Sanral adjusts e-toll and plaza tariffs
The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) has adjusted e-toll tariffs, which will see motorists paying more to drive on Gauteng freeways.
Transport Minister Dipuo Peters has approved the toll tariff hikes for the 2017/18 financial year, which took effect on 3 March 2017.
Sanral's Vusi Mona says the tariffs are in line with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) over the past 12 months and comes down to a 6.04 percent increase.
Mona says there are adjustments on the N3 toll road between Johannesburg and Durban, the N4 highway between the Mozambican border and the Botswana border, as well as on the toll road sections of the N1, N2, N17 and R30.
"The tariffs related to the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) has also been adjusted. There is no adjustment of the Swartruggens toll plaza tariffs," says Mona.
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Meanwhile, the Automobile Association (AA)'s Layton Beard says this comes as a blow to motorists.
"It comes on the back of additional fuel levies and Road Accident Fund (RAF) levies that will be enforced from 1 April 2017," says Beard.
OUTA's Wayne Duvenhage maintains that e-tolls should be scrapped.
"E-tolls shouldn't be here. If nobody is paying...to increase the rate by 6 percent and still get nobody paying is quite strange. Zero times six percent still equals zero. Less than 20 percent compliance. We are wondering why Sanral is still increasing tolls," says Duvenhage.