Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Saviour Kasukuwere said that the government is not going backwards on implementing urban tollgates. Adderesi8ng Senators, Minister Kaukuwere said that the urban tollgates are needed to fix roads and claimed that Harare had lost 80 percent of its road network due to heavy rains and excessive use by vehicles from satellite towns.
Said Kasukuwere:
I think urban tolling is a necessary evil. We have to fix the roads
I think it is more expensive to repair broken tyre than to pay a dollar or 50 cents. We think if we can work hard for us to have better roads which we can maintain going forward; it will be in our best interest.
If you look at our Harare network compounded by the flooding and rains, we have actually lost 80% of our road network, hence we need to find a way of working with Government under our disaster programme and the Minister of Transport as well as going forward, let us have a tolling system. So, it is indeed a fact that we have agreed on a policy to set up tolls in the city.
The idea for tollgates was previously considered by Obert Mpofu when he was Transport Minister.
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