Automatic toll system clicks in

SEVERAL toll plazas had switched to automated pay systems for road users with electronic tags in an effort to ease festive season traffic, the SA National Roads Agency (Sanral) said yesterday. “At midnight on December 4 the automated pay system on these existing toll roads became operational. Road users with electronic tags no longer have to stop to pay tolls manually with cash or credit cards,” said Sanral spokesman Vusi Mona. “We have become one of very few countries in the world with a fully inter-operable electronic toll collection system.” The toll plazas are the N1 from Pretoria to Musina in Limpopo, the N1 between Bloemfontein and Johannesburg, the R30 in Brandfort in the Free State, the N17 between Johannesburg and Ermelo, the N2 South Coast route and the N3 Mariannhill in KwaZulu-Natal. – ANA