Toll roads no silver bullet for transport funding difficulties

Toll roads no silver bullet for transport funding difficulties
To toll, or not to toll Penlink – that's the question for Transport Minister Simeon Brown. (Image: NZTA)
Oliver Lewis
Tolling is likely to recover less than a quarter of the cost of most new roading projects, a new report from the Infrastructure Commission suggests.The coalition Government has said it will accept every recommendation from the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) to toll new roads, although Transport Minister Simeon Brown has yet to reaffirm a decision by the previous Government to toll Penlink, which connects State Highway 1 north of Auckland to the Whangaparaoa Peninsula.In that case, NZTA wants to charge motorists ($2 to travel end-to-end at...

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