The cities of Johannesburg and Tshwane no longer want to be test cases for the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) system over its enforcement issues and disappointing traffic fine collections. Aarto is only in force in Johannesburg and Tshwane, but is due to be instituted nationally and proposes wide-ranging changes in how the country’s motorists are to be policed. Michael Sun, member of the mayoral committee for public safety in Johannesburg, and Derrick Kissoonduth, member of the mayoral committee for safety and security in Tshwane, both made representations to Parliament’s transport portfolio committee on Friday. They pleaded for the metros to be exempted from executing Aarto because of teething problems in its implementation, and until the system was ready for its national implementation. Sun said Johannesburg had expected the pilot project to help the metro run its traffic systems better. The system had proved disastrous and resulted in even worse comp...
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