{"id":94949,"date":"2015-08-03T17:56:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=94949"},"modified":"2015-08-03T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T15:58:13","slug":"more-people-are-paying-for-e-tolls-sanral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/94949\/more-people-are-paying-for-e-tolls-sanral\/","title":{"rendered":"More people are paying e-tolls: Sanral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outa has laughed off claims by Sanral that e-toll payments are increasing, saying that what little money is coming in is missing the agency’s targets in a big way.<\/p>\n

According to a statement by Sanral on Monday (3 August), the roads agency said that more road users were starting to pay e-tolls, reporting R76 million in payments for May, and R78 million in June.<\/p>\n

This was higher than the preceding seven months of collection, Sanral said.<\/p>\n

However, Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) issued a statement of its own, calling the agency’s angle on the numbers “a farce”.<\/p>\n

“When comparing revenue growth and business performance, it is important to equate this to the same period last year, as well as to one\u2019s original targets,” Outa said.<\/p>\n

Year-on-year, the figures were actually 35% down, and were still 70% off Sanral’s original monthly targets of R260 million.<\/p>\n

Monetary data from Sanral in April 2015 shows that e-toll revenue collection has been in steady decline from the high of R120 million recorded in June 2014.<\/p>\n

Read:\u00a0E-toll collection sinks to new lows<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The numbers have been climbing since the start of the year, but put against the group’s initial projections, it shows a massive gap in collection.<\/p>\n

\"E-toll<\/a>

E-toll revenue vs projections (data for April based on average)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe fact that June 2015 revenues are literally the same as May\u2019s after the new dispensation, is an indication that there has been no take-up of Government\u2019s new offers and that clearly, the public are not being fooled by the so-called discounts and continue to defy the unjust scheme,\u201d said Outa chairman, Wayne Duvenage.<\/p>\n

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

E-toll collection sinks to new lows<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you ANC for e-tolls and load shedding: DA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joburg mayor says no to e-tolls<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got you covered on e-tolls: insurance companies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outa has laughed off claims by Sanral that e-toll payments are increasing, saying that what little money is coming in is missing the agency’s targets in a big way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":70475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1804,26,1988,429],"class_list":["post-94949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-e-tolls","tag-headline","tag-outa","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94949","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=94949"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94965,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94949\/revisions\/94965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}