It is time to seize Transurban! Governments must fix the toll road monster they created

How did Sydney end up with a toll road system characterised by a lack of competition, inequity, lack of transparency, excessive tolls and toll increases, aimed at looking after the finances of corporations and not infrastructure use, which will cost motorists $123 billion over the next 35 years?

For the few remaining Sydney motorists unaware of how egregiously they are getting ripped off by toll giant Transurban, which dominates the city’s toll roads, the interim report of Allan Fels’ and David Cousins’ toll review — commendably commissioned by the Minns government — provides a detailed description of a system that works very well for Transurban and very badly for the public interest.