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Vision Of ArriveAlive.co.za | Arrive Alive South Africa - 1 views

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CAT PAT research arrive alive

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  • Vision Of ArriveAlive.co.za
  • "To develop an effective road safety information portal that will enhance awareness of road safety and save lives"
  • enhance and provide more information on these and other international efforts to improve road safety.
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  • assist the following target groups: The Department of Transport Officials at the Arrive Alive Campaign Road users Tourists Students and scholars doing research projects on road safety. Private business in a variety of industries including motoring, trauma and healthcare, legal and insurance companies Victims of road accidents and their families
  • will also benefit visitors from other countries worldwide  - and especially other road safety initiatives and campaigns in Africa!
  • knowledge can only be shared through the unselfish contributions from people with expertise in a wide variety of fields
Goosen E

Step-up Arrive Alive Campaign - Inkatha Freedom Party - 0 views

www.ifp.org.za/...step-up-arrive-alive-campaign

campaign freedom party CAT PAT research

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  • 30 November, 2015
  • Department of Transport must increase the visibility of traffic officers on our roads and ensure that regular and random vehicle roadworthy inspections are being carried out.
  • focus on vehicles used for public conveyance
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  • IFP Spokesperson on Transport, Mr Petros Sithole, MP, said “the consistently high visibility of traffic officers on our roads will go a long way in preventing such incidents
  • passenger taxi was overloaded
  • carrying more than twenty people.
  • We urge the Department of Transport to understand that campaigns like “Arrive Alive” should not only be a festive season initiatives but rather continuing campaigns.
Goosen E

Gauteng's e-tolls & you - 2 views

ewn.co.za/...Gautengs-e-tolls-and-you

Gauteng e-toll

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  • Whether we like it or not, e-tolling has arrived in Gauteng. Up until now the gantries erected across the province's highways have been a new addition to the urban landscape and the object of much anger, but they have not yet played a role in picking our pockets.
  • The e-toll team is made up of two entities: the first is state-owned enterprise South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral), which is the implementing authority, and Electronic Toll Collection (ETC), which is the operating company.
  • Sanral is responsible for the design, financing, maintenance, operation and rehabilitation of South Africa's national toll and non-toll roads,
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  • Road users can register through a variety of channels
  • At [e-toll customer service centres
  • Online
  • By phoning
  • Through [downloading a customer information sheet
  • By sending your vehicle licence plate number to 44004 and Sanral's call centre will phone back to complete the registration; or
  • By [scanning the QR barcode on the Sanral website
  • payment with your credit card
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      7. What is the process of getting registered for e-toll?
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      8. What are "gantries"?
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      9. How is payment collected by these structures?
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      10. How would the road user benefit from fitting an e-tag?
  • 43 overhead gantries along the N1, N3, N12 and R21 highways
  • Each gantry is fitted with toll collection equipment that recognises a vehicle's e-tag (if one has in fact been fitted) and photographs the front and back vehicle licence plate number as well as the top of the vehicle. The e-tag will reportedly emit a 'beep' when passing under a gantry.
  • Sanral's argument is that by fitting an e-tag the user will qualify for discounted tariffs of 48%
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Uber sparks taxi row in South Africa's Johannesburg - BBC News - 2 views

www.bbc.com/...world-africa-33431722

shared by Goosen E on 24 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • 8 July 2015
  • Taxi drivers in South Africa have had a fierce reputation dating back to the days of apartheid and have often resorted to violence to protect their routes.
  • In the posh business area of Sandton, a passenger was pulled out of an Uber car a week ago and the driver was threatened with whips and batons. The meter taxi drivers say they are angry with Uber for taking their customers, and making business difficult for them.
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  • Under apartheid the white minority government had neglected to provide reliable public transport for the majority of South Africans. Mostly black individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit took it upon themselves to start an informal taxi service. They have been running it for decades.
  • Now the government wants to regulate it and it is finding it difficult to penetrate the multi-billion dollar industry. Minibus taxis ferry millions of people every day to and from work. They provide an essential service.
  • And it is under this tense climate that the innovative Uber business idea has arrived.
  • customer
  • her Uber driver was too scared to pick her and her husband up from Sandton after being harassed by the metered taxi drivers.
  • Uber in AfricaLaunched in Johannesburg in 2012
  • Uber prices are cheaper and its cars are much cleaner
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      7. How did the current taxi service in SA started?
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      8. Why do people prefer Uber cars to taxis?
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      9. Where is the Uber head office?
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      10. Why do taxi owners feel that Uber gets preferential treatment from SA government?
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      11. What influence did the intimidation of Uber drivers and customers had on the Uber service?
  • a regular Uber customer
  • she has found ways of using the service, undetected by metered taxi drivers.
  • "I ask them to pick me up away from designated pick-up spots in order to enjoy the cheaper service without being intimidated."
  • Its Johannesburg general manager, Alon Litz, said in statement that intimidation was getting worse.
  • "We are in constant communication with the drivers assuring them that their safety is our number one priority. We're looking into ways to reduce cases of intimidation," he said. 'Like third-class citizens'
  • I asked 70-year-old Peter Moloi what problem he had with Uber?
  • that Uber annoyed him because it had jumped the queue for operating licenses.
  • "We are tired of being treated like third-class citizens in our own country."
  • foreign-owned firm received its taxi licence quickly, compared with some of his colleagues who had waited for years.
  • Uber in South Africa had one million rides in 2014 - in the first half of this year it has already reached double that.
  • headquartered in San Francisco in the US
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