Urgent e-Toll decision required

16 September 2020

News that SANRAL has issued a tender for the management of the controversial e-toll system in July, makes a decision on the future of e-tolls by cabinet an urgent one.

The tender was adertised (and closes today) because cabinet has not yet informed SANRAL about which way it is going with e-tolls.

The people of Gauteng have spoken and signalled to government in no uncertain terms that e-tolls must go.

To waste time and energy in considering a tender that may never be awarded is counter productive. Even worse, if the tender is awarded and e-tolls is scrapped, it will leave a contractual burden for SANRAL.

Government needs to make its decision on e-tolls known as a matter of urgency before the tender proceeds any further.

Issued by Fred Nel, DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Roads and Transport, 16 September 2020