Currently, three highways have tolls. Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
Officials are working on a national plan for tolling roads but say it does not refer to levying motorists on existing roads.
Government policy supports using tolls as an additional source of revenue to help build and maintain roads.
The New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) has been working on a national tolling plan for several months.
It had yet to present the plan to the NZTA board, and when it does it would contain recommendations that aligned with government expectations, the agency said.
"There is no reference in the National Tolling Plan to the tolling of existing roads," it said.
Currently, three highways have tolls, and other new highway projects such as Mill Road in Auckland, and Ōtaki to North of Levin are in line to get them.
Previous policy was that any revenue raised by a toll had to be ringfenced to be spent on the road that was levied.
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