Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Mr. Pat Maher:
If you remove the barriers, then you do not have the same capacity to control access in and out of the tunnel. The point I was coming to is that we are in the process of developing an upgraded tolling system. We will be going out over the next year to 18 months, and we will be changing the system. We are happy that it will significantly reduce the degree to which trucks exiting Dublin Port will be subject to stopping at the barrier. It is a more modern and more responsive system. We will be looking to include, insofar as we can, some of the elements that are familiar from the M50. However, we will be retaining barrier control going into the tunnel.
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