{"id":60587,"date":"2014-06-17T08:47:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T06:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=60587"},"modified":"2014-06-17T08:47:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T06:47:30","slug":"entire-e-toll-scheme-must-be-scrapped-outa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/60587\/entire-e-toll-scheme-must-be-scrapped-outa\/","title":{"rendered":"Entire e-toll scheme must be scrapped: Outa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outa chairperson Wayne Duvenage has welcomed the recent comments by Gauteng transport MEC Ismail Vadi that the department is relooking e-tolls as a funding model for roads<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Duvenage added that clarity is needed on Vadi\u2019s statements, which appears to have cast a shadow of confusion on the matter more than anything else.<\/p>\n

Outa supports Vadi\u2019s views that other funding models – like a regional fuel levy, a provincial tax or shadow tolling – are more efficient ways to pay for road upgrades.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe e-toll scheme comes at a huge administration cost \u2013 over R1.3 billion per year \u2013 and will never achieve high compliance, as Sanral is now learning some six months after launching the scheme,\u201d said Duvenage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe obvious question is, does Sanral concur with the messages from MEC Vadi? If so, does this mean there is a \u2018half-pregnant\u2019 approach to the ill-conceived e-toll plan,\u201d asked Duvenage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf indeed the scheme is questionable and regarded as ineffective, then it goes without saying that the entire scheme should be set aside until a more efficient and equitable solution is found.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day the fiasco continues is a burden to society. We trust that Cosatu\u2019s request this week for President Zuma to call off the e-toll scheme\u2019s \u2018privatization of our public highways\u2019 in his State of the Nation Address, will be heeded accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n

E-tag numbers questions<\/h3>\n

Outa said that it has updated its e-tag count on vehicles last week and maintains less than 40% of vehicles are tagged.<\/p>\n

This suggests that Sanral\u2019s recent discount carrot has not produced the uptake they had hoped for, sending an even louder message that the public at large were not going to be duped or enticed into the irrational scheme.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf one extrapolates the R550 million outstanding e-toll debt amounted by 28 February 2014, we estimate this figure to have now climbed to approximately R1 billion,\u201d said Outa.<\/p>\n

More on Sanral and e-tolls<\/h3>\n

Sanral called, it wants your e-toll money<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Motorists report e-toll roadblocks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Sanral denies e-tag spot checks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Sanral: getting exact e-tag figures is hard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outa says that the entire e-toll scheme should be set aside, adding that the fiasco continues to be a burden to society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1804,26,1988,429,1989],"class_list":["post-60587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-e-tolls","tag-headline","tag-outa","tag-sanral","tag-wayne-duvenage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60587","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60589,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60587\/revisions\/60589"}],"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=60587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}