Tito Mboweni refuses to scrap e-tolls: 'You pay for bread, and you'll pay for roads'

[krycor]

I read it as pre-christmas treats.

it's opportunistic really.. I like that they check for the sake of catching thieves etc but at the same time i think it's old school and outdated and due for a massive change. i.e. you should have a QR code on there and basic details which do not change. Similarly our Id & drivers license should be electronic.. The successful implementation of the drivers licence card has shown the viability of doing so ironically.. so whether or not its printed on a special page is immaterial.


I've never gone through one of those road worthy check roadblocks.. usually just disk checks +/- speed fine checks but since i don't speed and only get caught out when boards missing or waze has wrong speed i've not had issues.

 

[The_Librarian]

I read it as pre-christmas treats.

Yay! KFC bukkits!

 

[Eniigma]

Yeah, I bought a loaf in 1998. All subsequent loaves should be free ... nope logic doesn’t work. Or maybe you think because you buy a brown loaf, then you deserve to get a white loaf for free, because you’re already paying for bread right?

Tito that you?

 

[Enzo Matrix]

My dog's name is also Tito.

One of these beings is quite intelligent, one is not

 

[Foxhound5366]

My dog's name is also Tito.

One of these beings is quite intelligent, one is not

Question being, though, how would a dumbass like you know what intelligence looks like?

 

[ForceFate]

In all seriousness, everyone has a right to make a choice on this matter. The gentleman above chose convenience over everything else. The other day while on a queue at a tollgate, I watched enviously as other cars were streaming past in the "tag lane".

 

[Spliffcat]

Hands out vaseline to everyone in SA.
Bend over the ANC has you all by the nuts.

 

[BBSA]

In all seriousness, everyone has a right to make a choice on this matter. The gentleman above chose convenience over everything else. The other day while on a queue at a tollgate, I watched enviously as other cars were streaming past in the "tag lane".

Sometimes one must make sacrifices for the greater good.

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

In all seriousness, everyone has a right to make a choice on this matter. The gentleman above chose convenience over everything else. The other day while on a queue at a tollgate, I watched enviously as other cars were streaming past in the "tag lane".

Some one needs to alert the union whose members operate all the toll booths on the freeways, e-Tolls are going to lead to job losses. Hopefully they and their members organize a protest or two.

 

[surface]

In all seriousness, everyone has a right to make a choice on this matter. The gentleman above chose convenience over everything else. The other day while on a queue at a tollgate, I watched enviously as other cars were streaming past in the "tag lane".

You kidding?

 

[ForceFate]

You kidding?

Diamond Hill toll plaza, both ways. The extreme left lane is an "eTag lane".

 

[surface]

Diamond Hill toll plaza, both ways. The extreme left lane is an "eTag lane".

I shall burn petrol and head there some day. Not often I get to strut like business class peeps. All that myBB abuse was worth it.

 

[Temujin]

We already pay you greedy farks, taxes and levies... ain't gonna pay again... fark you

 

[daveza]

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Seems like it’s coming to national routes near everyone.

They tried that in Cape Town and we showed them the finger in court.

Taxis and other forms of public transport are excluded from e-tolls in a pact struck by former president Jacob Zuma

Taxis may transport the public but they are private transport.. Do the exemptions apply to airport shuttles, sedan taxis, long distance buses ? ?

 

[Sinbad]

They tried that in Cape Town and we showed them the finger in court.



Taxis may transport the public but they are private transport.. Do the exemptions apply to airport shuttles, sedan taxis, long distance buses ? ?

Only if their operators threaten to burn shiit down

 

[The_Librarian]

I'm expecting the govt to implement other taxes in order to make up for the shortfall.

Time to find a desert and start living like a hermit then.

 

[Zoomzoom]

Time to find a desert abandoned town and start living like a hermit off-grid hippy commune then.

FTFY (and PS there are plenty of abandoned towns to choose from).

 

[Tokolotshe]

FTFY (and PS there are plenty of abandoned towns to choose from).

Kibbutz? I will go with that.

 

[The_Librarian]

Kibbutz? I will go with that.

Good idea.

You'll also need people to patrol the town/area and escort any unwanted intruders out, because there will be unwanted persons coming in to take things that don't belong to them.

 

[Eniigma]

In all seriousness, everyone has a right to make a choice on this matter. The gentleman above chose convenience over everything else. The other day while on a queue at a tollgate, I watched enviously as other cars were streaming past in the "tag lane".

I go through tolls about twice in summer, not so often in winter, but I've thought it would be nice to have one of those for the etag lanes at Marrianne Hill and on the way to Ballito. If I ever did, I'd remove it for the bi-annual JHB trips, just after the last toll on the way there.