Irish trucks forced onto toll roads
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• Hauliers in Ireland may be forced onto new toll roads under an ambitious road building scheme.
The National Roads Authority plans to build eight national toll roads using Public Private Partnership funding. It says these roads would be in addition to the existing network so hauliers could choose not to use them.
But the Irish Road Haulage 'Association believes hauliers will be forced onto the new toll roads. IRHA President Gerry McMahon says: "Three-tonne weight limits are increasingly being introduced locally, and lorries would be forced onto roads where tolls will apply." It is believed that using the toil roads would cost about IRE6 a trip.
"There has to be a full stop to cost increases," says McMahon.
New roads likely to get tolled sections include: • The Dundalk bypass and the Boyne Bridge; • The Dublin-Monaghan route; • Two sections on the Galway-Dublin road; • Two sections on the Limerick-Dublin route; • Two sections on the CorkDublin road.
Any new toll roads will have to be approved by the Minister for the Environment; the plans will be subject to public inquiries.