MP calls for end to CTP system which charges neighbours differently

SYDNEY drivers are paying an extra $200 for their green slips compared to people in neighbouring suburbs, leading to calls for the “unfair” system to be fixed.

Traffic on Victoria Bridge over the Nepean River at Penrith, where motorists pay higher premiums than their Emu Plains counterparts.

SYDNEY drivers are paying an extra $200 for their green slips compared to people in neighbouring suburbs, leading to calls for the “unfair” system to be fixed.

Under the state government scheme, car owners in Campbelltown, in the southwest, are slugged up to 40 per cent more for compulsory third party insurance than those down the road in Camden.

Motorists at Penrith are also stung with higher premiums compared with those just across the river at Emu Plains.

Morning traffic on the M5 near the Brooks Rd overpass, Campbelltown, where motorists are stung up to 40 per cent more for CTP than in nearby Camden.

MP Greg Warren.

Campbelltown MP Greg Warren said the pricing system was “broken” and created “unfair” disparities in Sydney’s outer suburbs.

“The percentage of difference is enormous … $200 is a lot of money,” Mr Warren said.

Green slip prices are calculated by postcodes with drivers living in areas classified as “Metropolitan” paying more than those in “Outer Metropolitan” suburbs.

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NSW Finance Minister Victor Dominello said the boundary lines of the five zones are rev­iewed each year.

The government this year offered a green slip ­refund, worth up to $120.

Mr Warren, who has put forward a motion to parliament for the postcode system to be overhauled, said the refund was a “Band-Aid” solution.

“What that says to me is the government knows there is an issue — they are simply not taking it seriously enough,” he said.