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Dear Reader, Driving to work these days can be as challenging as doing your job. In fact in some ways it could be just as stressful. The road rage that kicks in when the taxi cuts in front of you or the frustration that sets in when you have to "patiently" move 3km every half hour and let's not forget our very own Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) that take the liberty of pulling people off in peak hour traffic - those are all symptoms of the classic feeling, "I could just kill someone." I honestly feel for the guys from Pretoria (heck I'm one of them) that have to battle it through the traffic every morning, just to get to Joburg on time for work. Saying it's a mission is an understatement. But now, driving alone on Gauteng's highways might soon be unaffordable. Tolls, big brother cameras for traffic offenders and electronic devices attached to cars are to become the norm if the government has its way. This is one of government's strategies to force Gauteng residents to make use of public transport. Is this another waste of tax payers' money or have we found a real solution?
Minister apologises
for eNatis
BY LEON
ENGELBRECHT , ITWEB SENIOR WRITER
READ IN THIS STORY:
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Johannesburg, 8 May 2007
] -
Transport minister Jeff Radebe today apologised to South Africans
for the inconvenience caused by his department's troubled electronic
National Traffic Information System (eNatis) project.
“The Department of Transport, the contractor and myself unreservedly apologise for the inconvenience caused. I am confident the benefits of such interventions (eNatis) outweigh the inconvenience.” He was adamant that the implementation was not a “monumental
mess”, as put to him by a journalist. The system has been plagued
by operational problems since its launch on 13 April. South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) recently announced a scheme consisting of at least seven separate projects, which will be rolled out by 2010. This will be in an effort to solve the problems on SA's roads. The multimillion-rand traffic system compares with London's so-called Ring of Steel, which was built in the early 1990s to curb crime. Sanral's i-Traffic pilot project was implemented in October last year but I'm not sure if it has proved to be much of a success. More than 73 CCTV cameras were placed on the Ben Schoeman highway between John Vorster Road in Centurion and the Buccleuch interchange. These cameras are monitored from a network management centre (NMC) in Midrand and messages are sent to electronic signs at strategic spots. Alex van Niekerk, Sanral's project manager, and his team have been working on the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) project since 2001 when similar schemes were rolled out in the United States, Europe and Asia. The ITS is "closely related" to the R22-billion Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) that was reported on in various media last week. The GFIP will have extra lanes on the highways, ramp metering on some on-ramps, electronic vehicle identification (EVI) and a tolling system. The plan with EVI is to add a computer chip to vehicle licences that are picked up by sensors on the highways. On costs, he is more cagey. "We are now busy with a project to finalise costing models. The tariffs quoted in the media were discount tariffs [it was reported that motorists could be charged 30c per kilometre]. "The idea is that every vehicle will be fitted with an electronic device. The device is linked to your bank account, from which the amount will be deducted. It is pay as you go," Van Niekerk says. And herein lies the crux. Not only will this money be used to finance the project, but Sanral hopes it will discourage people from travelling by car. "In London, no roads were built, but charges were introduced. If you want to use private transport, you have to pay. "Here, the tolling would be a mechanism to finance the project -- the upgrading of freeways costs about R40-million per kilometre. But it would also be a mechanism to make the use of private transport unattractive," Van Niekerk says. Well they sure seem to have this all this figured out, except if we can't afford to travel on highways, how are we going to get to work? I'm not pinning my hopes on the Gautrain. It would be lovely to hop on a train and read the paper on the way to work, while sipping my morning coffee, but I just don't see this happening. The inability of access to stations from different areas will make it difficult. You would have to drive to a station and then get on to the train. This just doesn't make sense. I hope I'm wrong on this one because I'd love to get to work with my blood pressure at normal levels. Radebe unveils new scheme to curb overloading June 08, 2007, 21:15More than R20 million has been set aside for a project to curb
overloading of heavy vehicles, Jeff Radebe, SA's transport minister,
said in Pretoria today.
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