National has unveiled their plan for transport over the next term and it includes some new fees coming your way.
Getting a Motor Vehicle Registration is about to become a lot more expensive, while promises not to raise fuel taxes are being kept – but only just.
All of this is to fund a revival of the National Party’s Roads of National Significance, but are voters going to care when it means higher costs to drive on them?
Today on The Front Page, New Zealand Herald senior political journalist Derek Cheng joins to analyse the Government’s big transport shakeup.
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