{"id":1958,"date":"2022-11-17T15:48:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/no-justification-for-scale-of-road-toll-increases\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T15:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T15:48:28","slug":"no-justification-for-scale-of-road-toll-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/no-justification-for-scale-of-road-toll-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"No justification for scale of road toll increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Transport Minister should veto proposed hike in toll charges\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no justification for the scale of toll increases due to come into effect within weeks, according to Catherine Murphy TD, co-leader of the Social Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith private motorists and haulage companies already struggling with increased fuel costs, the reported rise in tolls from January 1 will come as a further blow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe level of increase, by as much as 60 cent in some cases, is difficult to justify in the current climate. The State-owned M50 \u2013 one of the country\u2019s most notorious bottlenecks \u2013 will heap further misery on road users when toll charges are upped by over nine percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, all the public-private (PPP) motorways are set to bring in the maximum tolls allowed under their agreements with the State. Only users of the Dublin Port Tunnel will be spared from price increases on this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister for Transport needs to read the room and realise how badly this will play with a public already grappling with a cost-of-living crisis. He must immediately intervene by using his veto to stop these increases from going ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) must also explain the rationale behind the scale of the increases. It is difficult to accept their contention that the toll rises are necessary for the maintenance of motorways and the wider road network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrdinary people will end up paying twice for these increases, both in terms of higher tolls and through any costs passed on to consumers due to extra operational expenses incurred by logistics or distribution companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>November 17, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport Minister should veto proposed hike in toll charges\u00a0 There is no justification for the scale of toll increases due to come into effect within weeks, according to Catherine Murphy TD, co-leader of the Social Democrats. \u201cWith private motorists and haulage companies already struggling with increased fuel costs, the reported rise in tolls from January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catherine-murphy","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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