Road tolls should be scrapped

I AM confused by the Government decision to scrap plans to install a toll on the M2 motorway which will run alongside the present N2 route in Co Meath and will be the main Monaghan road to Dublin.

This is very welcome news for Monaghan people and I do not begrudge them their good fortune. It is particularly good news for those who commute to work in Dublin. However, it highlights the Government’s total inconsistency when it comes to its policy on tolling. It now has three different tolling policies for major motorway projects servicing the north-east, and indeed Cavan/Monaghan.

We are now faced with the bemusing situation whereby Monaghan people who choose to use the M1 bypassing Drogheda are charged one toll while those in Cavan who travel to work in Dublin via the new M3 will face two tolls, a double cost which has no precedent in Ireland and heavily discriminates against Cavan people.