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Visitors For the World Cup Face Transport Difficulties in South Africa
The country has spent 2.6 billion dollars (1.9 billion euros) ahead of the June 11 kick-off to fix roads, expand airports, build a high-speed train and launch new bus networks.
But the expected 373,000 foreign visitors still won't find it easy to get between and around the nine host cities, some analysts say.
"They're going to be both disappointed and, I must say, shocked," Paul Browning, an independent transport consultant, told AFP.
Airfares between host cities, which initially rose by up to 215 percent for key match dates, have dropped again after a price-fixing investigation by anti-trust authorities.
But the launch of a new bus network meant to link host cities is still uncertain, with the tender for the buses awarded less than three months before kick-off.
South African roads are some of the most dangerous in the world. The country ranks ninth in the world in traffic fatalities despite having just 9.2 million vehicles.
South African officials have hailed investment in public transport as a lasting legacy of the World Cup.
But after decades of apartheid policies designed to separate instead of connect people, developing modern mass-transit will still take much more time and money, analysts say.
"Under apartheid, cities were meant for whites only, and Africans, especially, were kind of like migrant labourers," said Ibrahim Seedat of the Department of Transportation.
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