Seanad debates
Wednesday, 15 October 2003
Public Transport: Motion.
Senator O'Toole, myself and others discussed this matter in the Committee on Finance and the Public Service and the aspect that would make the biggest difference to Dublin transport currently in that area would be if we were to buy out national toll roads, remove the toll booths and so on. It is not good transport policy to have tolls on the periphery of cites. Paris has tolls on the cross-country routes but they do not have them in the city. We should give serious consideration to putting electronic tolling in place fairly quickly. If we have €200 million to spend on one area, that might make a bigger contribution than stilts, graded separations, spaghetti junctions or whatever are the different options.
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