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Hellhound105 said:
Ouch.

I'm lucky in this regard, but everyday I feel like the Exec in charge of me is doing more than me and thus I feel like I need to up my game.
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The person I feel sorry for is genuinely one of the nicest people in the world, however, not the sharpest tool in the shed and she'll be having a tough time as is already evident.
 
gamer16 said:
The person I feel sorry for is genuinely one of the nicest people in the world, however, not the sharpest tool in the shed and she'll be having a tough time as is already evident.
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But hey, you gotta do you on the end of the day. Nobody is going to look after you and you know whats best for you.
Good luck hey.
 
My point of view : To summarize - Sanral (and the government) can't simply go ahead and start imposing AARTO penalties on people who's not paying etolls, since the legality of etolls are not proven, and that the whole system is without any legal pillars or a good legal framework to stand on. In short - it infringes on your constitutional rights as a SA citizen. (However, this need to be tested in a court of law).

Further Summarization :

Other countries implemented proper cheap, reliable and alternative public transport BEFORE they start tolling roads. Gauteng did not.
Sanral only posted notices in a few newspapers once only, so the public was NOT informed of what was going to happen. They also never did run a proper information campaign to inform the public of what was coming.
There are a couple of precedents in other countries where it was discovered that the etoll system (those countries wanted to implement) was not living up to expectations OR the local population was totally against it, and never got implemented.
Sanral also did not send out any teams to other countries to find out what issues and solutions and so on the other countries had with their etoll and other tolling roads.
There are also the legal question of the inflated costs of the GFIP. Because Sanral did not tried to rake back the costs from the companies/contractors responsible, and foist said costs upon the motorist, a lot of legal issues is raised.
It is also pointed out that, should they have implemented a fuel levy to claw back the costs, they would already have covered the expenses incurred with the etoll system.
The poor accuracy of the etoll system was highlighted with the Duduzane Zuma crash.
There are also a lot of other points raised in that pdf.

One point that is interested to note is this : A clogged freeway, once upgraded, will take about 2-3 years to get back to a clogged state (and this we can already see on the existing etoll roads). The only way to avoid that is to implement cheap, alternative, safe and reliable public transport.
 
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