Electronic tolling of Gauteng’s freeways will lead to enhanced economic growth, deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe said on Tuesday. “Through enhanced traffic flow and accessibility, the project will contribute significantly to economic growth,” he said. Efforts to ease congestion on Gauteng’s freeways had to be welcomed
Gauteng motorists have run up more than half a billion rand in overdue fees since the province’s e-tolling system started on 3 December last year, according to transport minister Dipuo Peters. Less than 10% of this has been paid. “I am informed that … as at 1 March
Sanral collected R250m from electronic tolling in Gauteng in the first three months of implementation, it said on Wednesday. “An amount of R250,8m has been received as at 28 February 2014,” the roads agency’s chief financial officer, Inge Mulder, said. “Sanral wishes to thank
No court action has been taken against non-paying e-toll motorists so far, the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance said on Monday. “They have not summonsed anyone yet, otherwise we would know about it,” spokesman John Clarke said. “They ought to be doing that as they have had enough time since December
An application to declare the e-tolling legislation unconstitutional and invalid was dismissed by the Western Cape high court on Thursday. “The application is dismissed. The parties shall bear their own costs,” Judge Owen Rogers said. He said the Democratic Alliance, which
The proposed N1/N2 Winelands Toll Highway Project for the Western Cape will introduce traditional toll booths rather than e-tolling gantries, roads agency Sanral said on Tuesday. “You’d call it a traditional toll. It’s a boom down situation where you go, you stop, you pay and you go,” project engineer
Roads agency Sanral needs to be transparent on e-tag sales in light of the impression it was creating that motorists were “clamouring” to be tagged, the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) said on Monday. “Sanral’s number of 1,2m e-tags ‘taken up’ is hogwash
Roads agency Sanral has been ordered to fix billing problems related to the Gauteng e-toll system, transport minister Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday. Briefing parliament’s transport portfolio committee, Peters conceded there were teething problems with
The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) has urged parliament’s transport portfolio committee to look beyond roads agency Sanral’s input on Tuesday. “Sanral speaks like a soccer coach whose team has lost 2-0 with an own goal having been scored and
Parliament’s transport portfolio committee will be briefed on Gauteng’s e-tolls on Tuesday, roads agency Sanral said. “We look forward to the opportunity to explain what went wrong with e-tolling, but also what went right,” spokesman Vusi Mona said in a statement on Monday. Of the 2,6m vehicles
