'Tolling in complex and inequitable'

The City of Cape Town has made it clear that it opposes tolling as a means of funding road infrastructure. “Not only is it an extremely complex way of raising funds, it is also inequitable,” Brett Herron, Cape Town mayoral committee member for transport, told FTW. “People who stay within the toll gates never have to pay for the roads they are using every day while those on the outside of tolls have to pay for all road infrastructure. It is just not a fair system.” For Herron it is important to simplify it even more. “Before we can decide how we are going to fund it, we have to first decide why we need it. The N1/ N2 Winelands route is a prime example where tolling has been decided on as the means of funding the infrastructure upgrade, but those roads don’t need any upgrading at the moment.”