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Andrew Dickens: You can't escape tax
Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop is into the US for a range of meetings across housing, planning, development and transport.
Notably - he's visiting New York to speak to city officials about their introduction of "CONGESTION PRICING" and how its faring.
Over there - the results of charging people to use the roads in peak times have looked promising so far, and Bishop says he wants "to learn some lessons he could take back here"
it appears congestion charges are inevitable. And not just for the basket case that is Auckland.
Tauranga and Wellington are in the firing line.
And the point…
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