an indefinite wage strike which has affected travel in SA's economic hub.
The company operating the Gautrain, Bombela Operating Company (BOC), accused workers on Monday of blocking the road to the Midrand depot, causing delays to the bus service. The union representing striking workers, the United National Transport Union (UNTU) denied this.
UNTU is demanding a 10% basic salary increase, a
transport allowance of R800, a housing allowance of R1 600 and incentive
bonuses of R20 000 for all employees.
The BOC said it had offered an 8.6% across-the-board increase, and called on UNTU to reconsider the offer, calling it “generous” and above inflation.
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