Well what about the Sydney Harbour bridge then.

"In 2018, about 200 trains, 160,000 vehicles, 3000 pedestrians and 1900 cyclists cross the bridge every day, NSW Roads and Maritime Services said, equating to about 58.4 million vehicles a year."

"Toll rates on weekdays are $4.00 between 6:30am – 9:30am and 4:00pm – 7:00pm. It is $3.00 between 9:30am – 4:00pm and $2.50 between 7:00pm – 6:30am. If you are travelling on weekends then it will cost $3.00 between 8am—8pm and $2.50 between 8pm – 8am."

So say an average cost of $3.50 x 60 million, that's 210 million, roughly the same as the QLD bridge.

Do you reckon the Sydney Harbour Bridge has been paid for yet?
It was built in 1923... nearly 100 years.

Probably built by Anzacs from Gallapoli, that's how old it is.
Yet someone some bureaucrat still wants to make money from it.

AC, I hate to correct you, you knowing all; "it was built in 1923",construction begun in 1924, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was officially opened 19th March 1932, by Australia's greatest politician never to be Prime Minister, John (Jack) Thomas Lang, also called "The Big Fella" Premier of New South Wales. My Old Man was a young Langite in 1932, and attended the opening of the bridge. Its a good story, that bridge opening. Frances De Groot a mounted member of the fascists New Guard, decked out in his WWI officers military uniform, rode up and slashed the ribbon before Lang could cut it. The ribbon was retied and the ceremony continued, with De Groot led away by the coopers.

Without checking, I believe about 15 men died constructing the bridge. Which was remarkable for the time, as worker safety was nothing more than a minor consideration. Around the same time about 100 men died constructing the Hoover Dam in America. You might be right, they didn't get killed on the Western Front, but fell off a bridge in Sydney and that was the end of them.

I aint going to argue with you Paul, I wasn't around then, so I don't really know.
- But I did check before I posted it and stupid google says construction started July 28 1923
http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=sydney+harbour+bridge+built

Cool story.
I wonder if those 15 blokes wives and families got compensation.
And the government is still cashing in on it today.
I think all these toll roads need a rethink.
I've got no problem paying my share when I cross it - if they need the money to build it.
- But charging tolls forever on infrastructure that's already paid for itself just isn't right.