Putting Gauteng tolls into operation should not be affected by the DA’s opposition, transport MEC Ismail Vadi said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“I’m not concerned,” he said in Johannesburg responding to reports of the Democratic Alliance taking the matter to court.<\/p>\n
He said Cabinet had given enough time for public consultation and felt Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan<\/a> should be commended for the R5.8 billion contribution to toll costs via the fiscus to the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral)<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I think we have met the public halfway. I think opposition parties are just now being foolish,” Vadi said.<\/p>\n Last week, government spokesman Jimmy Manyi said Gauteng toll fees were set to become a fact of life and the law and the government would tolerate no disobedience.<\/p>\n He advised freeway-users in the province to go out and buy their e-tags, the use of which allowed drivers a discount on the fees charged.<\/p>\n “This is not just a bad dream; it’s a reality, it’s going to happen. No one should have any illusion whatsoever that this thing is going to go away. It’s a fact of life and it’s going to happen,” Manyi said.<\/p>\n With effect from April 30, motorcycles with e-tags would pay 20 cents a kilometre and those without, 38 cents.<\/p>\n Light motor vehicles would pay 30 cents and 58 cents respectively, and non-articulated trucks 75 cents and R1.45.<\/p>\n Articulated trucks with e-tags would pay R1.51 a kilometre and those without R2.90.<\/p>\n Under the new fee system, the cost for motorcycles and light vehicles would be capped at R550 a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Putting Gauteng tolls into operation should not be affected by the DA’s opposition, transport MEC Ismail Vadi said on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":43579,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,8029,6675,9303,4198,2072],"class_list":["post-44557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-e-tolling","tag-ismail-vadi","tag-jimmy-manyi","tag-pravin-gordhan","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44557"}],"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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44621,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44557\/revisions\/44621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}