{"id":27278,"date":"2012-11-26T08:57:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T06:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=27278"},"modified":"2012-11-26T08:59:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T06:59:18","slug":"e-toll-case-heads-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/27278\/e-toll-case-heads-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"E-toll case heads to court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arguments over the implementation of e-tolling are expected to be heard in the High Court in Pretoria on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) chairman Wayne Duvenhage said they will be arguing why e-tolling should not be implemented and the SA National Roads Agency on the other side would be pushing for the system&#8217;s implementation.<\/p>\n<p>E-tolling was scheduled to start on 30 April this year but a court interdict by the High Court delayed the process just two days before it was scheduled to begin.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled that a full review needed to be carried out before electronic tolling of Gauteng&#8217;s highways could be put into effect.<\/p>\n<p>When delivering judgement regarding the interdict at the time, Judge Bill Prinsloo said people were held captive by toll roads.<\/p>\n<p>Under the project, motorists would pay over 35 cents per km to travel on some of Gauteng&#8217;s major roads.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"No e-tolls for Christmas\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/27155\/no-e-tolls-for-christmas\/\"><strong>No e-tolls for Christmas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"More e-toll talks needed\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/27019\/more-e-toll-talks-needed-cosatu\/\"><strong>More e-toll talks needed: Cosatu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sanral: 500,000 e-tags sold\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/26673\/sanral-500000-e-tags-sold\/\"><strong>Sanral: 500,000 e-tags sold<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/25158\/e-toll-rate-revealed\/\"><strong>E-toll rate revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/24229\/e-toll-details-must-be-made-public-outa\/\"><strong>E-toll details must be made public: OUTA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguments over the implementation of e-tolling are expected to be heard in the High Court in Pretoria on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,427,1988,429],"class_list":["post-27278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-e-toll","tag-outa","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27281,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27278\/revisions\/27281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}