{"id":48116,"date":"2012-04-18T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=48116"},"modified":"2012-04-18T15:31:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:31:41","slug":"e-toll-registrations-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/48116-e-toll-registrations-increase.html","title":{"rendered":"E-toll registrations increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a significant increase of e-tag registrations in Gauteng, the <a title=\"SA National Roads Agency Ltd (Sanral)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/372008-SANRAL\">SA National Roads Agency Ltd<\/a> said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the registrations had taken place at mall outlets, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The agency was unable to provide a figure but the Beeld reported that more than 350,000 e-tags had been registered for e-tolling.<\/p>\n<p>Salahdin Yacoubi, chief executive of electronic toll collections, told the publication that between 5,000 and 10,000 people had registered daily in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>E-tolling is set to go live on April 30.<\/p>\n<p>Sanral gazetted new tariffs on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Alternate users (people without e-tags) will be charged R1.75\/km, compared to the standard tariff of 30c\/km for registered users.<\/p>\n<p>It said the higher fee was because of the need to recover costs, including invoicing and debt collection.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, several organisations and political parties raised concerns about the tariffs and asked Sanral to postpone the launch.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/399517-Cosatu\">Congress of SA Trade Unions<\/a> said it was planning a second strike against the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a significant increase of e-tag registrations in Gauteng, the SA National Roads Agency Ltd said on Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":47756,"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":[17],"tags":[36,5756,6525,10796,2072],"class_list":["post-48116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-cosatu","tag-e-toll","tag-salahdin-yacoubi","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48116"}],"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=48116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48118,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48116\/revisions\/48118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}