This week's topic for The Sun-Herald's weekly column The Loaded Dog is: Do we need tolls to pay for new and better roads? Are you willing to pay? And would tolls change your driving habits?

We invite entries of no more than 150 words. Please send to loadeddog@sunherald.com.au by 10am on Friday and put "Road tolls" in the email subject field.

Tolls ... peak-hour traffic heads away from the city through the Lane Cove Tunnel. Credit:Steven Siewert

Please include your full name, email address, telephone number and the suburb where you live.

The best will be published in the Extra section of the new Sun-Herald on Sunday.

The Loaded Dog ... ready to explode.

With a nod to Henry Lawson's popular tale of the same name, The Loaded Dog is a forum for readers to debate an "explosive" subject each week.

Rick Feneley, Editor