Gaining Access to Research Sites

BRT Johannesburg and Tshwane are regulated and overseen by the respective metropolitan municipalities (City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in Tshwane, and City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Johannesburg). The management department for Rea Vaya is arranged at the Johannesburg Roads Agency office block in the downtown area of Johannesburg. With a specific end goal to acquire consent to lead the investigation inside the stations, it was important to send through a formal letter from the respective department in University, where the researcher is enlisted to clarify the motivation behind the visits to the BRT stations.

In Tshwane, the management department of the Tshwane Rapid Transit are bus administrators and taxi administrators, on courses serviced by private transports (taxis and buses), recognized as Affected Operators, through shareholding proportional to their market share (Pourbaix, 2011). Tshwane Rapid Transit is operated as an autonomous business element. A corporate governance structure has been built up as an interim arrangement for the day by day activities of Tshwane Rapid Transit until assignment to the Affected Operators (McHugh, 2013). It has its own autonomous panel, administration group as well as a team. Its objective is to give people in general administrations that are agreeably productive and monetarily feasible for the advantage of the Affected Operators. The operation of the organization depends on a refreshment stand concurrence with the City of Tshwane, and it is represented by ordinary working methods composed by the City (Waldeck & Van Heerden, 2017). The City of Tshwane is in charge of expense gathering, the checking of administrations, and for following TRT's execution. The A Re Yeng buses are claimed and overseen by the organization.

A research site is the setting where occasions or exercises happen and a socially characterized region with moving limitations (Hillway, 1964). It is important to interview

96 the members that use Rea Vaya and A Re Yeng at the respective stations to be able to get information about the encounters of the bus transit users.

Johannesburg Art Gallery Station to Fashion Square Northbound station and Ellis Park Station to Old Synagogue Station West are the chosen routes in Johannesburg for this study. Rationale on choosing these routes is that they are full of activity within the Doornfontein and Braamfontein ranges. These stations get a high volume of commuters’ day by day. What's more is that Johannesburg Art Gallery station frames some portion of the C3 route, which is a complementary service(c). This is where travelers would exchange starting with one bus then onto the next that would take them to their desired destination. The information which is gathered from members at this station will give data on the encounters of travelers who utilize the system to travel around the city. Ellis Park Station is picked in light of the fact that it services the T1 (Trunk course), this route transports individuals from Thokoza Park to Ellis Park. The route is additionally situated in an area of student accommodations around the University of Johannesburg campus in Doornfontein. Consequently, members who were questioned, incorporated students.

The map of the research sites appears below:

Rea Vaya Stations

Map 11: Rea Vaya BRT Stations Source: (City of Johannesburg 2018)

The above-mentioned research sites, Johannesburg Art Gallery and Ellis Park station are part of Phase 1 A of the Rea Vaya System, in 2009. In Tshwane, the chosen Tshwane Rapid Transit stations are Mahatma Gandhi Station to TUKS Groenkloof bus stop and Hector Pieterson station to Molefe Makinta Station. The rationale behind choosing this route as the study area is that Sunnyside consists mostly of high-density residential developments, which in the 21st century ranges from reasonably upmarket to run-down.

97 Hector Pieterson station (in Pretoria North) to Molefe Makinta Station (in Pretoria central) is one of the routes chosen for the purpose of this research. The rationale behind choosing this station is because of its good location. The Hector Pieterson station is adjacent to the Wonderboom Rail Station, therefore catering for bus, taxi and rail interchange. This route connects the Tshwane CDB to Pretoria North through Paul Kruger Street. This route is a trunk route and has been designed to cater for two A Re Yeng loading bays (standard or articulated buses) and 20 minibus taxi bays.

A Re Yeng bus routes, stations and bus stops

Map 12: A Re Yeng BRT Source: (City of Tshwane, 2018)

3.4 Sampling design

A sample of 200 individuals was used in this study. The reason being that a huge sample measure is more representative of the populace, an adequately large sample size is likewise important to deliver outcomes among factors that are altogether unique.

Participants were chosen from travelers to represent the diverse partners, taxi managers, BRT managers, and Town Planners. Simple random sampling was used where individuals were chosen entirely by chance and each member of the population had an equal chance to be chosen within these stations. Stratified sampling was used to divide participants into separate groups and ensure that subgroups of the participants are adequately represented within the whole sample population of the study. The reasons for the study was clearly explained to willing participants and only willing participants were interviewed.

As said before a sample of 200 individuals was asked to take part in the research with 100 members from each city. Although it can't be guaranteed that 200 members were

98 going to be representative of the considerable number of commuters who use and are affected by the Rea Vaya and A Re Yeng, this sample gave a sign of the encounters as well as opinions of the bus transit users. The main principles used for choosing individuals from the Taxi Managers is because they belong to Taxi Associations that work in Johannesburg and Tshwane as they are straightforwardly influenced by the Bus Rapid Transit framework. Town Planners are considered because they play a vital role in the transport planning department and the fact that developmental planning is moving toward integrating transport planning into development planning.