The NSW government will push ahead with an overhaul of the city’s patchwork of toll roads, putting it on a collision course with motorway giant Transurban.
NSW Roads Minister John Graham has sharpened his resolve to shake up Sydney’s patchwork of toll roads, insisting the state government is already considering how new laws can be used to make the system fairer for motorists.
Graham said it was prudent that the government was working on ways to drive the “complex reform”, including looking at how legislation could be used to achieve it. Graham said that, under the existing long-term contracts for Sydney’s toll roads, the problem was growing every year and over decades was unsustainable.released in March was for the government to create a state-owned authority to set tolls across Sydney’s motorway network and ensure greater market competition. It would be a major shift away from the existing system whereby concession agreements for individual motorways determine the charges motorists pay.
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