Region. Toll on M4 could return

Previously secret cabinet documents reveal financial modelling for the $9.7 billion M4 East project includes a toll on part of the M4 between Church Street at Merrylands and Concord Road at North Strathfield, which would be widened from three lanes to four in both directions. The toll on the M4 was only lifted in February. At the time, the Premier, Kristina Keneally, was urged not to lift the toll by businesses, which argued the revenue could be spent on transport infrastructure. The documents, which formed part of the state government's funding submission to Infrastructure Australia in 2008 and 2009, were released to the Legislative Council in response to a call for papers by the Greens, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.