Ed Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday, Western Sydney motorists, unbelievably, had to confront the reimposition of tolls on the M4—a road they paid off back in 2010. They're paying $50 a week now on tolls. These tolls will hang around. I'll be a 90-year-old before the tolls go. It is phenomenal that yet again they're forced to pay for this road. Western Sydney residents are the most tolled residents in the country and some say the world. When you look at the per-kilometre tolling of roads in Sydney and compare it to other parts of the world, it's likely that we are the most tolled people, not only in a city but on the planet. Western Sydney residents are being punished. They are forced to move out to the urban fringe because that's where land is the cheapest and then they're punished, if they dare try to travel from the west to the east, with these tolls.

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