More ANC toll-roads revealed
At a Portfolio Committee of Transport strategic planning session last week, the CEO of the South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL), Nazir Alli, revealed new toll-roads that the entity is considering for implementation. These new toll-roads are in addition to N1-N2 Winelands toll road in the Western Cape, the N2 Wild Coast toll road in the Eastern Cape and e-tolls in Gauteng.
Nazir Alli revealed that as part of SANRAL's 2012/13 Strategic Plan, the entity is considering building new toll-roads in the following areas:
- N3 Durban to Pietermaritzburg;
- N12 Kimberley to Johannesburg;
- N1 Ring road at Musina;
- N1 Kroonstad to Winburg; and
- N1 Botlokwa Interchange and pedestrian facilities.
These toll roads will hit the poorest South Africans the hardest. It will increase the price of doing business, result in food price increases and will inevitably undermine economic growth and job creation.
The DA will fight these new ANC toll-roads, as we are doing in the Western Cape and Gauteng.