Scrap metal, airport lights, a giant carwash… these are some of Gautengers’ suggestions for those unpopular toll gantries.
The question of what to do with the 45 gantries if the e-tolls are cancelled was asked on the TollfreeGP Facebook page, which was set up by the DA to fight the tolls.
DA MPL Jack Bloom said there were 111 responses, ranging from the practical to the unprintable.
Here is a sample of suggestions:
Pal Mabelane: How about relocating them to Zuma’s Nkandla homestead? The man’s got a helicopter pad in the front yard, surely he can afford e-tolls.
Janet Padgington: Sell the metal for scrap and build homes for poor people. Turn off the massive amount of lights on them at night, they are using enough electricity to light a town!
Kim McAdam: Use them in the fight against crime. The cameras are already in place. When a car is stolen or hijacked, the authorities will know exactly where it’s gone. The overhead structures could also be used for advertising. They could possibly also be used for monitoring speeding, freeing up traffic cops to actually go and do some constructive work out there.
Louis van Os: They could make lovely gazebos.
Helen Kleynhans: Advertising like billboards. That way they may recover some of their billions!!!
Siza Lugojolo: Airport landing lights at the end of runway.
Lebogang Prancing Lion Mogashoa: Sell them to South African Rugby Union as goalposts.
Thabu Shaku: Dismantle them and create jobs by recycling the steel.
Warren Rocchi: We could make them into a giant carwash, the first would rinse, the second foam, third could scrub, fourth wax and fifth dry… The Star