JOHANNESBRUG -  “We definitely believe this is the kind of public consultation that should have taken place at the start,” said spokesman Patrick Craven following a meeting with the committee yesterday.

The inter-ministerial committee chaired by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has conducted a series of meetings with stakeholder’s including the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) who won a court battle to halt e-tolling in April. It is hoped that these meeting would find a solution to the e-toll crisis.

Cosatu had not changed its view that e-tolls was not the way to help fund the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project, he said.

“We have put forward various funding models on a long and short term basis to clear the SA National Road Agency’s debts.”

Motlanthe was quoted as saying that: “The idea is for us to explore the best possible way of finding a solution to this challenge.”