DO NOT PAY THE TOLL:Open Road Toll Fees

People should not install the transponders but still use the highways and force the government to issue accounts and summonses to all motorists until such time they drop the prices. The government will be forced to send out millions of accounts every month and they don't have the man power to do it. This will also cost them!! This is the best and easiest way to boycott the system. What is the government going to do about motorists from other neighboring countries that don't have these transponders? 

South Africans are too complacent and its time we fight back. WE have paid for these roads. Now they are also proposing a 1% tax to fund SABC. If two people are working in one house hold how much is it going to cost?? Where is it going to stop?? 

The Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project includes the introduction of an Open Road Toll (ORT) system which will be implemented along Johannesburg's highways. The ORT will be operated via electronic toll collection points which will read motor vehicles that have been fitted with a transponder in the number plates.  This will allow images of a motorist's number plate to be captured electronically as a vehicle passes through the toll with the toll fees being debited off the motorist's account.  The tolls will be operational by April 2011 with toll points (gantries) placed approximately every 10 kilometres along most of Gauteng's existing freeway network, with a total of 42 gantries on the Gauteng e-tolling network. The highway tolls are estimated to cost a motorist 50 cents per kilometre with a proposed discounted fee applicable for frequent users; however this is still to be confirmed. By calculating the approximate distance travelled on the tolled portion of the highway for a day journey to and from work, the following information below provides an estimate of toll fees a motorist could incur. * Tolled Freeway Distance as measured on Google Earth ** Calculation = distance x estimated cost per km x 2 (round trip) *** Calculation =Roundtrip cost of tolls x 20 days Source: Bradford McCormack