New Video: Toll me maybe

ATTEMPTS by the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) to engage with Gauteng residents on gazetted proposals regarding the province’s imminent freeway e-tolling system got off to a shaky start on Tuesday evening at the Premier Hotel OR Tambo in Kempton Park.

The consultation period continues until November 26, after which Transport Minister Ben Martins will consider input from the public to determine final e-toll tariffs and which vehicles should be exempt from paying.

GAUTENG’s suspended electronic tolling system is readying to launch, with 1,300 people working across a range of operations including in a violations processing centre, an accounts management facility and a road-side system.

About 10,000 Gauteng road users have been "using e-toll accounts successfully" to pay tolls at the Bakwena facilities on the N1 and N4 highways, Sanral project manager Alex van Niekerk said at a briefing on Wednesday.