Tuesday, 4 March 2025

US Federal Highways Administration terminates agreement authorising New York congestion charge

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On 20 February 2025 the Executive Director of the US Federal Highways Administration wrote to the Commissioners of the New York State and Ci...
Wednesday, 26 February 2025

Iceland confirms it will be the first country to fully replace fuel tax with distance based road user charges

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Early last year I wrote about how Iceland was the first country ever to mandate a distance-based road user charge for electric vehicles and...
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Denmark successfully introduces RUC for heavy trucks, Netherlands will be next

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To little fanfare, on the 1st of January it was mandatory for trucks operating on national highways and some municipal roads, in Denmark, wi...
Monday, 10 February 2025

Australia and road user charging

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It's pleasing to see Australian Federal Treasurer, Hon. Dr Jim Chalmers, be upfront about the need for Australia to introduce a road us...
Monday, 6 January 2025

New York's congestion charge is live, but it started on a Sunday

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Yes New York is different from the rest of the United States, and Lower Manhattan is different from the rest of New York.  Every statistic a...
Monday, 18 November 2024

New York congestion charging is back : 5 January 2025

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In May 2024 I wr ote on how the Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul had suspended what was then called the Central Business District Tolling ...
Friday, 30 August 2024

New Zealand aims to shift all vehicles onto road user charges

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Yesterday, 29 August 2024, the New Zealand Minister of Transport, the Hon. Simeon Brown, outlined the Government's ambitions on revenue ...
Tuesday, 20 August 2024

Responding to Simon Wilson of the NZ Herald on Auckland congestion pricing

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First a warning. I don't use this blog as a place for debate or polemics, but on this occasion, I have decided to respond to an article ...
Monday, 19 August 2024

New Zealand Government to introduce legislation to enable congestion pricing: Part One - Summary

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Auckland - the Congestion Question general depiction of locations for congestion pricing As US advocates for road pricing mourn that New Yor...
Monday, 29 July 2024

"Motorists First" - Findings of the Independent Toll Review for the NSW Government - Part Three: The Recommendations

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Given the findings of the Independent Review, and particularly the highly controversial Interim Report (which essentially called for the NSW...