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The Gauteng E-tolling Thread
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MagicDude4Eva
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Went to Fourways and Douglasdale shopping centres earlier on and did a non-scientific count of e-tag holders - and here are my "expert" findings:
- I have not come across elderly people without a tag (driving mostly those little tin-can cars)
- (sorry if you own an Audi/Merc and are not tagged) what is it with Audi- (any model) and Merc (especially SUV) having tags? Almost seems to be the new powerbalance band for those people
- Out of 20 cars only counted 1 tagged (new car game: see how far you can count until you spot a tag)
- I have not come across elderly people without a tag (driving mostly those little tin-can cars)
- (sorry if you own an Audi/Merc and are not tagged) what is it with Audi- (any model) and Merc (especially SUV) having tags? Almost seems to be the new powerbalance band for those people
- Out of 20 cars only counted 1 tagged (new car game: see how far you can count until you spot a tag)
koeksGHT
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The real criminals, financial terrorists. From their site, add their emails to spam sites
koeksGHT
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Why not get all South Africans to key anyone's car with an etag. Would get a message through very quick..
Sounds about right for what I have seen at Cresta, Clearwater Mall and Westgate shopping centers. I also found your Merc, Lexus, BMW, etc., cars to be tagged the most. I suppose they really do not want to go through all of the troubles they are being threatened with.
The queues are still lining up however...
Lol, while true I do not believe in bringing such type of damage.
Besides, imagine all the high-range vehicles claiming from insurance - we will be punished with higher premiums ourselves the next year....
MagicDude4Eva
Banned
Not really - picture of Sanral shop at Cedar Square. Security tried to escort me out but backed off when I started taking photos of them and told them to F-of or lay charges of assault against them
koeksGHT
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Not we, etag holders who claim
I prefer not to resort to physical damage(unless it's a Sanral vehicle)
It now is gonna cost me ~R40 to visit my mom per visit
and she can't afford it to even go anywhere now. Back roads are long and more dangerous now business is now almost closed because tolls cost too much and if they increase price they loose basically all business.The poor are most affected and they already have nothing
This cannot happen. End of discussion. Assuming the next government if so doesn't eventually scrap it what do we so?
Literally starve and die
I haven't been past there in a couple of months but I don't recall the etrolling shop at CS having quite as much public floor space as that (especially depth), did they make some drywall alterations or move to a bigger shop?
koeksGHT
Dealer
Must be our tax money at work.
Why don't we get a choice where our tax money goes? Or do we just hand the government the bank account of all our money and keys to mint? Why have we not held the government accountable as a nation. Where are our riots like Ukraine ?
The answer to that question is the same as the answer to this question:
Why didn't king Zumatello ask nicely if he could spend more than R200m of tax payers' money on himself?
Which has a similar answer to the question "why do dogs lick their gonads?"
Coming back to the etrolling shop at CS, maybe they thought they wouldn't need any back office storage space due to all the etags they were going to sell and made extra public floor space available for all the sheep they were expecting to slaughter.
MagicDude4Eva
Banned
As far as I remember it's the same shop (the one on the upper level close to the entrance of Virgin) - perhaps the way the shot was taken is deceptive - I got shouted at when I stepped in and tried to take a picture so I did it from the outside
Even if there are a bit of queues. I would have expected a lot more people queuing up. We have over 2 million cars in GP. So far I haven't spotted more than 50 tags on windows of cars. If I were SANRAL, I'd be very concerned. Already it looks like the violation rate is far higher than they expected.
koeksGHT
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They must already be printing over 1M invoices.
The threats are gonna start soon now to force people into paying, final demands etc. All empty words if we stand together
Noseworthy
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Gotta love the GPS. Had to drive to the vaal and GPS took me on back roads and quicker than the folks that took the highway
koeksGHT
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Yeah I normally drive back routes anyway. But sometimes you have to use the Payway.
bullzeye.za
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So here's something fun.
I dropped the below mail to [email protected], just to see what they would reply with. Turned on delivery and read receipts ( because, why not? )
What I got back from them is a "Message deleted without being read" response. Apparently this mailbox just wipes out mails after they're a few days old.
Before anyone says anything, I know that the system is not meant to allow me access to view my etolls if I'm not registered ( Despite what the URL might suggest ) - But any member of the public who'd read that article might think differently.
I dropped the below mail to [email protected], just to see what they would reply with. Turned on delivery and read receipts ( because, why not? )
What I got back from them is a "Message deleted without being read" response. Apparently this mailbox just wipes out mails after they're a few days old.
Before anyone says anything, I know that the system is not meant to allow me access to view my etolls if I'm not registered ( Despite what the URL might suggest ) - But any member of the public who'd read that article might think differently.
koeksGHT
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Yeah, it's just lies and threats.
It's been way more than 7 days and SANRAL has been rather quiet.. They must be struggling
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