Sanral says it’s a “boom down situation where you go, you stop, you pay and you go”. Nice quote, we think, from project engineer Tiago Massingue as he blabbered along with the South African Press Association (Sapa). He also said the e-tolling system, as introduced in the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP), was only valid when roads carried a massive number of vehicles. An example was the Ben Schoeman Interchange in Gauteng, which carried 220,000 vehicles a day.
So basically he is trying to say not enough people drive around in the Western Cape to warrant the controversial Gauteng system. But Stormers supporters will not be exempt from this system for ever. “In 30 years from now, if that situation did arise that we jump exponentially to the high volume recorded about the GFIP, then we’ll introduce it [e-tolling].”
Kak en betaal. dis die wet van Transvaal – and now also available in Cape Town.
