Whether, with reference to the reply to question 898 on 20 April 2018, his department has communicated the final warning to the City of Ekurhuleni (CoE) Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) project team in March 2019 with an ultimatum of six months to rebalance costs and revenues and move to viability (details furnished); if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, whether he will furnish Mr C H Hunsinger with (a) a copy of the warning communication to the CoE and (b) their responses thereto;
(2) whether he has found that the operating costs are based on a very limited curbside pre-pilot service with six operational buses initially and while this would have been palatable if scaled up to a Phase 1-like 40 buses and then 80 buses carrying over 20 000 average weekday passenger trips within six months to a year, this did not happen and hence the current scale of costs and ridership is unbalanced and unviable, and that despite two years of appeals by his department, the city has proven incapable of correcting this; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details?