Motorists should get ready for e-tolling on Gauteng highways by obtaining e-tags, the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“With the introduction of e-tolling on some highways in Gauteng set to start in the near future… motorists [should] get their e-tags and register for payment without delay,” Sanral spokesman Vusi Mona said in a statements.<\/p>\n
“Motorists should not be confused by court actions currently underway,” he said, adding that e-tolling in Gauteng was no longer legally disputed.<\/p>\n
“The legality of open road tolling in Gauteng was settled by the Constitutional Court when it lifted, in September last year, the interim interdict preventing Sanral from implementing e-tolling in Gauteng.”<\/p>\n
The e-tolls have been criticised by a number of organisations, including the Congress of SA Trade Unions.<\/p>\n
The civil society group, Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa), has fought a lengthy court battle to prevent the implementation of e-tolling.<\/p>\n
The High Court in Pretoria granted Outa leave to appeal its dismissal of the civil group’s application to have e-tolling scrapped, and this will be heard by the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein in September.<\/p>\n
Mona said the e-tag, would be fitted to a windscreen, and would automatically deduct the toll fee when the vehicle passed beneath an overhead toll gantry.<\/p>\n
“Open road tolling means that there will be no plazas on the road which slow down traffic or result in long queues.”<\/p>\n
Mona said there were already more than 40,000 e-toll account holders using e-tags at N1\/N4 Bakwena toll plazas.<\/p>\n
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