So far [-]I[/-] we have [-]33[/-] 48 gripes with the system. Add your own issues and let's see if we can hit 50...
34 - It opens up another avenue for corruption at the payment centres
35. The GFIP was intended for 585km of improvements, yet only 185km have been completed. All other construction/development has been shelved, yet the PIC has already lent Sanral R17bn, and a few other investors make up the difference. This means that we as taxpayers will be doing one of two things:
a. we pay the interest on these loans that will never be used
b. the cost of these improvement just shot up from R35m/km to R108m/km. Yes, million...
36. Taxis, who will use the roads for business reasons, don't have to pay. Private citizens who will not make any profit out of using the toll roads, have to pay.
37. The Terms and Conditions for the use of the E-tag devices violate the Consumer Protection Act.
38. Invoices will be sent without any pictorial evidence of your vehicle using the toll road.
39. The Tolling fees are supposed to be calculated per kilometer, but a person entering the highway right before a gantry and exiting immediately after will be charged the full price for the length which that Gantry covers.
40. The E-tag system is not an effective funds gathering mechanism for what is effectively a third world country. 50% of road users in Gauteng probably don't even have a bank account, credit card or the means to continually top up a pre-paid e-tag device. They are therefore unfairly forced to pay the higher toll rate, but collection will be a problem as most of them don't even have a proper residential address specified in their Vehicle Register information. The people who do therefore have the correct information will end up subsidising or paying for enforcement against those who don't.
41. The E-tolling system violates the Constitution which guarantees the right of free movement on public roads in South Africa. (All other public toll roads (previously erected in SA) provide a clearly designated and marked Alternative Route (which was in existence before the Toll Road was built). In those cases you are not forced to use the Toll Road, but in the case of Gauteng, no alternative routes are provided, and what was once a public road has now been restricted, thereby violating the constitution.)
42. Not all toll-gantries have been checked for compliance with the National Environmental Management Act. Those that have been checked have been proven not to comply. Therefore most, if not all toll-gantries could fall under the same problems.
43. The addresses on the ENATIS system are outdated and the vast majority of them are invalid. They won't be able to send out the fines to the correct owners, so a hand-full of people will have to pay for the majority. Just like income tax.
44. The onus is on you to prove that your vehicle did not go through the gantry. How could you possibly prove that? The onus should be on them to confirm that it really was your vehicle and not a cloned license plate.
45. The E-tolling systems will severely impact Education as well. Students (or their parents) who commute to WITS, UJ, University of Pretoria and other schools and Technikons will be hit hard by Toll fees! A student without a bank account (poorer students) and those who do not want an e-tag will have to fork out up to R1,300.00 per month just for the luxury of using the road to get to varisty.
46. Consumers are concerned that this is just the first of many steps that the government are taking to monetise and seize control of our public and private assets.
47. No option of rolling fee - time of day ( after business hours) or day of week (Public holidays etc) which would not only be fair, but help to spread the flow of peak traffic better.
48. No support for the lending of a car to someone else
49. By sending you a bill for using the road, SANRAL would be considered to be an Incidental Credit Provider according to the National Credit Act and as such should be subject to all of the provisions of the act that applies to Incidental Credit Providers, such as:
- being prevented from handing you over for legal action prior to 90 days
- charging penalty fees and interest in excess of the original amount owed
34 - It opens up another avenue for corruption at the payment centres
35. The GFIP was intended for 585km of improvements, yet only 185km have been completed. All other construction/development has been shelved, yet the PIC has already lent Sanral R17bn, and a few other investors make up the difference. This means that we as taxpayers will be doing one of two things:
a. we pay the interest on these loans that will never be used
b. the cost of these improvement just shot up from R35m/km to R108m/km. Yes, million...
36. Taxis, who will use the roads for business reasons, don't have to pay. Private citizens who will not make any profit out of using the toll roads, have to pay.
37. The Terms and Conditions for the use of the E-tag devices violate the Consumer Protection Act.
38. Invoices will be sent without any pictorial evidence of your vehicle using the toll road.
39. The Tolling fees are supposed to be calculated per kilometer, but a person entering the highway right before a gantry and exiting immediately after will be charged the full price for the length which that Gantry covers.
40. The E-tag system is not an effective funds gathering mechanism for what is effectively a third world country. 50% of road users in Gauteng probably don't even have a bank account, credit card or the means to continually top up a pre-paid e-tag device. They are therefore unfairly forced to pay the higher toll rate, but collection will be a problem as most of them don't even have a proper residential address specified in their Vehicle Register information. The people who do therefore have the correct information will end up subsidising or paying for enforcement against those who don't.
41. The E-tolling system violates the Constitution which guarantees the right of free movement on public roads in South Africa. (All other public toll roads (previously erected in SA) provide a clearly designated and marked Alternative Route (which was in existence before the Toll Road was built). In those cases you are not forced to use the Toll Road, but in the case of Gauteng, no alternative routes are provided, and what was once a public road has now been restricted, thereby violating the constitution.)
42. Not all toll-gantries have been checked for compliance with the National Environmental Management Act. Those that have been checked have been proven not to comply. Therefore most, if not all toll-gantries could fall under the same problems.
43. The addresses on the ENATIS system are outdated and the vast majority of them are invalid. They won't be able to send out the fines to the correct owners, so a hand-full of people will have to pay for the majority. Just like income tax.
44. The onus is on you to prove that your vehicle did not go through the gantry. How could you possibly prove that? The onus should be on them to confirm that it really was your vehicle and not a cloned license plate.
45. The E-tolling systems will severely impact Education as well. Students (or their parents) who commute to WITS, UJ, University of Pretoria and other schools and Technikons will be hit hard by Toll fees! A student without a bank account (poorer students) and those who do not want an e-tag will have to fork out up to R1,300.00 per month just for the luxury of using the road to get to varisty.
46. Consumers are concerned that this is just the first of many steps that the government are taking to monetise and seize control of our public and private assets.
47. No option of rolling fee - time of day ( after business hours) or day of week (Public holidays etc) which would not only be fair, but help to spread the flow of peak traffic better.
48. No support for the lending of a car to someone else
49. By sending you a bill for using the road, SANRAL would be considered to be an Incidental Credit Provider according to the National Credit Act and as such should be subject to all of the provisions of the act that applies to Incidental Credit Providers, such as:
- being prevented from handing you over for legal action prior to 90 days
- charging penalty fees and interest in excess of the original amount owed
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