Article: E-tolling intended to help reduce congestion

E-tolling was intended to help reduce congestion on Gauteng's roads, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said in Johannesburg on Friday.

"The Gauteng freeway improvement project was conceived as part of a strategy to solve the problem of congestion on the Gauteng highways.
 
lol... by moving them where else? Where else have you made extra provisions for the increased traffic load?

This is basically a full on admission by the ANC government that they have no freaking clue how to run a country properly.
 
yes, they want to subsidize the other white elephant (The gautrain).
 
So when you say

"The bulk of the province's public transport was road-based. With increasing congestion, even public transport would be rendered inefficient. Most of the roads had reached the end of their design capacity."

Why not build new roads? - Instead of charging us more to use the existing ones?

What is this I don't even
 
Garyvdh said:
lol... by moving them where else? Where else have you made extra provisions for the increased traffic load?

This is basically a full on admission by the ANC government that they have no freaking clue how to run a country properly.
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well they did implement penalty travel fees during peak hours in London, it has some success, however the money generated from these penalties aren't suppose to go for the maintenance of the project itself (that is what any infrastructure textbook will tell you).
 
Nicodeamus said:
well they did implement penalty travel fees during peak hours in London, it has some success, however the money generated from these penalties aren't suppose to go for the maintenance of the project itself (that is what any infrastructure textbook will tell you).
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Difference being London's well established mass transit systems.
 
Nicodeamus said:
the fact that the money has to go to uphold the E-toll system proves that Mohlantle is lying through his teeth.
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The fact he's a politician proves he's lying through his teeth :D
 
Nicodeamus said:
yes, they want to subsidize the other white elephant (The gautrain).
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I dunno how you regard it as a white elephant. It is barely a year old and already running above 50 percent capacity. Now that the jhb link is open that number is only going to climb.

If anything I would love the network to be greatly expanded.
 
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Garyvdh said:
lol... by moving them where else? Where else have you made extra provisions for the increased traffic load?

This is basically a full on admission by the ANC government that they have no freaking clue how to run a country properly.
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Yeah. If the vehicles don't use the freeway system, they are going to use secondary routes, which haven't been properly maintained. Pushing traffic into and through the suburbs will almost certainly increase travelling time and accidents.

Shayd said:
I dunno how you regard it as a white elephant. It is barely a year old and already running above 50 percent capacity. Now that the jhb link is open that number is only going to climb.

If anything I would love the network to be greatly expanded.
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Park Station is making a big difference. Colleagues are taking about taking this route and their happy experiences.

Would love to use something like this from the west into the CBD.
 
"E-tolling intended to help reduce congestion" - Kgalema

we all know THAT ya idjit!

whether you have been successful is another question... the issue is not that we don't agree with the idea, we just don't agree with the funding model.... and probably with all the related corruption, once that is made known!

Let's go back 14 years to 1998.... EVERYBODY with a bit of knowledge of the electricity sector, said that Eskom would run out of capacity in 2007 and that new power stations had to be planned and built - you dumb ANC fvckwitts didn't!

AIDS didn't exist according to the ANC.... 300 000 deaths later, the ANC acknowledged that maybe it does....

Run this country!!
 
Do they honestly think we use these roads for the fun of it? The roads are congested because we use them for work, you stupid dumbass!
 
South Africa is one of the few countries in the world were everyone has this entitlement complex about driving their own car to work. People in most other countries use car pooling, busses and taxis. Once being a snob on our roads becomes too expensive then maybe people will start using those three options which already exist and in turn that will stimulate more public transport.

If you can't afford the tolls and you're thinking about alternative routes then you're doing it wrong. You should rather be looking at alternative methods of transport.
 
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