Gauteng could use e-toll gantries to make R14.9 million per day from speeding fines

TheChamp said:
Road safety and money making aren't mutually exclusive, if you can make money while enforcing road safety, why not?
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You missed the point completely. It has never had anything to do with road safety. It's not possible to twist something that was designed to grease the corrupt palms of ANC cadres, BEEs and AAs into something that is for the good of the people, this is simply not in the ANC DNA.
 
Tax payers are expected to take on 30% of the e-toll debt of R47 billion, while tax payers will foot the bill for the remaining amount.
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FIFY
 
Grubscrew said:
I wasn't aware that one could go faster than 100km/h during most day light hours, because there is always a BMW 320d in the fast lane doing 87km/h in their attempt to get great consumption figures.
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Everyone knows that keeping under 88km/h keeps you in the present, the current day and month and year.

Also, it's safer to paint nails at such low speeds.
 
SilverCode said:
Speeding fines should never be seen as a source of revenue. It is a deterrent and a punishment.

Because then you lead to resources being diverted to trying to generate as much revenue as possible. Instead of clamping down on unroadworthy cars or overloaded taxis who you know won't pay, you focus on hiding in bushes with speed cameras to catch someone doing 61 km/h in a 60 km/h zone.
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There is absolutely no reason for that, unroadworthy cars and overloaded taxis are also a source of income, enforce the rules while making money, I don't get this nonsensical idea that if you do one you can't do the other, hand out speeding fines and also fine and overloaded taxis.

Make money while enforcing the traffic rules, absolutely nothing wrong with that.
 
TheChamp said:
No idea on the amount, but I believe there's klomp money to be made looking at the general lawlessness on the roads.
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The gantries will only cover average speed. General lawlessness needs actually law enforcement officers doing real work.

For the gantries to operate as average speed cameras, there must be signs warning motorists of such things. Do you expect the “lawlessness” to continue after the signs go up?
 
wingnut771 said:
The gantries will only cover average speed. General lawlessness needs actually law enforcement officers doing real work.

For the gantries to operate as average speed cameras, there must be signs warning motorists of such things. Do you expect the “lawlessness” to continue after the signs go up?
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Yes, do all that and make money for the government.
 
If they haven't done it by now, they never will. Also, no one pays speeding fines lol
 
Corrupt ways of making money through gantries. Remove the gantries is the only way unless govmint not interested to eradicate corruption.
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Luckily unlike all these corrupt and lawless citizens, I am a law abiding citizen, so this would not affect me.
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They always find a way to make a buck out of you.

Got my first fine in about 15 years on Sunday. Cops were stopping people (literally everyone) at OR Tambo pick up zone who didn't come to a complete stop at the pedestrian crossing. Everyone was crawling along at 10km/hr and going through if it was safe and clear, then getting pulled over by cops. Easy money, literally 5 cops handing out fines the whole day as fast as they can write them.

Here's the spot. Stop sign is also surrounded by no stopping signs.

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