Tolling roads for which public pay taxes wrong in principle, says Outa
Comment follows Constitutional Court ruling that put brakes on Sanral’s plans to toll N1 and N2 in Western Cape
The tolling of urban road infrastructure is fundamentally wrong, as these are roads the public use for daily commuting and for which they pay taxes, the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) said on Monday. The organisation was commenting following last week’s Constitutional Court ruling that put the brakes on the South African National Roads Agency’s (Sanral’s) plans to toll the N1 and N2 in the Western Cape. The agency had approached the country’s highest court after the Supreme Court late in 2016 dismissed its appeal against a ruling by the High Court in Cape Town that set aside the tolling plans. "We have always been convinced that Sanral’s conduct on the Winelands tolling decision, as it was in the Gauteng e-toll matter, was unlawful, irrational and excessively expensive," said Outa chairman Wayne Duvenage. He said Outa maintained it was high time the government scrapped the "failed" Gauteng e-toll scheme, which now has extremely low compliance levels of around 20%. "Their curr...
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