Get ready for the return of toll booths

[Quasievil]

$500 million buys quite a lot of road.

maybe, but youre english, your ancestors thought blankets brought alot of land but you got that one kinda well ummmm ...............WRONG

Bwaaaahahhhh

[Sanx]

maybe, but youre english, your ancestors thought blankets brought alot of land but you got that one kinda well ummmm ...............WRONG

Bwaaaahahhhh

Give us back the blankets and muskets, and you can have your land back.

[James Deuce]

Let's get one thing straight. US whalers ran the muskets and blankets economy in NZ prior to 1840 and established a paradigm that the Crown leveraged to turn into land and martial aid in inter-tribal warfare.

[oscarnz]

The sooner they bring them in the better. User pays all the way, I don't see why I should subsidise all the wgtn commuters using transmission gully when I use it maybe 2 times a year!

The modern day "toll booth" is not what most people think. In melbourne you have a little chip thingy on your windscreen. Every time you go under a "toll bridge" it make a sound and you get sent a bill at the end of the month. I would suspect it would be a similar thing over here.

Yeah sounds like that is what is going to be used here, but they are also going to have a self service kiosk at the BP just before Silverdale.

The finer details are currently being ironed out now.

[McJim]

Does this mean that we, in the South Island, can stop paying for Auckland's road network then?

[Quasievil]

Give us back the blankets and muskets, and you can have your land back.

I would but both items where made in England and have long since rusted and fallen apart.

[McJim]

I would but both items where made in England and have long since rusted and fallen apart.

Now we know you're taking the piss - blankets don't rust.

[Quasievil]

Now we know you're taking the piss - blankets don't rust.

mmmm true thank you for pointing that out.

[FJRider]

Does this mean that we, in the South Island, can stop paying for Auckland's road network then?

What do you think...

[FJRider]

I would but both items where made in England and have long since rusted and fallen apart.

And family heirlooms in some familys...

[FJRider]

Now we know you're taking the piss - blankets don't rust.

Weren't the early ones made out of steel wool ..???

[Swoop]

Weren't the early ones made out of steel wool ..???

Yes. Ancient Maori knitted their first tank out of them. That is how they won the war.

[Forest]

In Melbourne, motorbikes ride for free on all of the toll-ways.

[Toaster]

Give us a choice, Labour = no choice just power over the people

So very well said!

[mark247]

I dont care about tolls, i take a toll road to town every day on my bike and I dont pay a cent