New Region Ten Chairman Rennis Morian is supporting a call by the Linden municipality for the reopening of the Kara Kara toll booth, which he says can fund road repairs.
In his inaugural address as Regional Chairman on Tuesday, Morian said trucks passing through Region Ten with heavy loads, including timber, earth moving equipment and fossil fuel, cause tremendous damage to the roads within Linden, the region and on extended portions of the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
He also said he visits the United States, where road tolls are used to repair roads. “Hence the toll from Kara Kara should be channeled directly into a road rehabilitation programme,” he further said, while pointing out that excluding the roads to