While he is fully tika in supporting road pricing, Prebble also seems to have fallen into the great road pricing trap, which is thinking of it as simply another way to raise funds. But first and foremost, road pricing is a demand management tool. And so it is with urban driving. Thus, as a demand management tool, road pricing actually reduces the pressure to spend ever greater sums on building and widening roads. On this, we can all agree with the venerable Richard Prebble CBE:“Solve traffic, and Auckland is the best city in the world.”Share this
