Who will take on the road tolls monopoly?

YOUR correspondent Marie Ahern (Irish Examiner letters, December 17) wonders if she is the only person who is outraged at the increase in toll charges.

Sat, 15 Jan, 2005 - 00:00

I am sorry to say that, apart from myself, she probably is. What did I do? I wrote to the then Transport Minister Seamus Brennan who was hell-bent on breaking up Bus Éireann’s monopoly.

I pointed out to him that he was presiding over and supporting the biggest monopoly of all, namely road tolls, a never-ending, ever-increasing source of income for the Government and private investors.

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