CelloPoint said:
Aren't there plans to install 6 more toll plazas on the national road network? We'll never learn.
Yet again, someone falling into the Shane Ross/Eamon Dunphy trap of believing that the toll bridge is the cause of congestion on the M50. Why is it that people believe a former economist and a former footballer (neither of whom probably use the M50 at peak times when there's the real problems) than to examine the problems logically for themselves.
If anyone has used the toll plazas on the M1 and M4, you'll see no congestion there at all in and around the toll plazas.
The problem on the M50 is huge amounts of traffic hindered by poor road planning and junction management at each junction. If you remove the toll plaza, that will do nothing for the congestion on the M50. The causes of the problems, the junctions, are all still there.
The M1/M50 roundabout will still be the same. The Naas road exit will still cause backlogs. The Tallaght/Ballymount exits will still see congestion and backlogs. The Leopardstown exit will still see large backlogs of traffic heading into Sandyford.
These are all major problem areas on the M50, and none of them are caused by the toll bridge.
If people fall for Berties sleight of hand here... sorry,
when people fall for it, it'll be yet another sorry electoral day for this country. But by then, the country will be €600m or whatever poorer, we'll still have traffic problems on the M50, but Bertie and co will be back in power, and won't care a jot.