Lessons learnt from tolls: ANC

Provincial ANC chairman Paul Mashatile acknowledged that the public believed they were not properly consulted prior to the green light being given to the system.

 

"We should accept we needed a longer consultation process," he told the Gauteng E-toll Advisory Panel at the provincial legislature.

 

Alternative methods to e-tolling should have been explored prior to the system being implemented.

 

He told the panel the current system was a "complete departure" from what government had agreed to with the SA National Roads Agency Limited when the concept of e-tolls was raised in 1997.

 

Gauteng premier David Makhura established the panel on July 17 to assess the social and economic impact of e-tolls.

 

The review panel is intended to examine the economic and social impact of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project and the electronic tolling system set up to fund it.

 

The panel is expected to present its findings to Makhura at the end of November.

 

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