new Toll Gates

[jamieb]

The ANC government is erecting over 40 new toll gates around the country.

As a law abiding tax payer, it has been calculated that I receive only an 8% return on my tax Rands. Due to lack of service delivery on the part of government, I am required to pay also for schooling for my kinds, physical security, social security and municipal services. Now, I am also to pay for road infrastructure. How can the government honestly justify imposing these additional road levies?

Any further taxes and you are likely to see further escalation of the exodus of skilled professional people away from South Africa. Already over 1 million skilled South Africans have left, in part due to poor performance on the part of government. Its time the government delivered on our tax Rands instead of asking for more.

Do your part and send a FAX to the government to put a stop to these ill-deserved and ill-conceived plans:http://theyare.ravingmad.co.za/

 

[samuelp]

Just a question : in France, almost all the highroads have tollgates, with unacceptable prices (From Paris to Tours, which is 200 km, we have to pay 20 €.

Fortunately we have our good old roads called "nationales" in France, which are totally Free. Can't you use tax-free roads to go from Point A to Point B ?
(Paris->Tours with HighRoads : 2h30. Paris->Tours with "Nationales" : 4h15)

 

[stoke]

I agree ... I calculated that I only get to spend 17% of my hard earned money.
It's absolute BS.

 

[kingmonty]

Just a question : in France, almost all the highroads have tollgates, with unacceptable prices (From Paris to Tours, which is 200 km, we have to pay 20 €.

Fortunately we have our good old roads called "nationales" in France, which are totally Free. Can't you use tax-free roads to go from Point A to Point B ?
(Paris->Tours with HighRoads : 2h30. Paris->Tours with "Nationales" : 4h15)

The problem is that the ANC government is converting all highways to toll roads - especially in Gauteng. The only alternative you have is to take back roads that are not well maintained and terribly congested. Currently I take around 1 hour to commute to work. Once when I took an alternative route due to a car accident on the highway that closed 2 of the four lanes, it took me 2.5 hours.

If you ever need to take Main road as an alternative to the N1 - you'll be lucky to make it without some damage to your shocks and possibly your tyres.

There just aren't viable alternatives in this country. Anyway, in Gauteng the introduction of the toll road system seems to be more as a way to force people onto the Gautrain, which is a ludicrous mentality seemingly standard in the ANC.

 

[Morgoth]

The problem is that the ANC government is converting all highways to toll roads - especially in Gauteng. The only alternative you have is to take back roads that are not well maintained and terribly congested. Currently I take around 1 hour to commute to work. Once when I took an alternative route due to a car accident on the highway that closed 2 of the four lanes, it took me 2.5 hours.

If you ever need to take Main road as an alternative to the N1 - you'll be lucky to make it without some damage to your shocks and possibly your tyres.

There just aren't viable alternatives in this country. Anyway, in Gauteng the introduction of the toll road system seems to be more as a way to force people onto the Gautrain, which is a ludicrous mentality seemingly standard in the ANC.

Couldn't agree more, its also not like we see these toll roads in good quality either take for example the one to Bronkhorstspruit its a decent road but you can see that its not that well maintained no one knows where these money go to.

Also all the heavy trucks take the alternative road and they delay traffic by even more its just retarded that the ANC puts up a toll road almost everywhere in PTA now I wouldn't mind paying if I actually saw these money go for the good of our roads.

 

[Turiko]

By now you should all have realised that the ANC's main aim is to bleed it's citizens dry. 'Tis the African way. Keep the masses in poverty while the politicians live it up.