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Road-user charges can pay for more than just road maintenance – NZ could lead the way

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The government heralded its plan to move New Zealand’s entire vehicle fleet to road-user charges as a fairer method of funding road maintenance.

For owners of electric and diesel vehicles, this is nothing new. They already pay road-user charges based on the distance travelled.

But for petrol vehicles, it is a shift away from fuel...

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