{"id":149147,"date":"2015-12-09T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=149147"},"modified":"2015-12-09T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:02:24","slug":"lets-get-real-about-e-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/149147-lets-get-real-about-e-tolls.html","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s get real about e-tolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African National Roads Agency Limited has published 5 new videos to its YouTube channel that explain\u00a0the benefits of e-tolling.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the videos are entitled \u201cWhat you need to know about E-tolls\u201d, and feature interviews with Minister of Transport Dipuo Peters, Sanral CEO Nazir Alli, and economist Roelof Botha.<\/p>\n<p>In the other two videos, entitled \u201cLet\u2019s get real about E-tags\u201d, the agency interviewed &#8220;ordinary South Africans&#8221; who speak about how e-tolls have benefited them.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Joe and Rebecca Letseleha &#8211; Travel times are reduced<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H9WzxcSKJFs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Max Naude &#8211; It makes sense to pay for the roads<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NIs4Hjcq_kQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">We need another R197 billion to deal with road maintenance backlogs &#8211; Minister of transport Dipuo Peters<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5gTGRqc-0WI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Gauteng e-roads are only 201km of 750,000km of roads that must be maintained &#8211; Sanral CEO Nazir Alli<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q5CEsNEeYSo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">E-tolls reduce pressure on the government to risk higher interest rates on its bonds to raise the money for roads from the capital market &#8211; Roelof Botha, economist<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tpVprvM5rlU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More about e-tolls<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/148593-e-tolls-have-officially-collapsed-outa.html\"><strong>E-tolls have officially collapsed: Outa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/145057-beware-registering-for-e-tolls.html\"><strong>Beware registering for e-tolls<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/145059-you-no-longer-have-to-accept-sanrals-crazy-tcs-to-check-your-e-toll-bill-online.html\"><strong>You no longer have to accept Sanral\u2019s crazy T&amp;Cs to check your e-toll bill online<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/144783-this-is-what-the-average-e-toll-user-owes-sanral.html\"><strong>This is what the average e-toll user owes Sanral<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/144767-here-is-the-letter-which-proves-e-toll-cameras-are-illegal.html\"><strong>Here is the letter which proves e-toll cameras are illegal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanral has released a series of videos which explain the benefits of registering for e-tolling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":116576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18668],"tags":[3864,35,34469,34473,9265,34471,27756,23072],"class_list":["post-149147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-dipuo-peters","tag-headline","tag-joe-letseleha","tag-max-naude","tag-nazir-alli","tag-rebecca-letseleha","tag-roelof-botha","tag-south-african-national-roads-agency-limited-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149155,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149147\/revisions\/149155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}