Varadkar: Ruling out new road tolls is common sense

MOTORISTS are already too heavily taxed to take on the burden of extra road tolls, Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has insisted.

The threat of travel charges being imposed at Cork’s Jack Lynch Tunnel as well as the M1 at Dundalk, the N20 between Cork and Limerick and the N11 at Arklow have been lifted.

Mr Varadkar also pledged not to install extra tolls along the M50 in Dublin in addition to the one at the Westlink bridge.