{"id":123208,"date":"2018-01-31T23:07:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123208"},"modified":"2018-10-08T07:36:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T05:36:23","slug":"south-african-roads-set-to-get-much-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/123208-south-african-roads-set-to-get-much-worse","title":{"rendered":"South African roads set to get much worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netwerk24.com\/Nuus\/Politiek\/paaie-se-geld-gebruik-vir-e-tol-se-flop-20181006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rapport<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has stated that South African roads are set to get much worse after funds which were earmarked for national roads will now be used to fund the failed e-toll project.<\/p>\n<p>In an unprecedented step, Treasury has approved money to improve 19,000km of non-tolled roads to instead be used for the running costs \u2013 like staff \u2013 of the failed e-toll project.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rapport, 143 of Sanral\u2019s 339 road design and construction projects have now been reduced to perform the most critical maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>That means that many new roads will not be built, and in turn lead to growing traffic and more problems on existing roads.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chris Campbell from Consulting Engineers South Africa, Sanral is already two years behind with its road build programme.<\/p>\n<p>To further postpone, maintenance and road construction will increase the cost for future improvements, he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>E-tolls close to being scrapped<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In April,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/256083-e-tolls-close-to-being-scrapped.html\"><strong>media reports suggested<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that President Cyril Ramaphosa and Gauteng Premier David Makhura were working to scrap the e-toll project.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa\u2019s spokesperson said they want to find a solution to the e-toll issue as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cE-tolls are high on the president\u2019s agenda and he expects there to be a definitive answer regarding government policy on the matter as soon as possible,\u201d said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>This follows Outa stating that only 30% of road users in Gauteng pay their e-tolls.<\/p>\n<p>This causes massive annual losses for Sanral, as the income from e-tolls is meant to fund a road infrastructure project worth R22 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists reportedly owe Sanral R9 billion in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Outa said it is a disgrace that Sanral is continuing to issue summonses to motorists for their outstanding e-toll debt, when it is clear the system is on its last legs.<\/p>\n<h4>Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/123207-mtns-8-1-billion-nigerian-payment-may-be-cut.html\">MTN&#8217;s $8.1-billion Nigerian payment may be cut<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African roads are set to get much worse after funds which were earmarked for national roads will now be used to fund the failed e-toll project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":35585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25663,3142],"class_list":["post-123208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-e-tolls","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}