Hauliers face /9 Dublin toll
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• by Brendan Nolan Irish hauliers could be charged a £9 toll I for passing through Dublin city.
Last week traffic consultant Oscar Faber published a
report commissioned by the Environment Department claiming that "congestion charges" would reduce traffic levels, speed up city journey times by 25%—and bring in about II:1140m year. The tolls, which would also apply to cars, would be collected electronically.
The plan will not be welcomed by the city's hauliers, who have been waiting since 1995 for a port tunnel to be built to take trucks out of the port and onto the national motorway system.
As part of that scheme it was proposed that tolls would be charged to private cars moving through the tunnel—but that trucks would be free. Construction work was to have started last year; but a shortlist of tendering firms was only announced last week.
Work on the IRE165m tunnel is due to start in late spring next year; the project is expected to take three-and-a-half years to complete.
Traffic from the port has doubled since 1995 when the motorway-linked twin-bore Port Tunnel was first mooted: more than 900,000 trucks currently travel through the port each year. Dublin: Hauliers face .£.9 toll.