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This is what you will be faced with if you want to drive in Sydney and New South Wales:
IT now costs up to $40 a day in tolls to travel to and from the north shore to the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Drivers can expect to pay more as new roads like NorthConnex and Westconnex are built with money from extending, increasing and reintroducing tolls. To help fund the Westconnex motorway tolls are returning to the M4 and M5. To help pay for Northconnex tolls on the M7 will rise for trucks plus the M2 and Lane Cove Tunnel tolls may be extended. NRMA local director Tim Trumper said if you need to drive across Sydney the only feasible choice is a motorway, run as a monopoly or by the NSW Government. Motorways should refund tolls when there are avoidable delays for example for poor maintenance and late running road works, Mr Trumper said. “It’s time motorists got what they paid for,” he said. All other transport services are subject to independent price and performance oversight and toll prices should be no different, he said. “Our preference is for the M7 model, the tolls on which are CPI-linked.” A spokeswoman for Minister for Roads Duncan Gay said Northconnex will slash travel times and the entire Sydney Orbital network has largely been delivered through partnerships with private companies. “If people find good value in good infrastructure, they will likely use it and motorists will always have a free alternative route,” the spokeswoman said. When Transurban upgraded the M2 in 2013, at a cost of $550 million, the NSW Government contributed to the cost with a four-year extension of the tolls on the M2. Transurban which, operates and co-owns many of Sydney’s toll roads including the M2, the M7, the Eastern Distributor, the Lane Cove and Cross City tunnels, has said it supports a user-pays system for roads.
*A huge new rollout of increased Tolls are expected by Premier Berejiklian is staying close mouthed about anticipated huge rises for motorists in tolls
This bitch just can't stop milking the golden cow
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