M4 is not up to speed

IN your issue of January 17 you quote the M4 Eurolink operations manager as saying they estimate time savings on the motorway of up to an hour on a round trip.

If that was the case, most hauliers would be using it. The fact is that it saves nothing on the Galway run and five minutes on the Longford/Mullingar run.

And we have to buy another tag for €36 - yet in 1999 the NRA committed themselves to universal tagging. We now have a tag for the M1 and M50. How many tags, under current NRA thinking, are we going to end up with - enough to block a driver’s view?

No amount of spin or so-called public consultation from either the NRA or Eurolink will alter the facts. Unlike the M1 toll - which is both cheaper and gives major time gains on a run to, say, Dundalk - this is nothing more than another example of opportunistic money-grabbing in rip-off Ireland. One way or another it will end up coming out of the consumer’s pocket.

Jerry Kiersey

Green Tiger Ltd

Newcastle

Co Dublin