Anyone else fucked off to still be paying tolls on the gateway?
Growing up we were all told the same thing, once the bridge was paid off, it’d be free. Our parents believed it, paid the toll every single day, and were promised that one day it would just be ours
We should have been crossing it for free since around 2016 based on the original deal. Instead in 2011 the Queensland Government extended the tolls, then sold the whole thing off in 2014 to a consortium that includes an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund.
I’m in my mid thirties. The tolls now run until 2051. I’ll be in my sixties before I ever have a chance of crossing it for free, and even that’s not guaranteed because the government will definitely sell it off again or extend the deal.
I’m so sick of this sort of shit plaguing my existence. Life is so expensive fam.