Cape Town's Tolls Will be Different: SANRAL

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The proposed N1-N2 Winelands toll project in Cape Town will be different to Gauteng's e-tolling system, the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) said on Thursday.

Spokesman Vusi Mona said Gauteng would have an open road tolling system with no booths on the roads, whereas Cape Town would have toll plazas with an option for motorists to pay manually.

In Cape Town, Sanral would appoint a concessionaire on a build, operate, and transfer basis to finance and maintain the road.

The City of Cape Town has taken legal steps to stop the project.

On May 16, the Western Cape High Court will hear the city's application to stop Sanral from taking further steps to implement the proposed project.

Sanral said earlier in the day that e-tolling on Gauteng roads would begin within the next two months.


Source : Sapa /ma/hdw/clh/jk
Date : 11 Apr 2013 15:52
 
One really has to question what has happened to the road maintenance fund. It was never under-funded - simply under-utilised through backlogs. We know that billions have gone missing from the fund but nothing has happened in this respect.

Additionally, do we take this as an admission on Sanral's part that their automated e-toll system is a failure, not scalable, and not applicable in other provinces, as was Alex van Niekerk's pitch to government to secure backing for e-tolling to begin with?
 
Why?
Why not use all the money raised from tax, fuel levies, Vat, CO2 tax, etc. Why do you need MORE tax?
 
Sanral knows that the Western Cape want nothing to do with these toll roads so saying that it will be different is like mixing bitter medicine with sugar so it tastes better.
 
DJ... said:
One really has to question what has happened to the road maintenance fund. It was never under-funded - simply under-utilised through backlogs. We know that billions have gone missing from the fund but nothing has happened in this respect.
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The amount of money diverted and misappropriated by the ANC must be absolutely staggering.
DJ... said:
Additionally, do we take this as an admission on Sanral's part that their automated e-toll system is a failure, not scalable, and not applicable in other provinces, as was Alex van Niekerk's pitch to government to secure backing for e-tolling to begin with?
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That's exactly what I thought. This is basically an admission of failure in regards to Gauteng and indicates that they fully expect users here not to pay.
They don't want to repeat that same mistake elsewhere, so they will force them to stop at the gantries and pay up.
 
Why can't the fuel levy be used for road maintenance? That was the intended use anyway.
 
Garyvdh said:
That's exactly what I thought. This is basically an admission of failure in regards to Gauteng and indicates that they fully expect users here not to pay.
They don't want to repeat that same mistake elsewhere, so they will force them to stop at the gantries and pay up.
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Alex van Niekerk's initial presentation to government included, as a fundamental point, references to its scalability province-wide and central collection mechanisms. He blatantly stated that Gauteng was the pilot project and that subsequent tolling would be in principle, the same e-tolling system - countrywide.

Now we have Sanral stating that WP will be different...just because. This is a clear admission of their own failure...
 
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Why can't the fuel levy be used for road maintenance? That was the intended use anyway.
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Long term there are issues with that and when you upgrade large stretches of road, your funding inevitably stretches over a long term. Ergo fuel levies will become a less and less efficient recovery mechanism, making securing funding on a long-term very difficult, as fixed income bond performances are directly linked to cash-flow projections. If cash-flow is directly and harshly subject to economic policy risk, it cannot be forecast easily and you will find yourself with a low subscription rate to your bond issuances.

As it is, Sanral had to rely on government entities such as PIC to fund this project. The private capital market wanted very little to do with it...
 
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DJ... said:
Long term there are issues with that and when you upgrade large stretches of road, your funding inevitably stretches over a long term. Ergo fuel levies will become a less and less efficient recovery mechanism, making securing funding on a long-term very difficult, as fixed income bond performances are directly linked to cash-flow projections. If cash-flow is directly and harshly subject to economic policy risk, it cannot be forecast easily and you will find yourself with a low subscription rate to your bond issuances.

As it is, Sanral had to rely on government entities such as PIC to fund this project. The private capital market wanted very little to do with it...
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Informative. Thanks
 
Cape Town would have toll plazas with an option for motorists to pay manually.
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and create even more bottlenecks? How wonderful. As bad as it is, at least traffic flows freely through the e-toll gantries.
 
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I knew they'd do this. Capetonians don't pay fines or follow road rules. The gantries would have been ignored.

The traffic is already a nightmare through Somerset West with holidays/long weekends. Imagine what it would be like if everyone had to stop and pay.

Ha ha ha ha ha ...
 
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The traffic is already a nightmare through Somerset West with holidays/long weekends. Imagine what it would be like if everyone had to stop and pay.
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That's the N2.

Uhm, are they really planning on tolling both routes ?

Where is the alternative route on the N2 ?
 
daveza said:
That's the N2.

Uhm, are they really planning on tolling both routes ?

Where is the alternative route on the N2 ?
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Yip, long stretch of the N1 and N2.

With the tunnel you can go over the mountain which I prefer actually as the tunnel smells horrible. Don't know where the alternate routes are with their plan or where the tolls will be.
 
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