Highways quiet as e-tolls kick in
Most Gauteng residents refuse to buy e-tags.
At 12 midnight e-tolling went active across the Gauteng province after a final court bid by the Freedom Front Plus had failed.
Both mainstream media and social media platforms were awash this morning, 3 December, with all things e-toll related. In a poll ran by the Record’s big sister The Citizen, 86 per cent of those polled said they would never buy an e-tag. Not since apartheid has such a large group of people stood together in an act of civil disobedience.
Well-known experts in their fields, celebrities and politicians once again took their stance in public against the dreaded system.
It has been reported by reputable broadcasting media sources that highways were eerily quiet during morning peak hour traffic but that alternative routes were congested.
At e-tag kiosks most consumers who were buying e-tags at the last moment called their actions “grudge purchases”.
In the meanwhile an aircraft with a DA anti-e-tolling banner is said to fly over the tolled highways and there is an anti-e-tolling rally in Germiston during the course of the day.
