Only 12.19% of all fines issued under the Department of Transport\u2019s Gauteng-pilot of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Offences (Aarto) Act have been collected since 2008.<\/p>\n
This is according to a DA parliamentary question reply, DA Shadow Minister of Transport Ian Ollis wrote in a statement today (6 August 2013).<\/p>\n
Ollis said that the Aarto Act governs how municipal authorities adjudicate and collect traffic fines, and will also govern the manner in which the e-toll concessionaire collects unpaid tolls from motorists.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf only 12.19% of fines issued since 2008 have been collected, there is simply no way that the collection of unpaid e-toll payments will be any different,\u201d Ollis said. \u201cEnforcing compliance will be impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Ollis, the impossibility of enforcing compliance with e-tolling is, in itself, enough reason to stop the implementation of e-tolls in Gauteng.<\/p>\n
Ollis listed the following reasons E-toll should be scrapped:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen will Sanral and the Department of Transport wake up, smell the roses, and scrap their e-tolling plans?\u201d Ollis wrote.<\/p>\n
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