M1 tolls to be cut by 10c after court ruling

A TOLL operator on the MI motorway agreed to reduce tolls from midnight last night after a High Court judge ruled it was overcharging motorists and said that overcharging should stop.

In a decision with implications for other toll operators, Mr Justice Peter Kelly yesterday upheld arguments by the National Roads Authority of overcharging — said to amount to €26,000 weekly since January 1 last — by Celtic Roads Group (Dundalk) Ltd on the Gormanstown to Monasterboice stretch of the MI.

After the judge indicated he was prepared to grant the NRA an injunction directing the overcharging to stop unless CRG was willing to provide an undertaking to that effect, Maurice Collins SC, for CRG, said his client undertook the tolls would be reduced from midnight last night.