The Automobile Association (AA) has told Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula in an open letter that its research into road funding found “the current model for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project has failed, and will continue to fail” if it is pursued further. The association says it canvassed the views of Gauteng motorists who were being asked to pay the e-toll, which was put in place to pay for the nearly R18-billion improvements to freeways in South Africa’s richest province.