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The Daily Telegraph – Wednesday 27 October 2004 Councils want CBD drivers to pay LOCAL councils yesterday backed the controversial concept of a new London-style congestion tax to apply to cars entering Delegates at the Local Government Association conference in Armidale yesterday backed the levy, which has been implemented in Hundreds of delegates from major metropolitan and regional councils voted that “this conference urges the Minister for Transport to investigate as a matter of urgency a congestion levy for Sydney CBD.”
As well, it voted that a decision on the M4 East tunnel extension be postponed, until there was a “more strategic and sustainable blueprint and long-term strategy for public transport in She said people were still driving to the CBD, which was creating momentum for governments to investigate tunnels such as the M4 East. “I know the © This work is copyright and is reproduced under licence from News Limited
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