A speedy new route, between Chancellor House and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, is up and running through Braamfontein.

INNER city commuters can now travel along the two new Rea Vaya routes from Chancellor House to the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) and back.

The route runs from Chancellor House in Fox Street, past the University of the Witwatersrand and the Johannesburg Theatre Complex in Braamfontein to JAG along Constitution Hill and then back to Chancellor House.

Circular buses follow two routes

Launched on 26 July, the C3 route is R3,50 per trip.

Jeff Ngcobo, the operations manager at Rea Vaya, says: "These new routes were introduced to increase the reach and to halve travelling times of commuters."

Going to the gallery, the one route starts at Chancellor House  and goes along Library Gardens, past Rissik and Kerk, Rissik and Plein, Loveday and Wolmarans, Melle and Juta, De Korte and De Beer, De Korte and Henri, Eendracht and Jorissen, Orion House, Metropolitan Centre, Kotze, the Bathouse and ending at the JAG.

Going to Chancellor House in the west of the inner city, the route starts at the JAG and passes the Bathouse, Kotze, Metropolitan Centre, De Korte and De Beer, De Korte and Henri, Eendracht and Jorissen, Orion House, Biccard and Juta, Harrison and Leyds, Harrison and Plein, and Harrison and Klerk before stopping at Chancellor House.

The routes are good for sightseeing too, as they pass attractions such as Constitution Hill, Origins Centre, Planetarium, Museum Africa and the JAG, the biggest gallery on the sub-continent, with an art collection larger than that of the South African National Art Gallery in Cape Town, among others.

Constitution Hill is an historical landmark. It houses the Old Fort, which includes three former prisons where anti-apartheid activists were incarcerated, and is home to South Africa's highest court, the Constitutional Court.

At Wits, the Origins Centre is filled with historical artefacts that track humans from their earliest beginnings, while visitors to the Planetarium are able to explore the stars and planets in the sky above Earth.

Museum Africa, in Newtown, stores the history of the city and the country, while the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre, not far from the museum, is home to all things mathematical, scientific and technological.

For more information on bus times, click here, and about ticket information, click here.

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