M50 barrier-free tolling ‘borders on immoral’

PLANS to introduce barrier-free tolling on the M50 motorway are bordering on being immoral, the Automobile Association has claimed.

Thu, 13 Dec, 2007 - 00:00
Evelyn Ring

The AA said the proposal to introduce barrier-free tolling from August next year must be shelved because it was so complicated and so wasteful.

“It is absolutely scandalous. It is almost immoral,” said AA spokesman Conor Faughnan yesterday.

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