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TOLL FARES ARE to be increased on two of the country’s busiest roads from this coming Sunday, 1 January.
The M3 Clonee to Kells and the M4 Kilcock to Kinnegad motorways will see a toll hike of 10c.
Meanwhile, haulage companies stand to face a substantial hit – with charges for trucks increasing on all motorways. They have warned that the increase will add to the cost of moving goods and so impact on consumers.
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Is this on top of the VAT increase? And is the M3 not heavily underused as a result of the two tolls already?
The contract the Irish government signed on our behalf has in it………wait for it. If car do not use your Toll we will guarantee you a income paid for by the taxpayer for 30 years
Kinnegad to Kilcock. By pass the toll! Screw the robbing bastards!
The only thing going down is wages.
I think it’s time journal.ie started notifying us of things that are REDUCING in price cos iv sort if accepted that everything else going up!
Ronnie stop trying to shed any sort of logical conclusion to this debate. It is beneath the usual populist waffle that is favoured by the many that love to speak before considering the fact that investors might not be arsed investing in the Irish road network system without some sort of guarantees.
I’m not for a second suggesting that our previous or existing government have private business experience, but few of us were privy to the information outlining the line of companies lining up to build roads in Ireland or indeed what their terms were.
I actually don’t believe our electorate learned anything from ff’s mistakes. People keep putting the foot of blame of most decisions of our previous governments on the doorsteps on the parties instead of of considering the fact that they didn’t care what decisions were being made while they didn’t know about them. Absentee employers is how I view our electorate. “it’s not my fault my own chosen government fecked up , it’s somebody else’s”!.
As far as I am concerned we are all still reaping the rewards of our negligence of our governments. Whether we vote in the clowns or not, none of us have done enough to provide a credible alternative. That’s why we feel
Helpless and thats why we felt in the last election that anybody but ff was an acceptable position to take.
People are cynical of our political system for good reason. But I believe it simply mirrors the way people like it to be run, whether they acknowledge it or not. People are only interested in themselves and what they can benefit from a candidate. Perhaps if we demanded more nationally beneficial things from our T.D.s we might get a better country that’s better run by people with a superior moral obligation to do the right things for the right reason, as opposed to making populist decisions for vested interest groups.
How is this justified?????
It’s justified because we take it… Simples, we are sheeple.
This is what always happens when you owe the IMF money. The Current government inIreland are blind deaf and dumb to the severe downside to austerity. It tells us we are back to 1990′s wages, but the prices for everything are a lot higher for Josephine and Joe Public. Still when you are a earning at least €120,000 as a Minister in an occupied puppet government, who gives a f**k, right!
It’s justified because private investors would not have financed these roads in the first place had they not had binding assurances that their investments would generate a return.
Is that not the nature of an investment? Surely you assume a level of risk when you undertake it.
Not under current capitalism apparently.
Have to disagree ronnie this is more treachery from this goerment and the last one against its ordinary people
rip off ireland continues
Not sure I follow all that Oran – but you’ve sure proven me wrong about there being nothing in the article to justify a rant :)
The Clonee to Kells motorway has two tolled sections. The 10c mentioned in the article – is that for the entire length of that route or for each tolled section?
Yes Juniorhurler, just about every investment assumes some degree of risk – and some degree of return. I see nothing in this article that would justify a rant.
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