Kenya to Get Road Toll Stations

Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The government is to introduce toll stations on the main highways as a means to subsidize maintenance costs. The targeted highways are The Thika Superhighway and Nairobi-Mombasa Highway.

There are some civic groups that disagree with this in-act though. The biggest downfall is "road maintenance is done using funds from the road maintenance levy which is attached to the retail price of fuel and so subjecting road users to tolling would amount to double taxation," the Consumer Federation of Kenya quickly came out in a statement last week.

Introduction of an electronic toll station system in South Africa's Gauteng Province, (which contains Johannesburg), continues to cause widespread criticism among low income people. Effective from December last year, motorists have to get e-tags. 

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