TRAFFIC using Brisbane Airport Link could fall 10 per cent when tolls rise from April 18. Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)
TRAFFIC using Brisbane Airport Link could fall a "disastrous" 10 per cent when tolls are increased later this month, adding to congestion on busy surface roads.
Receivers for tunnel operators BrisConnections yesterday confirmed a 50 per cent toll increase from April 18.
It would take the cost of using the tunnel between Bowen Hills and Kedron or Kedron and Toombul from $2 to $2.90. A journey between Bowen Hills and Toombul would rise from $2.90 to $3.75.
Paul Turner from peak motoring body RACQ said the decision to go ahead with the increase was disappointing.
"What it means is (Airport Link) won't be achieving what we wanted, and that is easing congestion," Mr Turner said.
"We have seen that with other inner city toll roads there is a sensitivity to price rises and there'll probably be about a 10 per cent decline in traffic volumes with the tolls rise and that's really disastrous."
BrisConnections was placed into receivership in February with debts of more than $3 billion.
Poor patronage was blamed for its financial woes after traffic numbers failed to get even close to the forecast of 135,000 vehicles a day.
Mr Turner said the RACQ wanted more cars using Airport Link and higher tolls were not the way to achieve that.
Tolls are also scheduled to increase on the Go Between Bridge from July 1, jumping 38 cents to $2.88.
River City Motorway, which operates the Clem7 Tunnel, has State Government permission to increase its tolls from $4.05 to as high as $4.62 this year but no decision on a rise has yet been made.
The embattled tollway carried an average of 25,462 vehicles in the first three months of this year, up nearly 10 per cent on the December figure.
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