The Harare City Council is considering setting up a tollgate along Harare Drive. The council wants to use the funds raised from the tollgate to maintain the city’s roads. The council said that it will consult the residents about the move although it said that it is not anticipating any resistance. Speaking to the Daily News, Council engineer Gilbert Munyonga said,
Knowing Harare residents, they do not go for cheap things or for poor quality. Once you put something of poor quality, even for a stop-gap measure, you will see they will talk about it. When they want something of high quality, by virtue of being high-quality people, I think they should be in a position to sustain that kind of lifestyle, and the only way to do that in the roads sector is to pay road user charges.
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