The Gauteng E-tolling Thread

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McSack said:
That is great news. Can't wait for someone to try prosecute these okes for using the toll roads.
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They simply won't, as is the case now with the general lawlessness the taxi's bring to the roads.

The Metro and etoll scum will just pick on the general public as usual.
 
Anti-etolls protest goes airborne

An aircraft towing an anti e-tolls banner took to the skies of Johannesburg on Tuesday as part of a new DA protest.

The red and blue banner read: "fight e-tolls, vote DA". The plane circled Germiston, on the East Rand, before flying over all the newly-tolled routes.

Democratic Alliance Gauteng premier candidate Mmusi Maimane said people needed to use their votes to fight e-tolling.

"If people oppose tolling, they must vote for a party that opposes it," he told reporters in Johannesburg.

"If you oppose tolling, you must oppose the current government."

He reiterated that motorists were under no obligation to register for e-tags and said he would not register his own car.

The SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) went live with its collection of e-tolls on Gauteng highways shortly after midnight, following several unsuccessful attempts to halt its implementation.

Transport Minister Dipuo Peters announced on November 20 that the e-tolling of Gauteng's highways would begin on Tuesday.

On Monday, an application by the Freedom Front Plus to stop e-tolling was struck from the roll by the High Court in Pretoria, for lack of urgency.

The DA said it intended taking its fight against e-tolling to the courts, arguing that the legislation providing for e-tolls was incorrectly tagged as national, rather than provincial.

Maimane said that when the matter came to court, the constitutionality of e-toll collections would be tested.

The DA launched a campaign against e-tolling last month. It erected a billboard on the N3 highway in Germiston with the slogan "A vote for the DA is a vote against e-tolls".

African National Congress spokesman Dumisa Ntuli said at the time: "The DA uses e-tolling as a trump card to entice voters because they are divided on issues of leadership, equity and BBBEE [broad-based black economic empowerment]."


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Date : 03 Dec 2013 11:47
 
garp said:
I am willing to bet you anything SANRAL will happily let unregistered motorists run up two/three/four months of tolls and then announce that they will prosecute anyone who hasn't paid to the full extent of the law with scare stories and horror tactics.

They will announce that they are preparing 250 000 summonses and even start sending out a few thousand threatening criminal records, etc so that everyone knows someone who knows someone who got summonsed. While everyone is panicking and outraged about this, they will then announce that in a display of goodwill they will offer an amnesty to all "perpetrators" on condition they get an e-tag, register and pay within 30 days.

It is at this point, that, faced with the reality of criminal charges and fines, most will cave in and the SANRAL booths will be swamped with hundreds of thousands of Gautengers queuing to avoid the deadline.

SANRAL are not stupid, they know there is huge public resistance, so they also have probably obtained the best PR/propaganda/mass manipulation advice for herding the sheeple. It is a long term strategy that will be fought over months. If we know what to expect we can come up with strategies to counteract it.
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Give this man a Bell's
This is indeed the most likely scenario, probably so close to the truth it hurts!
 
 
Cosatu vows to continue fight

Cosatu has vowed to continue its fight against the user-pays principle on Gauteng freeways until the government listens to the people.

"December 3 will represent the day on which our government has refused to listen to the views of the people and the poor," Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) Gauteng secretary Dumisani Dakile said on Tuesday.

He said the government had demonstrated its stubbornness and unwillingness to co-operate with the workers.

"It represents a clear demonstration of cadres who have been power-drunk and believe that they could do as they so wish," Dakile told reporters in Johannesburg.

The e-tolling of Gauteng's highways came into effect on Tuesday.


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Date : 03 Dec 2013 12:34
 
African National Congress spokesman Dumisa Ntuli said at the time: "The DA uses e-tolling as a trump card to entice voters because they are divided on issues of leadership, equity and BBBEE [broad-based black economic empowerment]."
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And the ANC uses food parcels and t-shirts..... suck it up ******* wipe....
 
This was apparently posted on Facebook at some point today

got stopped 3 times and asked where is my etag,told them not going to buy one,and was told that they will be increasing road blocks on back roads to force people back to the highways,they will take there time checking cars/trucks etc.

all taxis were let through,even checked my number plate holder,tyres lights,everything,kept there for about half an hour.

they told me going to be easier to buy etoll then i will have less hassel,so seems as law enforcement are working hand in hand with
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E-toll tarrifs exaggerated: Peters

Expected monthly e-toll tariffs have been exaggerated by critics, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday.

"Expected monthly tariffs payable by light motor vehicles show that about 83 percent will pay not more than R100 a month, and 0.59 percent in the same class will reach the maximum of R450," she told reporters at the SA National Roads Agency Limited's (Sanral) operations centre in Midrand.

E-tolling went into operation on many of Gauteng's highways at midnight on Monday.

Peters said the decision to proceed with the electronic tolling system (e-tolls) on Gauteng's highways had been made after due consideration.

"Sanral did not just wake up one morning and decided that it was going to toll certain sections of Gauteng highway," she said.

Cabinet had also not just approved the project without applying its mind and taking into account the country's transport policy.

"We are very disappointed that some of our citizens and leaders, including those who have in the past styled themselves as champions of the rule of the law, will not this time around accept the rule of the law," said Peters.


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Date : 03 Dec 2013 13:19
 
Garyvdh said:
Expected monthly e-toll tariffs have been exaggerated by critics, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday.

"Expected monthly tariffs payable by light motor vehicles show that about 83 percent will pay not more than R100 a month, and 0.59 percent in the same class will reach the maximum of R450," she told reporters at the SA National Roads Agency Limited's (Sanral) operations centre in Midrand.
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BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The work got all of us eTags for the company cars (they are paying for it don't ask)
I just checked my tag's usage for today:
Drove from Centurion to Rosebank, and then to Sunninghill and my "bill" is already R28.
WTF?!?!? I haven't even drove home yet, so say it is going to be R38 for today.
So just for this week it is already R152, 50% more than the 83% they keep pushing.
 
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