OUTA predicts e-toll crash

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As the year turns - amid an ongoing dispute over government's freshly implemented open-road tolling system in Gauteng - the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) predicts a "very successful" civil action defiance campaign against e-tolls, "the largest in our new democracy".
The alliance's end-of-year prophecy rests on the back of a string of issues it says motorists have brought to its attention since e-tolling went live on 3 December – including telephonic harassment, unsolicited advertising, onerous payment methods for non-registered road users and outdated data. This, says Outa, alongside an overall sentiment of defiance against a system the anti-toll group has deemed unjust and unworkable from the get-go.
The SA National Roads Agency (Sanral) – however – maintains the road tax project it was tasked with running has solid grounds and is buoyed by a "world-class electronic system" that will not only be workable, but also beneficial.
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Read more (Debt duty,Payment system, Data conflict etc.)
 
Does anyone know when this idiotic project will hit the N1 in Cape Town ?
 
Its coming to all provinces, not just the Cape...

SANRAL want to hits Durbs with it as well.. and good luck with that, I won't bloody pay... there are enough toll roads in KZN as it is, so SANRAL can fek off.
 
marine1 said:
Wait all the cape people who questioned us complaining, it's coming your way soon
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LOL, what ever. It took Sanral close to 4 years to get the tolls running. And that was before anyone actually really tried to stop them. The amount of hoops they'll need to jump through will delay them at least another 4 years before they evens start building tolls in the capes.
 
marine1 said:
Wait all the cape people who questioned us complaining, it's coming your way soon
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I think there might be a difference here marine1. E-toll in Gauteng is catching the daily commuters on their way to work, yes? The N1 between Old Oak and Worcester will not have this kind of impact on the working people in the Cape
 
Bugatti said:
I think there might be a difference here marine1. E-toll in Gauteng is catching the daily commuters on their way to work, yes? The N1 between Old Oak and Worcester will not have this kind of impact on the working people in the Cape
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Colleague lives by Sir Lowry's and works in town 2x2 tolls per day.

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biometrics said:
Colleague lives by Sir Lowry's and works in town 2x2 tolls per day.
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I realise there are people out in the Winelands and Somerset West areas working in CT, Southern Suburbs etc. ,but they are not as many as the folk out in the Northern Suburbs working out that way. At least that is what I think when looking at the traffic. Stats would be nice to see.

Still, looking at that map, there's a lot of people in the line of fire. It's the daily commuters who's at risk for those areas
 
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Bugatti said:
I realise there are people out in the Winelands and Somerset West areas working in CT, Southern Suburbs etc. ,but they are not as many as the folk out in the Northern Suburbs working out that way. At least that is what I think when looking at the traffic. Stats would be nice to see.
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From Stellenbosch there are a lot of commuters: 2x1 a day.
 
From what I saw majority of the traffic dis/appears from about stellenbosh turn off. And road conditions are good except between R300 to stellenbosch turn off/R44 on the n1 where you can see it's still mostly the original surface where other parts have been resurfaced.

Will they be making it a 3 or 4 lane highway?
 
Urban/metro tolling is just plain wrong. In fact our constitution guarantees freedom of movement. This schit has to be stopped now in Joburg.
 
SaiyanZ said:
The colleague has bigger problems driving 120km a day. That's around 10l of petrol with an average car. R132 per day at current prices.
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Actually takes the train but a lot of people do drive.
 
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