The Gauteng E-tolling Thread

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http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/gauteng-r10bn-on-roads-r1bn-on-new-suburb-1.1651523#.Uwrnw_mSx8E

Johannesburg - The Gauteng government will spend R10 billion to widen two national roads in a bid to ease congestion and another billion to build a new suburb on the West Rand.

These are some of the major announcements Premier Nomvula Mokonyane was due to make on Monday in her State of the Province address when she opens this year’s sitting of the legislature.

The government will spend R5bn to upgrade each of the N14 and N12. The roads would not be tolled, she told The Star.

Mokonyane said the upgrades on the N14 would be from Krugersdorp through to Diepsloot.

The road experiences high traffic volumes during peak hours, when motorists avoid using the M1 and N1 highways, often leading to accidents.

Mokonyane said there was a need to upgrade the two national highways, but added that some of the finer details would be dealt with in her address.

Mokonyane painted a positive picture of her five-year term as premier. She said she had succeeded in forging integrated communities and suburbs.

“We have created a lot of economic opportunities and invested in quality education. We have also seen a dramatic increase in the number of pupils getting university entrance marks.

“There are also now better working relations between teachers and parent bodies. We have also reduced the number of troublesome schools, particularly in Soweto, from 200 to 80.

“Our Secondary Schools Intervention Programme is working. In the past, we used to babysit principals, but the situation has changed now. Most of them are committed to work,” Mokonyane said.

She was also expected to announce the handing over of 11 new schools to the Department of Basic Education.

Two school hostels in Magaliesburg and Fochville were also expected to be handed over to the department.

Mokonyane has committed herself to ending the Jabulani/Zola Hospital debacle.

She said the hospital would be up and running before April 27 – when the country celebrated 20 years of democracy.

“In the past, people asked me to open one wing of the hospital, and I refused. I want to give the people of Soweto a fully functional hospital.

“We have a team of quality assurance (inspectors) on site who are doing a final inspection of the hospital before we decide to do a final handover to the Health Department,” she said.

She was also expected to reveal the name of the woman appointed to be the hospital’s chief executive.

Mokonyane said the hospital delay had been caused by a lack of personnel to do project management in the Infrastructure Department.

She said the department had beefed up its staff, who had the necessary skills and academic background to do the job.

Mokonyane was also expected to announce more than R1bn to develop a new suburb in Syferfontein, which would accommodate the people of Bekkersdal, who have taken part in numerous service delivery protests.

She has also been involved in a bitter fight with some communities. In a fit of rage, Mokonyane once said the ANC did not need their “dirty” votes. She later apologised.

“We will move the people of Bekkersdal. We will explain to them that our decision was based on the fact that they were living on dolomitic land,” Mokonyane said.

She said they hoped to build 20 000 houses – a mixture of houses to rent or buy.

In April, the government would start to build two new schools.

Roads closed in CBD

President and Albertina Sisulu streets were to be blocked off from 10am on Monday at their intersections with Sauer, Harrison, Simmonds and Rissik.

A parade with drill officers from the JMPD, SAPS, Gauteng traffic police and officers on horseback was set to start on the corner of Albertina Sisulu and Sauer streets, turning left in Harrison and then right into President up to the legislature.

Roads were expected to be opened again at 2pm.

The Star
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What a blatant lie. Those roads are part of e-tolls phase 2 and 3 and will be tolled if e-tolls are allowed to continue.

See the future plans for e-tolls here: https://twitter.com/JPSAorg/status/437843114326110209/photo/1/large
 
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So they're gonna use normal tax allocations to fund the upgrade of the roads, and then add toll gantries to collect money under the auspices of having to pay off the roads... Lekker double tax!
 
http://www.fin24.com/Economy/Sanral-resolves-Cape-tractor-e-toll-bill-20140225

Cape Town - The case of the "e-tolling" Western Cape tractor has been resolved, according to the SA National Roads Agency (Sanral).

A farmer and his wife from Citrusdal in the Western Cape were very surprised when they received a Gauteng e-tolls invoice of R43.50 for their tractor.

Inva van Wyk told Fin24 the last time she and her husband Johnnie had been in Gauteng was 40 years ago.

Yet they got a Gauteng e-tolls invoice for CAR 10944, the registration number of their tractor, which was safely lockup up in the shed.

The photo attached to the invoice showed a white panel van with the same registration number passing through an e-toll gantry in Gauteng on December 19 at 23:00.

Sanral has now told Fin24 that the matter has been resolved.

An investigation by Sanral determined that the car passing through the gantry had the registration number CAR 10844 and not CAR 10944 (the tractor's).

"The Invoice has been written off as it was an error from our side," Sanral told Fin24 on Tuesday.
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Scary that the cameras couldn't distinguish between an 8 and a 9.
 
Wyzak said:
Scary that the cameras couldn't distinguish between an 8 and a 9.
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In come cases it's obvious that they've been corrected by a human - not so much in this case but others where the digits are correct but in the wrong order - cannot be an OCR error.
 
garp said:
In come cases it's obvious that they've been corrected by a human - not so much in this case but others where the digits are correct but in the wrong order - cannot be an OCR error.
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So much for automation.
 
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/government/97565-e-tolls-cost-shoprite-r4-million.html

South African retailer Shoprite says that the direct e-toll cost for its own fleet is R4 million, which will raise the price of food for the Gauteng consumer.

Earlier this month, listed transport logistics and mobility group, Super Group also highlighted the impact of e-tolls on its business.

Economists have warned against the negative effect that e-tolls on consumers, while debt management firm, Debt Rescue, last month reported a sharp increase in the number of deeply indebted consumers seeking help in the form of debt review, following the introduction of toll fees.

Super Group CEO, Peter Mumford warned against Sanral’s e-toll system cost implications, when he announced the group’s financial results on 10 February.

He told Moneyweb: “It’s fairly significant. Like most of our competitors we can pass on statutory costs on a lot of contracts. Where we can’t it is significant, the costs themselves are significant and so is the administrative burden involved in managing the whole e-toll accounting.”

In results for the 6 months ended December 2013, Shoprite said that turnover increased 9.7% to R51 billion.

Trading profit was up 7.5% to R2.7 billion, while headline earnings per share rose 7.9% to 341.0 cents.

The group declared a dividend per share of 132 cents (2012: 123 cents), showing an increase of 7.3%.

Shoprite pointed to a difficult trading environment. “Middle- and lower-income consumers, many of them overburdened with debt, are struggling to make ends meet due to spiraling increases in their living expenses and transport costs.

“The consequent lack of disposable income has a severe impact on the retail environment in which competition for the consumer’s rand has greatly intensified in the six months under review,” it said.

The group’s ticketing business, Computicket is undertaking an extensive systems upgrade “to create a state-of-the-art booking engine, which will greatly increase its agility in handling extreme peaks in ticket demand”.

Last week, Sanral noted that in excess of 1.2 million e-tags had been registered for e-tolls, with between 30,000 and 45,000 people registering on Sanral’s system each week.
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These guys are really getting on my nerves. Phoned her twice yesterday, and today they phoned on the landline.
The number is registered on my name and not listed anywhere.
And she is starting to panic, as the car is registered in her name.
 
stay strong - if we all ignore them, what can they do to us all?
 
Compton_effect said:
These guys are really getting on my nerves. Phoned her twice yesterday, and today they phoned on the landline.
The number is registered on my name and not listed anywhere.
And she is starting to panic, as the car is registered in her name.
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Just tell her to reply with "eish, un-gars, no understando SCAMRAL crapo" and put the phone on mute or the handset down without cutting the call.
 
Hi guys and girls ?

So, my dad got a e-toll bill for his trailer, which has not been on the road in about 2 years, and he doesn't travel on the highway anymore. Yesterday he received another bill, but this time round there was photo's attached..... A little Mazda or something or other. What is the best way to tell Scamral that his number plate was cloned ?? E-mail or go to a service desk ?

CHeers

T
 
tcofran said:
Hi guys and girls ?

So, my dad got a e-toll bill for his trailer, which has not been on the road in about 2 years, and he doesn't travel on the highway anymore. Yesterday he received another bill, but this time round there was photo's attached..... A little Mazda or something or other. What is the best way to tell Scamral that his number plate was cloned ?? E-mail or go to a service desk ?

CHeers

T
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Why should their problems waste your time? Send them an email and forget about it.
 
Contrary to what SCAMRAL thinks, the burden is on them to prove u went under the gantry, as per previous post, send them a FU in an email and forget about it.
 
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