GEORGE NEWS - Go George will offer its reduced public transport for extended periods between the hours of 05:00 and 20:00, from tomorrow, 30 March until Friday 3 April. 

The following release was issued tonight:

This follows the announcement of the Minister of Transport received late this afternoon. We are frantically busy and trying our best to bring in additional drivers from the lockdown and revise our timetables. We are trying to do in a few hours what normally takes a few days.

THIS IS PURELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIAL GRANT RECIPIENTS TO TRAVEL TO PAY POINTS. SASSA beneficiaries are required to carry their IDs and SASSA cards when travelling on public transport as prove that they are using the service for this purpose.

•Public transport remains a VERY HIGH-RISK ENVIRONMENT for the spreading of the Covid-19 virus, and even more so for the elderly and vulnerable members of the community. Please try to make alternative arrangements if you MUST leave your house.

•If you own a car and have a friend, neighbour or family member who needs to go into town to draw their grant money, PLEASE OFFER THEM A RIDE. Let’s practise UBUNTU.

•If you have absolutely no alternative but using the bus, please consider travelling to town after the morning peak period (after 08:30) to give those that render essential services and have to travel to work, space on the bus – seats are very limited now.

•By lockdown regulation, every bus can only load 50% of its seating capacity, which comes down to 20 passengers on a GO GEORGE bus to ensure adequate social distance between passengers.  

•Where needed, trips trip will be undertaken with two buses in a row to accommodate as many essential services staff as possible while keeping to the maximum of 20 passengers per bus.

•To limit potential exposure of passengers to the Covid-19 virus, Go George is currently not adding more routes to the reduced service during lockdown.

These arrangements are subject to change. Any changes will be communicated to the public through the  Go George Facebook page and website.

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