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Ryan Bridge: Would you pay $9 to cross the Auckland Harbour Bridge?

The answer depends on whether you can afford it. Congestion charging is coming and that'll add to the cost if you need to drive for work.

This is only a proposal, based on the original toll, inflation-adjusted, almost 70 years ago.

The suggestion, nothing's hard and fast, comes from an Infrastructure Commission report.

We know there'll be a toll to cross the new bridge, or tunnel, whichever gets built - the Government already told us that.

What we know now is that the both the old and the new crossing will be tolled. So, there's no avoiding it. If you can avoid it, they don't collect the…

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