More than a dozen drivers in New South Wales pay more than $30,000 in toll fees each year, newly released figures show.
Data from state government-owned provider E-Toll shows NSW motorists spend $2.5 billion a year driving on toll roads.
The data focused on the period between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024 and on 1.4 million customers, excluding businesses or private account holders.
It shows 901 motorists paid between $10,000 and $20,000 in annual tolls.
They were mostly from western Sydney, from Bankstown to Blacktown and Marsden Park to Moorebank.
The most used toll road was WestConnex with 43 percent of users, followed by the M7 (16 percent), the M5 (12 percent), the Sydney Harbor Bridge and Tunnel (12 percent) and the M2 ( 8 percent). .
But the number of motorists paying toll bills of more than $10,000 is likely much higher because the data does not include toll spending from private provider Linkt, the state government said.
NSW Roads Minister John Graham said the fees paid were “mind-blowing”.
“We have almost 1,000 motorists whose annual toll spend exceeds $10,000, which is a significant tax no matter who you are – but the fact is that the drivers paying these exorbitant bills are in our western suburbs or on the Central Coast, where people can at least afford it,” he said.
