Been talked about in Melbourne too.  Wouldn't worry me, I never take my car into the city.  Traffic congestion and parking is too much of a pain, not to mention far too expensive for the parking.  For me, the train is much easier and way less stressful.  When it has been too difficult to use the train, I just used Uber.  An Uber ride once or twice a year won't break my budget.

As for Sydney, I wouldn't even attempt to drive a car there under any circumstances.  Every time I visit, the traffic is horrendous.

I won't be driving into any city in the future. The changes made to roads and traffic conditions make it impossible to navigate around any city plus Freeway Charges and now a Congestion Tax is now more costly.

I see no reason to travel to Melbourne. Dirty streets, graffiti covered buildings, expensive parking, people being accosted by the druggies and homeless. I can get all my needs from the suburbs so a congestion tax wouldn't come into the picture.

It happens to all cities!

As a child if my father wanted to drive into London he would wake the family up around 5am in the morning and we would drive through the city around 7am to get out to the western and southern counties we are talking about 1955.

Have not driven into any city for donkeys years, I think the last time would have been Melbourne around 1999.

Perth has been planned and the freeway goes straight through the centre of the city and out the other side which is great.

Once again you have to time your travel.

But to get into the centre of Perth we are not interested we have no need to go, we can use the computer to do anything we need that needs to be done.

NSW and Victoria like other areas of Australia needs to decentralize.

We have the space as a country and it needs to be planned to cater for people not just appear on a map.

If you think Sydney is bad you should go to Istanbul with 15 plus million people.

I thought we already paid taxes on roads in the form of Petrol excise,  GST on Petrol,  Registration Fee,  Traffic Improvement Fee,  Stamp duty paid on the insurance of your vehicle,  Compulsory third Party, and then the GST you pay on everything you purchase to keep the vehicle running,  Parking fees.