Toll Roads

[etwylite]

I believe that by law ( The road traffic act) and alternative route must exist to a tolled route. The new King shaka airport has a toll on the on and off ramp and NO alternative route.

Can someone please confirm if I am correct in my assumption.

I know the alternative route previously had to be indicated by sign boards and that this was then done away with.

 

[bleh69]

lol

haven't you heard? due process and law are archaic concepts in a world of shiny shoes, flashy cars, and fat men on power trips. of course an alternative route needs to be available, but then these people have only really used the law to justify their obscurities at the same time abolishing it as they please.

 

[Ou grote]

Yeah, I hate them.
I had to cough up R33 x 5 for the tsikamma toll road recently during a stay at Nature's valley.
That's because the mountain pass is closed.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Yes there is such a law. I'm just not sure how it covers the KS airport though. Might be only valid between two towns.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Its valid even at KSIA.. and there is an alternate route.. but its not "fun" to drive on.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

When older toll routes was built, the toll road contractors had to ensure that there was alternative routes.

Nowadays, with the N4 toll road, N3 toll road etc, the need for an existing alternative route still do exist, but it is no longer the liability of the toll road operator to ensure that alternative routes exists.

But people tend to use alternative routes more than tolled roads, hence the sad state of said alternative routes.

 

[upup]

Who owns this airport?

 

[HavocXphere]

tbh the general region around king shaka is the only place where this alternate route thing is sortof followed. The Alt routes there are marked...rarely the case in the rest of the country.