JOHANNESBURG - Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) on Tuesday said there has been no real or formal progress following a meeting with government to discuss the Gauteng e-tolls.

The alliance and the inter-ministerial committee on e-tolls met on Tuesday for the first time since an interim order preventing the system from being rolled out was set aside by the Constitutional Court.

A high court review of project is expected to start in November.

Outa’s Wayne Duvenage said it is important that a solution is found soon.

“It all boils down to the question of whether to toll or not. Government has indicated that tolling is the way to go. We have to be very careful as to how we will find a solution.”

Outa wants the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) and National Treasury to find alternative ways of funding the upgrades to Gauteng highways.

Under the project, motorists are expected to fork out around 30 cents per kilometre to use a large stretch of the province’s highways.