What Auckland Did Differently

By removing tolls in 1984, Auckland: * Lost a dedicated harbour-crossing revenue stream. * Folded the bridge into general State Highway 1 funding. * Made any second crossing dependent on national budgets and political cycles. Sydney treated harbour infrastructure as a permanent premium asset. Auckland North Shore treated it as a finished project. The North Shore residents, because of their historic short-sightedness, are now certainly going to pay. The suggested $9 toll per crossing is more retribution than offering them an alternative free carriage way over or under the harbour. Those Bridge Tolls Should Have Stayed 0:00 /389.053107 1×