Australia’s infrastructure chair Julieanne Alroe spoke at a Committee for Economic Development Australia lunch in Brisbane on Tuesday, warning Australia needs to find a new way to pay for roads.
Ms. Alroe recommended governments scrap registration fees and the fuel excise, and launch an inquiry into replacing them with models that directly charges the users of particular roads.
Ms. Alroe made a point by saying, “If in a couple of years we do see a big take-up of electric vehicles, we will not have enough money to fund the maintenance on our roads, much less the development of new roads.”