No slice of tolls for State until 2021

IT COULD be at least 2021 before the National Roads Authority (NRA) starts to recoup money from Munster’s first toll road.

As part of Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreement, private contractors will be able to collect all the toll money raised on the Fermoy bypass until the number of vehicles using it each day reaches 21,000.

Cork county engineer Ned Flynn has said that currently around 15,000 vehicles a day pass through Fermoy. However, he said, when the bypass opens he expects initially that between 10,000 and 12,000 vehicles will use it daily.