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Johannesburg - A spokesperson for the SA National Roads Agnecy Limited (Sanral), Vusi Mona, said on Wednesday that nearly 900 000 e-tags had been issued to motorists in Gauteng.
Mona said: "Currently 890 388 VLN/e-tags had been issued and implementation has gone according to plan."The e-tolling of Gauteng highways started on Tuesday last week.
Running smoothly
Motorists without an e-tag had seven days to pay for the use of the tolled roads in Gauteng and after that the transactions were processed and invoices issued.
"The first seven days of toll collection on the Gauteng e-roads only came to an end on Tuesday night and it's too early to report on the issuing of invoices for those e-toll transactions that have not been paid within seven days."
"However, so far the internal processes have been running smoothly," said Mona.
He said it should be noted that the legal obligation to pay e-tolls arose from using the tolled roads and passing underneath a toll gantry.
Three gantries
"The legal obligation to pay toll[s] does not arise from an invoice that is forwarded to a user," he said.
In terms of regulations, the user had a seven-day grace period to pay the toll.
Mona said 42 of the 45 toll gantries were fully operational.
"The last three gantries will become operational shortly," he said.
Equipment on these three gantries could be fitted and calibrated only once the construction of the road had been completed.
