City fights SANRAL’s N1 and N2 freeway tolling plans in Supreme Court of Appeal
16 August 2016
The City of Cape Town today, 16 August 2016, in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) defended the judgment of the Western Cape High Court that prevents the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) from tolling sections of the N1 and N2 freeways in Cape Town.
SANRAL appealed against the judgment in the Winelands tolling matter that was handed down by Justices Ashley Binns-Ward and Nolwazi Boqwana of the Western Cape High Court on 30 September 2015. The judgment reviewed and set aside the approvals that would enable SANRAL to burden Western Cape road users with R62 billion of tolling costs.
The Winelands tolling case has been dragging on for too long already and was argued before Judges Navsa, Cachalla, Wallis, Petse and Mocumie of the SCA in Bloemfontein earlier today.
The City once again argued in the SCA that the process undertaken by SANRAL to declare portions of the N1 and N2 as toll roads was improper and unlawful, as were some of the decisions preceding this declaration: