From the 16 September 2020, Metrorail Western Cape has added an additional limited train service for commuters between Retreat and Fish Hoek. This additional service only allows commuters to commute with trains between Retreat, Muizenberg and Fish Hoek. Therefore train stations between these like Kalk Bay, False Bay, Steenberg and more remain closed during the SA Lockdown period. There are only 16 scheduled trains operating between 05:30 and 17:00 Monday to Friday. Eight of the trains are inbound and the rest are outbound. Commuters wishing to travel all the way to town from Fish Hoek or Muizenberg will need to change over at Retreat to a limited train service on either the Southern or Cape Flats lines towards town. For more details regarding the departure times, be sure to view them on the Wizzherd app and select either of the three train stations mentioned above.

We are pleased to announce that we have added the Cape Flats timetable to the Wizzherd app. This follows the announcement of Metrorail Western Cape resuming a limited train service on the Cape Flats Line as of 24 August 2020. The announcement falls in line with the change to level 2 of the SA Covid-19 Lockdown. As explained in our article, Southern Line Covid-19 Limited Train Service, commuters on the Cape Flats line can also expect a revised timetable and operating hours. For easy and convenient access to the most recent train timetable, be sure to download the Wizzherd Beta app for your android mobile phone.

As of the 1 July 2020, Metrorail Western Cape has resumed a limited operation of trains across South Africa under the Covid-19 National Lockdown level 3 restrictions. For Cape Town this has resulted in trains on the Southern Line operating as a limited service. This means that train times and station stops have been revised to ensure safety of commuters and trialing of train operations during the lockdown. For more information, visit the Metrorail Western Cape website by following this link. Commuters will also notice that the Wizzherd app will only display train schedule information for the Southern Line as the Cape Flats line timetable has not been provided yet. Be sure to access the latest Metrorail train schedule on your phone by downloading the Wizzherd beta app from the Google Play store.

We are excited to announce that we have completed integrating all the stations and timetable departure times for the Cape Flats Line in the Western Cape. We have spent countless hours testing to make sure that all trips and stations are supported so that commuters can enjoy the full Wizzherd app experience. But the updates don't end here, we more features planned. We will be looking at incorporating the Central Line and Northern Line later this year. For now, there is more than enough to empower commuters track their journey and help fellow commuters by revealing the location of trains in real-time. This is why we happy to present another update of the Wizzherd Beta app for Android. If you are new to Wizzherd and would like to know how to use the app then please feel free to read the article, Travelling Together with Wizzherd.

With trains on the Southern Line being as unpredictable as the weather in Cape Town, we felt it would be great to take a look back at the months of June 2017 and 2018. By retrospecting, we can see what the effects were from the challenges of the rail system. Some of these challenges woud have been cable theft, faulty signals, manual authorizations or even planned upgrades. Just like the weather, on any given day, you can either be affected by one of these or a combination of all of them.

We encourage commuters, who use the Wizzherd app, to help create a more informative environment for public transport. By choosing one of the reports on the app, a commuter can describe the situation they are experiencing. Wait, so how is this supposed to help me, if I’m creating the reports? Well, the great thing about working with the ‘power of the crowd’ is, if it doesn’t help you then it is bound to help someone else. And maybe tomorrow you could be that person to benefit from someone else’s willingness to create reports using the Wizzherd app.

We all know what it feels like to be the one waiting. Lately, the wait for a train seems to be completely unpredictable. In a situation like this, we tend to think that we are alone. The reality is that we already have a community of people who travel by train who need the correct platform.

We believe that by empowering the community, we can help bring back a sense of predictability to the trains. We have created this guide to help Cape Town commuters find a means to improve their train experiences.

In an effort to make this world a better place, we have decided to make an improvement to society. Using real-life scenarios and modern technologies we are redefining the public transport experience. As a commuter using public transport has its advantages and disadvantages. We believe that as a community we can work together to improve the experience for everyone.