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Wednesday 31 May 2023 Dublin: 14°C

# Road Tolls

All time
# New Jersey
Man pretends to be his brother to avoid €7k in tolls, gets busted with cocaine
His plan didn’t work out.
# Read my lips
Varadkar says no new tolls on Irish roads
The Transport Minister has said that proposals to impose new tolls on roads in Ireland have been scrapped.
# Road Tolls
Toll-fare hike for motorists
Motorists will face toll rate increases on two of the country’s busiest roads, while charges for trucks will increase on all motorways.
# Road Tolls
Road tolls set to rise 10c in new year
Some M50 tolls will be raised, with charges on other motorways also likely to increase.
# Roads
Drivers face new tolls as NRA seeks to raise money
The authority has suggested new pay stations on eight existing roads, as well as an extension of tolling on the M50.
# Daily Fix
The Daily Fix: Friday
In today’s Fix: The pictures that paint a thousand words in the Japanese disaster; Gaddafi stays classy; the HSE draws complaints on itself; the bell tolls for… er… tolls; and the mischevious wit of (Not) Cardinal Brady.
# Road Tolls
M1 toll to drop from midnight after court ruling
Motorists have been overcharged to the tune of €26,000 per week since the start of the year on that stretch.
# Courts
Tolling company fights overcharging claims
The NRA says that Celtic Roads Group (Dundalk) Ltd has failed to reduce prices in line with inflation – but the company says it had a reasonable expectation that charges would never be revised downwards.
# China
Chinese man sentenced to life for avoiding road tolls
Court in Henan Province said today it would hold a retrial following public outcry over the man’s harsh sentence and heavy fine.