How much you will pay for new e-tolls

Justice Project South Africa has detailed how much motorists will pay under the new e-toll dispensation, set to take effect from 2 July 2015.

On 17 June the new tariffs were published in government gazette 38884 under notice numbers 524 and 525, said the JPSA.

This follows an announcement by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on 20 May about the new “dispensation for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project”.

New tariffs

The new tariffs are as follows

• The tariff of approximately 30c per kilometre is to continue to apply to registered e-tag users, and will apply to registered VLN users who were previously expected to pay approximately 58c per kilometre.
• Both types of registered users still have to sign Sanral’s terms and conditions which have been publicly stated as being “90% compliant with the Consumer Protection Act”.
• If these registered users don’t have a prepaid account, or don’t have a payment method acceptable to Sanral, they will be charged the “alternate user tariff” – approximately 90c per kilometre.
• Registered users will have a 31-day “grace period” from time of passing under a gantry in which to pay the “alternate user tariff”.
• “Unregistered alternate users” will have a 7-day grace period to pay and are not entitled to the discount
• If unregistered alternate users pay within the 7-day grace period, they will be charged the “standard tariff” – approximately 30c per kilometre.
• If they pay before an invoice is issued by Sanral or within 30 days of the date of the invoice they will receive a 60% discount on the alternate user tariff – approximately 54c per kilometre.
• Two gantries, “Inkovu (N4-1)” and “Penguin (N4-1)” have been deleted from the list of gantries, reducing the total list from 49 to 47 gantries.

Discounts on outstanding e-tolls

“A discount of 60% will be applicable on previously incurred e-tolls and for a specific period at some time in the future. However, this will not be applicable until such time as the Director General publishes a notice giving effect to it,” said JPSA.

“There is no mention in either notice of the 30 free gantry passes for out-of-towners referenced by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa,” it added.

“Sadly, Justice Project South Africa is not in the least bit surprised by the fact that the PR exercise announcing the so-called new e-tolls dispensation and what has been published in the government gazette notices… don’t actually match one another.”

“Road users have once again been misled with respect to the tariff they will be expected to pay.”

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