I hope everybody is very well, ca va la France ? j'ai appris que mes frequentations alsaciennes profite de mon absence pour aller tous ensemble en boite... m'en fiche, na! Le offshore ca pu le vomi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A R12-billion monorail will be built between Johannesburg and Soweto in the next two years, it was announced on Wednesday. "By 2009 no one from Soweto should have to wait more than 15 minutes for transport," Gauteng Finance and Economic Affairs MEC Paul Mashatile said at the launch of the project in Sandton.Work on the 44.7-kilometre monorail and its 39 stations will start in September.The monorail was intended to complement and not compete against existing forms of transport, said Mashatile.

Moving people ‘efficiently’

"The problem in South Africa when it comes to public transport is not competition; the problem is people queue for three to four hours (for transport). "We want to move people: move them efficiently; move them safely; move them in an affordable way..." It was hoped the monorail would move 1.5 million passengers a day, between Soweto and Johannesburg, to ease congestion on the roads. The monorail service will consist of 4.5 metres high, rubber-wheeled carbon fibre carriages, 10 metres long and three metres wide — able to carry 107 passengers each. These will run on concrete beams atop six-metre tall pillars situated mainly on the centre medians between road carriageways, and will dock at aerial stations accessed via escalators.

Set to be a hybrid

The hybrid variety used in South Africa will run on a combination of electricity and solar-powered batteries. The monorail is expected to cost $25-million a kilometre (about R173-million) to build, but none of this will be borne by the government. The project is a private sector initiative by the Malaysian investment consortium, Newcyc Vision, with which Mashatile, Gauteng Public Transport Road and Works MEC Ignatius Jacobs and Gauteng Economic Development Agency chief executive officer Keith Khoza signed a deal on Wednesday. Newcyc has been given three months to find Black Economic Empowerment partners.

Companies invited

Newcyc chief executive officer Jeyakumar Varathan has invited both small local development companies and big civil construction companies to present the consortium with their profiles. He said that while raw materials were being sourced outside South Africa because of present local shortages, construction would take place in the country at a factory in Mogale City, next to the Merafong Hospital. Built on 20 hectares of land provided by the Gauteng government, the factory would be the hub of monorail developments throughout Africa. Jacobs said he first proposed that the idea of a monorail for Gauteng be explored in his 2002 strategic agenda for transport. However, year-long work on a feasibility study for the project had been kept largely secret until now to prevent any escalation in the prices of, among other things, land, said Mashatile.

Essentially a ‘skybridge’

The monorail was not expected to result in expropriations similar to those caused by construction of the Gautrain, and only minimal disruption was expected "because we're going up. This is a skybridge," said Jacobs. "We are convinced we are entering a new era of modernising public transport to our province. It's a revolution," he said. Instead of being run by computerised high technology, the South African service would be labour intensive, in the interests of creating jobs and reducing poverty, he said. The project was expected to create 100 permanent jobs per kilometre. It would create 5000 jobs during construction with another 2400 at the factory. While round-trip tickets were expected to cost R10 each, rides between stations would cost less, to encourage inner-city travelling in Soweto — between shopping centres, stadia and major heritage sites. The entire route would take 45 minutes to cover at an average speed of 40 kilometres an hour, with a peak speed of 80 kilometres an hour. Trains would run every 10 to 15 minutes and every three minutes during peaks.   Sapa

 

I'm very well settling in SA with very hot architecture projects ! My MobYJo project (find comment in previous post) is going to be presented wealthy client (cooooooooool) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Gwen -  

si vous êtes là c sûrement parceque je vous ai envoyé le lien vers mon blog WELCOME! Alors gspr ke vous allez promener votre regard critique sur les différents albums, aimer les liens en liste, et me faire part de votre avis dans vos commentaires. Pour vous remercier de votre visite et abuser de votre patience, deux petits poèmes de ma composition :

 

A Bertrand d’At 

Aux Danseurs du Ballet de l’Opéra National du Rhin                                      and the other short one in english this time

Les Murailles d’Hermine                                               TOO YOUNG

Aux nobles corps                                                                                        I live my present in a past tense

Aux sexes qui pleurent                                                                              My futur blocked up by the fence

De vouloir qu’ils s’affleurent                                                                Of false fatherhood pretends

De ne pouvoir encore                                                                                 I hope I could once sense 

                                                                                                                        Daddy

La douleur est le don de la quête                                                          But know I won't be that lenght

Qui cherche l’autre pour l’être                                                               Happy

Quand c’est par l’âme que le corps se meut                                         'cause the man who should have been mine

C’est le contact déchirant du tissu qui émeut                                     had forced his body in my mind

                                                                                                                        and steal in me the Child

Il n’y a de plus douces murailles                                                            Whenever, never too young to remind.

Que celles où l’homme s’entaille.

Hello ! I wish You a Happy New Year 2007 whoever You are, and hope You'll find this interesting.

Bonjour ! Je vous souhaite à tous une Bonne Année 2007 ! Les albums photos concernant MoByJo vous présentent mon dernier projet d'archi et d'urbanisme sur Johannesburg (Afrique du Sud). Les commentaires sont en anglais mais le contenu des images donne un aperçu parlant du projet.

 

MoByJo is the main project I worked on last year. Since my trip (Dec 2005) in South Africa, it took approximately 8 month to analyse, understand and assess the existing and the needs, design the transport and urban project, write the memoir "architecture and identity : intermodal facilieties for Johannesburg". And the rendering stage took almost a month, for the plates, models and powerpoint to look convincing. Here (in pictures) is what it is (almost) all about.

 

 

 

 More than helpfull link : http://www.joburg.org.za/

 

 

 

 

 

This is about me :

French (still)

Free (hope forever)

Female

Born in Strasbourg (headquarter of Europe, don't U know ?) in 1979

Licence : tourism car

 

Well educated in  :

Walbourg Seminaire de Jeunes from 1990 to 1997. That was, maybe still is, one of the best private school isolated in a desperated and how so beautiful countryside.

Learned there, well almost everything they teach, even latin for 5 years, bases of prog, german for 7 years (maybe listening "radio regenbogen" help much more), arts, sciences and some of the english I always try to improve by reading in this beloved language. Get by the way the baccalauréat S (school leaving certificate) svt (science spe biologie).

Also confirmed there that You better trust nature than humans, but they are so intrigated, let's try to find beauty everywhere.

Then :

maybe I could explain why if You ask, but here U will just learn that before enterring architectur school, I spend a year in biologie faculty, another in medecine and one last in law...

Join the ENSAS (strasbourg national advanced school of architecture) in 2000 :) and obtained my marks like a good girl (almost)

From there :

I plan to move in SA soon, just after graduating ( project on Joburg city public transport and identifying architecture )

NOW :

I got my DPLG, diploma delivered by the french government after six years of study in architecture with first class honours ( cum Laude ) and highly commended for the MoByJo project " architecture and identity : intermodal facilities for Johannesburg. Dec the 8th 2006. YES !

 

Experiences :

First funny one in 1996 : a little survey on almost 200 over 16 years old students (some teachers and the director) in my private school about...homosexuality. (keep in mind it was an only boy christian boarding school) THAT was really interresting.

 

In 1997 :

ooolalalala, j'en ai déjà marre ! la suite pt être un jour...