Bridge toll milestone

Today marks the 15th anniversary of tolls ceasing on the old Tauranga Harbour Bridge.
It's notable that if it were not for the unrelenting efforts of the Tolls Action Group and the final refusal of many people to pay the toll, which was being unlawfully used to pay for roads they did not use and could not use, tolls would still be on the bridge.

And they would paying for Route K and other council pet roading projects that had nothing to do with the bridge.

For example, the McCord bridge in the Judea industrial area was paid for by $500,000 of harbour bridge tolls. Today, there will be many thousands of bridge users blissfully unaware of the history and despicable actions of the then-Tauranga City Council.

P Harlen, Mount Maunganui.

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