eNCA<\/a><\/strong>, Maswanganyi said that the government was “a government that listens”.<\/p>\n“We understand that many people have issues with the tolling policy, so we are reviewing the tolling policy – not only e-tolls, the GFIP, but tolling in general,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We want to come up with a tolling policy that our people will actually accept. We are not closing our ears to what people are saying – we are working with the government of Gauteng and with Sanral, and at the end of the day we believe we will come with a policy on tolling that will be acceptable.”<\/p>\n
This would mark yet another review for the Gauteng e-toll system, after the Gauteng government launched the e-toll review committee in 2015, which saw a 60% discount offered on toll fees, and an extension of the grace period to pay discounted rates.<\/p>\n
However, even with the discounts, Gauteng motorists have not bought into the system, with the latest data from Sanral showing that\u00a0only about 30% of invoices generated\u00a0to motorists who use Gauteng\u2019s toll roads have been paid over a 24-month period.<\/p>\n
Of the more than 1.8 billion invoices that were issued in the past 24 months, more than 1.3 billion (more than 71%) were unpaid.<\/p>\n
According to civil action group Outa’s chairman, Wayne Duvenage,\u00a0Maswanganyi needs to realise that the entire e-toll system has failed, and should move to a more successful funding mechanism like an increase in the fuel levy.<\/p>\n
“The minister needs to make decisions – nobody has been making any decisions. The scheme has failed and is not accomplishing what it set out to do.”<\/p>\n
“If (the government) had introduced the fuel levy in 2007, we would have already paid for the roads,” Duvenage said.<\/p>\n
African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Gwede Mantashe recently stated that that e-tolls had cost the party votes in the municipal elections in 2016.<\/p>\n
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