Road tolls rip-off should be challenged

ROAD improvement costs were estimated at €1.7 billion last year, but the income from motor taxation was more than twice that, at €3.8 billion.

Why then do we need road tolls? Why are politicians and other vested interests calling for the M3 to be built immediately without any mention of the punitive double tolling of the route which has no precedent on this island?

A Cavan motorist travelling to Dublin and back will have to stop at tolling stations four times and pay approximately €11 in total - the likely price of a return trip when toll inflation and the construction time of the M3 are taken into account.