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Irish toll protest blocks motorway
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UP TO 100 TRUCK drivers parked at each end of Ireland's newly opened M4 toll motorway on Monday (16 January) in a protest about the high cost of the route.
The two-hour demo started at 7am: local drivers displayed placards on their trucks expressing disgust at the €6.50 (4.25) toll on the Kilcock/Kinnegad bypass. They parked in front of the toll booths on the bypass and refused to pay the toll.
Jimmy Quinn of the Irish Road alage Association says the protest did not disrupt car traflic: "We just made our point and at 9ain we moved off" Next week the 1RHA will meet the road's operator. Eurol ink, in a bid to strike a deal on the tolls.
The ERNA has previously called on its members to boycott the road, which has the highest truck toll in the country.
Quinn adds: "€6.20 (4.25) seems expensive. The price of the toll was set without the sector being consulted — there seems to he a view in government that the road transport industry is a cash cow."