From today, all cars and two axle vehicles will have to pay $1.50 to use the Route K toll road.
Tauranga City Council chief executive Ken Paterson says the toll for three axle vehicles will remain at $2.
Bicycles and motorcycles remain exempt from paying tolls on Route K.
Trucks, or vehicles with four axles or more, will remain at $4.
Ken says people who have a partially used Route K Quick Card after today will need to have cash available to top up the toll payment if the balance on the card is not enough to cover the full $1.50 toll.
He says alternatively the balance can be paid with another Quick Card.
Quick Cards are available from Council's Customer Service Centre, libraries and the Route K Toll Plaza office.
15 comments
Not worth it
Posted on 01-01-2012 14:19 | By mykgold102
Sorry but I just can't justify the cost of $1.50. There is a point that something no longer is a good value and you have just passed it.
I agree
Posted on 01-01-2012 15:18 | By bruceandliz
With a toll rise Route K is no longer an option. Tauranga City Council must have their head in the sand to think that raising the toll will naturally bring in more money.
Route K increase
Posted on 01-01-2012 15:24 | By algail
Another nail in the coffin of stupidity. I wonder what the last nail will be or what will be the last straw for the TCC Raising a toll will more than likely bring about less use of route K. One has to wonder will such an increase even cover the wage cost for running the booths and doing the banking and road maintenance. Alastair Bethlehem
TOLL INCREASE
Posted on 01-01-2012 16:26 | By THOMAS BROWN
Sure there has not been an increase in the toll since the opening in 2002, but to only increase the toll on cars seems a bit out of hand. officials have justified it in their usual closited way, they are completely breft of commercial ability to manage even "A booze up at my Sebel even with a TCC credit card to pay for it all"!
unbelievable
Posted on 01-01-2012 19:11 | By carjomaha
If they want to make more money try dropping the toll to 50 cents, you will then create a significant increase in usage and generate more money, this increase will only result in fewer cars using the road
Disgusted
Posted on 01-01-2012 19:19 | By wonkidonki
Really what gets me is that they have had years to fix the toll road, if you travel on the road lately its quite bad since there has been no maintenance at all, AND WHY DID TCC KEEP THE PRICE INCREASE QUIET??? I think TCC has once again shafted the rate payers.
another one bites the dust
Posted on 01-01-2012 19:34 | By honeycup
well they just lost out on our money as we will make sure we no longer use the toll road. It occurs to me that they will have well and truly covered their costs in the 10 yrs of operation and now are just lining their pockets...not to mention wasting their money on wages employing people to collect olls that they have now effectively halved...Unbelievable has the right idea! decrease the toll and you will find the money rolling in
Relocate the council offices to K-road
Posted on 01-01-2012 20:25 | By The Tomahawk Kid
Relocate the council offices to half way down K-road, and make the councillors who approved this insanity pay for their stupidity.
tolls
Posted on 01-01-2012 21:56 | By len barron
what are they thinking.drop price of tolls . more cars more income . raise price less cars less income.
SHEEPLE!
Posted on 02-01-2012 02:03 | By PLONKER
They the officials at TCC live is a glass box that is sheltered from the real world, They know not what you speak of. TOMMY HAWK, yes agreed but to be effective there should be a toll booth at each end and citizens (not TCC wombles on the payroll types) are exempt from paying.
What a bunch of idiots!
Posted on 02-01-2012 08:47 | By TheCameltoeKid
This is what happens when the good people of Tauranga vote in a total load of fools. It's a pity that the Western Bay doesn't have a say because obviously that is where the population with a higher IQ tend to live. You wouldn't see Ross Paterson making stupid decisions like this. Don't count on a reversal of this decision because that would be an admission of failure. Time will tell when the figures come through but even if they remain the same TCC will be trumpeting their success. Time the Western Bay took over Tauranga City and get these nutters out of local government!
They have Lost Customers Here Too
Posted on 02-01-2012 14:20 | By quinn
My wife and I both have toll cards and used them every day - but this price increase means we would be paying $6 a day to use the toll road. It's not gonna happen and we will use other routes. Why don't they provide concessions for regular users with toll cards (just like regular bus users can get concessions) and make the one-off users pay the full price. Like when I used to smoke, the price of the tolls has now become a significant factor in my decision NOT to use it anymore.
Another on lost to the toll
Posted on 02-01-2012 17:58 | By The author of this comment has been removed.
We won't be using it anymore. I will clog up the back roads like everyone else will. Priced out of usefulness for the people who should be encouraged to use it. See ya all in the traffic jams.
What else is left...
Posted on 03-01-2012 09:40 | By Jimmy51
The TCC will put this town back in the dark ages with there lack of sense and what the public want and what would make them money. First the speedway and now the tools all things that have been priced out of most peoples budgets. Take note Mr Guy your all about whats best for the rate payers. Drop the tolls to 50 cents and drop drop the price of entry into baypark to $10 or $15. If you want money and bums on seats theres your answer
JIMMY51
Posted on 03-01-2012 15:26 | By SCOTT NUFFIN4U
Sorry mate you missed the true purpose of TCC, that is to loose money, make losses bigger, employ way to many staff to do so, there is no chance that TCC will make money from K Road or Baypark becasue it is the capacity of the brain that is the problem, they just should not be there.
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