Motorists are not using Sydney's cross city tunnel

It seems that many other motorists are also deciding to vote with their feet on the new cross city tunnel. Patronage has been less than one third of what was expected over the last two weeks since it has opened.

As previously stated, I will never use it, because if people start using these tollways, more will be built. Then before we know it, every major road in Sydney will be privately owned, inadaquate and cost money just for the privaledge of travelling on it. The citizens of Sydney need to make this toll road not work, and make these greedy enterprises who have a stranglehold over Government realize that they will not get away with ripping off every day workers, especially when it means closing existing roads to try to force people to pay to use the private road. That was the final straw for me. We are supposed to live in a country of choice, and yet, a large corporation can lobby the RTA to close roads so theirs becomes more profitable and the only available route for motorists.

Here is a rather good article that sums it up.