‘Tolls discriminate’: western Sydney residents face $60 a day levy to drive into CBD

Cars enter the WestConnex M4 tunnel at Haberfield in Sydney. Tolls on WestConnex increased by 6.1% from 1 January. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Ammar’s daily commute from Bankstown to Barangaroo in Sydney’s CBD can cost him almost $60 a day, an amount he describes as “ridiculous”.

“It feels like we are paying a tax for living in western Sydney – and … the further out west you are, the more you pay.”