South Africa, with help from IBM, Cisco, and even, astonishingly, Ford, is studying the establishment of "mobility hubs" to facilitate use of transit by white.... South Africa, with help from IBM, Cisco, and even, astonishingly, Ford, is studying the establishment of "mobility hubs" to facilitate use of transit by white collar workers, who have traditionally shunned public transit as "dangerous."

The new hubs are meant to make it easier for timid suits to change among buses, trains, and rental bikes to get to work without further burdening the hideously congested roads of Cape Town, since, as "green taxi" service operator Andrew Russell notes, "White collar workers cause 90 percent of the (transit) problems."

From the article:

The Cape Town project leaders are working with some of the city's largest employers to create group transportation solutions. One of the options is to provide security guards on trains and to escort workers on a "walking bus" to their office that would address safety concerns. "It's totally out of the box thinking for business people in South Africa to take public transport to work," says Claire Janisch, of the Cape Town Business Partnership. So far employers Investec, Woolworth's, Nebank and BP have expressed interest in changing commuting behaviors for workers who live in the suburbs, she says.

An interesting and detailed article which you can read in its entirety at Matter Network.