The expansion of Sydney’s toll roads into a motorway network means now is the right time to rethink how NSW charges motorists to use them, IPA’s boss has told a parliamentary inquiry.
Prices on toll roads in NSW are inefficient and unfair, and drivers should be charged for total journeys instead of each toll road they use, an inquiry will hear.
Last modified on Sun 7 Mar 2021 17.28 EST Anyone who’s lived in western Sydney in summer will tell you the days of searing heat and burning bitumen feel very different from the rest of the city.
No matter what time of year, it’s generally hotter in the west. Over the past 30 years, the average yearly maximum temperature recorded at Parramatta was 23.7C, compared with 22.8C at Observatory Hill, just across from the Harbour Bridge. But those figures hide the extent of the disparity in the summer months. In January, the average daily maximum in Penrith – Sydney’s western limit at the foot of the Blue Mountains – is 31.2C, compared with 27C in the city centre.