My personal opinion 50cents is ridiculously expensive, they're only gonna drive living costs further up and it gonna cause more unrest....
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FOR YOUR INFO....
If you travel on the freeways, your life is about to be disrupted until
2010 as Road Agency has just awarded over R11,0 bn worth of road
contracts to provide various improvements to all highways and
interchanges in this area.
Six major road contracts are all to be constructed simultaneously. More
contracts are planned.
Most highways will now became 8 lanes, 4 in each direction. New bridges
And flyovers are to be built at many of the interchanges to allow you to
Exit and enter quicker.
I have attached a small presentation of some of the changes at
interchanges.
Electronic tolling will be installed approximately every 10 kms on all
highways. The system is still under design but most likely you will need
to buy a pre-paid tag. The tag is displayed on your front windscreen and
is read as your car passes under the overhead gantry. If you do not own
a tag, your plates will be photographed and at end of the month you will
receive an account for all the times you have used the highways. If you
do not pay they will treat it as an unpaid speeding fine. Private
companies will be employed to monitor this and laws are currently being
revised so that you do not necessarily need to go to court to be
penalized (i.e. a speeding fine will shortly not be a criminal act).
Tolling will start at end of 2010 and I am told the rate will be 50c per
km.
The big plus is the real attempt to reduce congestion.
If you travel on the freeways, your life is about to be disrupted until
2010 as Road Agency has just awarded over R11,0 bn worth of road
contracts to provide various improvements to all highways and
interchanges in this area.
Six major road contracts are all to be constructed simultaneously. More
contracts are planned.
Most highways will now became 8 lanes, 4 in each direction. New bridges
And flyovers are to be built at many of the interchanges to allow you to
Exit and enter quicker.
I have attached a small presentation of some of the changes at
interchanges.
Electronic tolling will be installed approximately every 10 kms on all
highways. The system is still under design but most likely you will need
to buy a pre-paid tag. The tag is displayed on your front windscreen and
is read as your car passes under the overhead gantry. If you do not own
a tag, your plates will be photographed and at end of the month you will
receive an account for all the times you have used the highways. If you
do not pay they will treat it as an unpaid speeding fine. Private
companies will be employed to monitor this and laws are currently being
revised so that you do not necessarily need to go to court to be
penalized (i.e. a speeding fine will shortly not be a criminal act).
Tolling will start at end of 2010 and I am told the rate will be 50c per
km.
The big plus is the real attempt to reduce congestion.
