{"id":2018,"date":"2019-03-22T02:49:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T02:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2019-03-22T02:49:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T02:49:17","slug":"the-liberals-secret-plan-to-toll-the-m4-from-penrith-to-parramatta-revealed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/03\/22\/the-liberals-secret-plan-to-toll-the-m4-from-penrith-to-parramatta-revealed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liberals&#039; secret plan to toll the M4 from Penrith to Parramatta revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a massive hit to Western Sydney families just days out from the election, Premier Berejiklian said there will be a second new M4 toll under a Liberal Government in the Sky News leader\u2019s debate.<br \/>\nThe current M4 toll is the single largest cost of living issue affecting many M4 commuters in Western Sydney.<br \/>\nIn a late night tweet Premier Berejiklian then said she wouldn\u2019t introduce a new M4 toll.<br \/>\nIn the debate the Premier was asked if there would be a second toll west of Parramatta. She said there would be under the Liberals. This part of the M4 is currently toll-free.<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cEither the Premier is so out of touch she doesn\u2019t know where the tolls are or she slipped up and revealed her real plans for after the election,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Shadow Minister for Western Sydney, Prue Car, said.<br \/>\nThe current M4 toll costs more than $2,000 a year for a regular commuter \u2013 dwarfing soaring electricity prices.<br \/>\nThe Liberals are keeping their M4 toll, while Labor is introducing a M4 toll Cashback.<br \/>\n\u201cEvery person I speak to is already feeling the pinch from rising costs. A secret new toll would be cruel and unaffordable. It will blow the family budget for tens of thousands of Western Sydney commuters.\u201d Labor Leader, Michael Daley, said.<br \/>\n\u201cThis will not happen under Labor. I cannot be more certain, under a Government I lead there will no new tolls on old roads. In fact we will introduce massive cut to tolls paid with our M4 Cashback.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis will send a shockwave through Western Sydney,\u201d Shadow Minister for Western Sydney, Prue Car, said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is a disaster for family budgets and the Liberals know this, it\u2019s why they have never whispered a word of a new toll before tonight.\u201d<br \/>\nLabor is committed to a M4 Cashback, which was costed in the independent Parliamentary Budget Office\u2019s official statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a massive hit to Western Sydney families just days out from the election, Premier Berejiklian said there will be a second new M4 toll under a Liberal Government in the Sky News leader\u2019s debate. The current M4 toll is the single largest cost of living issue affecting many M4 commuters in Western Sydney. In &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/03\/22\/the-liberals-secret-plan-to-toll-the-m4-from-penrith-to-parramatta-revealed-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Liberals&#039; secret plan to toll the M4 from Penrith to Parramatta revealed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}