Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 373: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in view of the decision to purchase the Westlink Toll Bridge, he will continue with the tolling system on this State owned road; if he has received reports from engineers into the expected effects on traffic flows along the M50 if the toll was removed. [13905/07]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy is aware, the planning, design and implementation of national road improvement projects, including the M50, is a matter for the Nation Roads Authority (NRA) and the local authorities concerned. Also, the statutory power to levy tolls on national roads, to make toll bye-laws and to enter into toll agreements with private investors in respect of national roads, including the M50 is vested in the NRA under Part V of the Roads Act 1993 (as amended by the Planning and Development Act 2000). Traffic management in general is a matter for the appropriate local authority.