E-tolling of Gauteng freeways got the legal nod on Thursday when the high court in Pretoria on Thursday dismissed an application to have the project scrapped. “The application is dismissed,” Judge Louis Vorster said, reading out his judgment. “In my view the application cannot succeed.” Vorster
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Gauteng motorists will have to get accustomed to paying for the use of the highways as e-tolling could not be undone, the high court in Pretoria heard on Tuesday. “Tolling can’t be undone,” said lawyer David Unterhalter, acting for roads agency Sanral. “People drive on the upgraded roads
The initial notice of the intention to toll roads in Gauteng by roads agency Sanral was “sterile” and “misleading”, the high court in Pretoria heard on Monday. Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) lawyer Mike Maritz argued that the public was not aware of what Sanral’s Gauteng Freeway
From cameras that allow for the three-dimensional rendering of vehicles through to the hundreds of kilometres of fibre-optic cables that link the toll gantries and control offices, Gauteng’s e-tolls project is a marvel of modern technology. Alex van Niekerk
The e-tag system will be rolled out at toll plazas in provinces other than Gauteng, roads agency Sanral said on Wednesday. “We want to use this technology at the very toll system that we [presently] have. There is a roll-out programme within the existing programme,” said Sanral
E-tolling of Gauteng’s freeways could be a reality before Christmas in terms of time frames announced on Friday. Transport minister Ben Martins said Friday marked the beginning of the 30-day public consultation process, after cabinet agreed on revised
Auditor-general Terence Nombembe gave roads agency Sanral’s books the thumbs-up recently, although it is struggling against losses of more than R2bn because of financing costs on its tolling operations, thanks largely to the delay in e-tolling to pay for the Gauteng freeway improvement project
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan has called for cool heads to prevail in the Gauteng e-tolling saga, and said the government was seeking a win-win approach for all involved. “Theoretically, if the government wants to go and collect tolls tomorrow, it can go ahead and collect them, but that’s not the issue,” Gordhan told
Cosatu threatened mass action on Thursday against e-tolling in Gauteng after the constitutional court overturned an interdict to halt the project. “We are going to resist it with every power we have,” general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi told reporters on the sidelines of Cosatu’s 11th national congress in Midrand
In a judgment handed down on Thursday, the constitutional court set aside an interim order that put on hold a plan to toll highways in Gauteng. “The interim order granted by the high court on 28 April 2012 is set aside,” said deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke. This was because the high court