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Today, the City of Cape Town, South Africa launches its new Transport Authority. The agency will coordinate public transportation services throughout the city, taking over control of Metrorail, the state-owned enterprise that operates the country’s urban rail commuter network. It is hope that an era of renewed investment will result in better service and safety. (This Big City)
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I don’t quite understand the illustration. Has Cape Town adopted Chicago’s old logo as its own – or does the photo just serve as a handy stand-in for their future transit authority’s identity? I love that old logo and would like to see it resuscitated, bur doubt Cape Town would do is…
I don’t really understand it either – it appears on the futurecapetown.com site, which also has images that seem more relevant, like: http://futurecapetown.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Metrorail-new-300×180.jpg