Green light for blue lights
Vusi Mona, spokesperson for Sanral, says it is not illegal for their traffic control vehicles, which assist on Gauteng highways, to have blue lights.
He adds that these vehicles need to have blue light and, if they don’t, they operate illegally.
“To suggest anything else, without checking the facts, exposes the shallowness and lack of understanding of those who purport to be experts on the matter,” Mona says.
“In fact, Sanral has taken legal advice every step of the way in implementing the highway e-toll system.”
He adds that those who want to challenge the agency on the legality of the use of blue lights are welcome to do so: “It is not their opinion that matters, but what the law says, and we are confident we have done everything by the book; what we do is legal and that is the case with the blue lights on our vehicles, too.”
Mona says the vehicles comply with applicable legislation and operate within the law when assisting in reducing the scourge of illegal vehicles operating on the roads.
The blue lights are operated only by and in the presence of a traffic officer.
“What is more important here is the effort to do proper enforcement on our roads, thereby addressing issues such as non-roadworthy vehicles, vehicles without number plates or false number plates and other road traffic offences,” Mona explains.
“Self-styled champions of justice and the rule of law ought to be addressing themselves to these issues instead of trying to undermine sound and legal attempts to assist law-enforcers on Gauteng’s highways.” – @CarmenBoksburg
