It feels like a bad dream
This morning Gauteng motorists woke up to their worst nightmare.
Most of us were holding our breaths yesterday, hoping that the last-ditch application by the Freedom Front would be able to stop or even delay the e-tolls until further notice.
However, the High Court application was dealt a heavy blow when the judge failed to recognise the urgency of the application.
That meant another victory for those in favour of e-tolls and a painful loss for the rest of us who were hoping otherwise.
Last night, a friend of mine said he wished fire could just fall from the sky and consume the e-toll gantries.
I shared his sentiments and learning that religious organisations also threw their weight behind the anti-tolls campaign convinced me that the Almighty might grant our wish.
However, waking up this morning and noticing more traffic on the side roads than on other days, made me realise that our wish did not come true.
But this does not mean the end of the road.
We will continue to be hopeful that something will come to our rescue as long as the masses remain committed to opposing the e-toll project.
The good news to those who are against the e-tolls is that there is talk of the next e-toll resistance phase and perhaps this is the phase in which wishes will be realised.
For now the sad truth is that the project is live and it’s up to Gauteng motorists to decide its fate.
We can all boycott the highway and use back roads as another form of resistance or we can submit to it and ensure that it becomes a successful project.
It’s a take it or leave it situation.
