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# What Auckland Did Differently
- URL: https://goodoil.news/what-auckland-did-differently/
- Published: 2026-02-20T18:30:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-20T18:30:40.000Z
- Description: Best of MountainsideFM.
- Author: MountainsideFM
- Tags: Podcasts, NZ Politics

By removing tolls in 1984, Auckland:

- Lost a dedicated harbour-crossing revenue stream.
- Folded the bridge into general State Highway 1 funding.
- Made any second crossing dependent on national budgets and political cycles.

Sydney treated harbour infrastructure as a permanent premium asset.

Auckland North Shore treated it as a finished project.

The North Shore residents, because of their historic short-sightedness, are now certainly going to pay. The suggested $9 toll per crossing is more retribution than offering them an alternative free carriage way over or under the harbour.

Those Bridge Tolls Should Have Stayed

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