Toll charges - Cash must be put back into roads

THERE is a sense of inevitability about Transport Minister Séamus Brennan's determination to impose toll charges on drivers using the planned motorways linking Dublin with the north, south and the west of the country.

Doubtless, the financial constraints on government will strengthen the arguments in favour of toll roads which operate successfully across the EU.

Like it or not and the political reality is that many people are still opposed to the concept it looks as if toll charges are just around the corner.