Private road tolls are like Klondike gold

I AM willing to pay a toll to use a motorway network. But I am not so willing to pay many tolls on a start/stop basis on a start/stop network of intermittent dual carriageways connected by pothole-ridden boreens.

I can accept that the completion of our motorway network is predicated on funding raised through tolls. I cannot accept that funds raised by tolls are not ringfenced to build and maintain roads.

The M50 has already yielded tolls many times over the building costs and still there’s no immediate end in sight.