The controversial N1/N2 Winelands Toll Highway Project is now opposed by all the Cape's major political players.
In a rare show of agreement, the DA's Robin Carlisle, the ANC's Marius Fransman and Cosatu's Tony Ehrenreich have taken the same stand on the proposed toll road - they do not want it.
This surprising consensus became clear after the DA launched a campaign on Monday to unite voters in the province against the ANC ahead of the 2014 elections.
Transport and public works MEC Robin Carlisle, said: "One thing is indisputable - this is an ANC toll road. We, the people of the Western Cape, must treat that election as a referendum on the toll road. Every vote for the ANC in the April 2014 election will be a vote for the toll road.
"Every vote against the ANC, regardless of for which party, will be a vote against the toll road."
The DA has accused provincial ANC leader Fransman of "a particularly deafening silence" on the matter.
But Fransman said the ANC was also opposed to the toll road plan and promised to "engage with the relevant stakeholders to make this position clear".
Ehrenreich has also expressed Cosatu's firm opposition to the toll project.
Carlisle said the original plan had been hatched by the national department of transport while the ANC was in power in the Western Cape.
"At no time had the voters of the province asked for these toll roads, and at no time were they consulted until, far down the process, a limited public participation occurred.
"Every single submission received in that public participation was against tolling.”
DA leader in the Western Cape Ivan Meyer told reporters on Monday: "Based on the current tariff at the Huguenot tunnel, a vehicle travelling from Khayelitsha or Mitchells Plain to Cape Town will have to pay a toll of R58 a day for a round-trip. This amounts to R290 a week and R1160 a month."
The city is continuing in its efforts to force the SA National Roads Agency to make public exactly what the project will cost - before proceeding. - Cape Argus