E-tolling can be stopped, according to experts

Do you think e-tolling should be stopped?

  • Yes

    Votes: 168 96.0%

  • No

    Votes: 7 4.0%
  • Total voters
    175
South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) Chief Executive Officer Nazir Alli said so far more than 320,000 Gauteng motorists have registered for e-tolling.
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Who are these idiots, 320000 of them nogal? :twisted:
 
Mbuzi said:
Who are these idiots, 320000 of them nogal? :twisted:
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200k of them Bakwena holders, and probably a good portion from the government themselves.
The rest, people who believe all the FUD lies being spread around by SANRAL and that disgusting Manyi character
 
Mbuzi said:
Who are these idiots, 320000 of them nogal? :twisted:
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It's hard to audit those figures, since someone at SANRAL has pulled them directly out of their ass.

I'm glad this organisation, OUTA (lolz) is finally doing something about it, my question is just, why was it not done sooner, before they started building the gantries? Everyone just ignored the ads then..
 
TJ99 said:
It's hard to audit those figures, since someone at SANRAL has pulled them directly out of their ass.

I'm glad this organisation, OUTA (lolz) is finally doing something about it, my question is just, why was it not done sooner, before they started building the gantries? Everyone just ignored the ads then..
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1) in the hope that sanity would prevail?
2) we didn't know how bad the quality of work would be, or how expensive the solution would be
3) we really thought we'd get free-flowing freeways...
4) We didn't expect the inequitable tolling conditions.
 
“The Gauteng economy cannot afford any impediment to the traffic flow, since such an impediment will stifle economic growth that leads to job creation,” Zuma told The New Age and SABC business briefing in Port Elizabeth.

Anyone notice the traffic really moving that much faster?
 
Is that d00s really trying to link e-toll to job creation? Oh my but we are getting desperate aren't we...
 
rakabos3 said:
Is that d00s really trying to link e-toll to job creation? Oh my but we are getting desperate aren't we...
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Job reduction, as small businesses close down, and people fire their household help because they can't afford them any more.
 
Sinbad said:
1) in the hope that sanity would prevail?
2) we didn't know how bad the quality of work would be, or how expensive the solution would be
3) we really thought we'd get free-flowing freeways...
4) We didn't expect the inequitable tolling conditions.
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1) When has that ever happened? This is the ANC we're talking about and there is major $$$ involved
2) Again, ANC, $$$. They can't even get small tenders right.
3) No-one was really that gullible, were they?
4) This is the closest to sanity they ever came, they knew taxi drivers own the country and would never accept this crap.
 
Mbuzi said:
Who are these idiots, 320000 of them nogal? :twisted:
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It actually annoys me when they throw that figure around like its significant. There are an estimated 3-4m road users in Gauteng, of which basically 10% are now registered, and most of them are people who have either already had e-tags (Bakwena) or government fleets that have recently been registered. They don't put it into perspective to scare people into thinking that everybody is registering. Meanwhile the vast majority of people are ignoring their calls to register. Wait for the court cases, it's going to be a cracker.

Devill said:
“The Gauteng economy cannot afford any impediment to the traffic flow, since such an impediment will stifle economic growth that leads to job creation,” Zuma told The New Age and SABC business briefing in Port Elizabeth.

Anyone notice the traffic really moving that much faster?
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Not me! I was stuck in traffic again for an hour this morning. Traffic is just as bad as it was.
 
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rakabos3 said:
Is that d00s really trying to link e-toll to job creation? Oh my but we are getting desperate aren't we...
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Plenty of jobs for the new fake traffic cops, gantry repairmen, administrators, assistant-chief operating officer in charge, etc.

Not to mention the factory workers in Stuttgart and Bavaria producing all the new S-classes and X5's.
 
GreGorGy said:
I wonder if rental agencies (Hertz, Avis, etc) have registered e-tags. That would certainly account for many of the numbers.
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I doubt if Avis has:

Wayne Duvenage, Chief Executive of Avis Rent a Car, agrees with Pauwen, saying that a well planned and structured legal challenge will stop e-tolling. “This is already at an advanced stage of development, please watch the OUTA web site for developments in this regard,” said Duvenage.
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The number of jobs that will be lost as a result of this corrupt and dumb system far outweighs the number of jobs created.
 
bekdik said:
Government, Regional Government, Council, Police, Army, Fire-brigades, Ambulances ...


But not taxis.
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It's actually insane.
Government/public service stuff SHOULD be exempted.
Taxis SHOULDN'T.

It's just ANOTHER tax on the middle class.
 
“With the support of a number of associations and the public (the more the better, hence our request to register), and subject to a green light from the legal team, we would be launching an application in the courts in the not too distant future.”

Is this right? and register for what?
 
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