. The Committee was keen to understand the SADC Protocol on Rail and requests the Department to provide the protocol document by SADC on rail. . The Committee requested the Department to respond in writing on the total legal costs that the department had to pay on a case involving an accident that occurred due to lack of road maintenance. The Committee was of the view that the department could have avoided the legal court case, had they properly maintained their roads and urged that in future such accidents should be avoided. . Shovakalula is a programme that enables children who walk for more that 5 kilometres in the rural areas to obtain free bicycles. Those bicycles are not manufactured locally and therefore the programme is not assisting in the poverty reduction initiative and not addressing the high unemployment challenge. The Committee requested the department to explore alternatives on manufacturing bicycles in South Africa, to assist in job creation. . The Committee requested the department to develop clear coordination and inter-relatedness of its programmes by focusing on implementation. . The Committee requested the department to align its strategic plan to the findings of the national household survey relating to issues such as high cost travelling of a person. The findings of the survey indicated the cost of travelling for an individual to be more than 10 percent and that was viewed as a serious challenge. The Committee believes that it should not cost more that 10 percent of a person's income to travel. . The Committee requested DOT to develop a comprehensive plan in the rural areas for public transport since most people in the rural areas use taxis which are not subsidised by government and the challenge of un-roadworthy buses still remains. There is no adequate transportation for old people in the rural areas some still get their pension money using wheelbarrows and this was unacceptable. . The committee was concerned about the unfunded mandates yet they had passed legislation to deal with sources of funding and the committee recommends urgent engagements between the DOT and National Treasury on this matter. . The Committee recommends that the department should address the inter-sphere coordination challenge by re-focusing and targeting poor people in the rural areas particularly on budgeting and halving poverty by 2014. . The Committee requested the department to report on a country wide road assessment infrastructure. . The Committee requested a briefing by the Department on the restructuring process of the Road Accident Fund (RAF), particularly the no-fault policy that has been recently established. . The first democratically elected president of South Africa launched the "masakhane" campaign in 1995 relating to infrastructure and service delivery. The key issues relating to transport were the uneven levels of development in the country. The campaign identified three different types of services namely, adequate services where government's role is to maintain the existing services and infrastructure so that they do not degrade. The Committee recommends to the department that in areas where there are inadequate services, the department should upgrade and improve services to close the gap between the poor and wealthy. The department should make provision for areas where there are no services and this was a concern because the department could not indicate the percentage of their budget allocated to maintenance, upgrading and provision of services. . The department did not indicate clearly its allocation of resources on issues arising from the "Masakhane" campaign. The Committee requested the department to familiarise itself with the reconstruction and development programme and the Masakhane campaign document.