I was disappointed to see my ward councillor Steve Morris misleading readers in his last column (page 11, The Weekend Sun, April 27). He said NZ First promised to remove Route K tolls but the government was looking at double-dipping by tolling the Papamoa East interchange that's being built by TCC.

It is irrelevant who is building the interchange and it is mischievous of him to say the interchange is being tolled when it won't be. Steve and many others cannot seem to grasp that the legal obligation to pay a toll on the Eastern Link arises from the use of the road (not because you pass under the present toll collection gantry or other future gantry).

The Papamoa East interchange is situated almost half-way along the toll road from Domain Road and both-way users of that section must pay a toll. A gantry has to be placed at the interchange to collect those tolls.

There will be no double-dipping.

P Harlen, Mount Maunganui.