Road lobby view treated like a papal edict

YOU report (December 14) that, according Conor Faughnan of the AA, barrier-free tolling is “absolutely scandalous” and “borders on immoral”. What I find absolutely scandalous is that the rantings of this professional lobbyist are treated by the media with the reverence of a sort of papal edict.

The AA is a breakdown organisation; it does not represent motorists.

Mr Faughan is a professional spindoctor for the road lobby — road-builders, motor manufacturers, etc — which, over the years, has been so successful in using the media to broadcast their propaganda that they have become the received wisdom of the Irish people.