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MEASURES TO TACKLE tailgating on the M50 have driven down instances of the practice by 83 per cent over the past five months.
Figures from eFlow show that since it has introduced rear facing cameras on the motorway instances of tailgating – an act whereby motorists drive within inches of HGVs in an attempt to hide their licence plate number from overhead toll cameras – have fallen by over 10,000 since February.
In March, eFlow introduced new cameras which capture the rear licence plate number of all vehicles passing through its barrier-free toll as well as the front plates, making it harder to avoid paying the toll of €3.
By May instances of tailgating had fallen by 65 per cent.
“Tailgating is dangerous and senseless. eFlow continues to work with the Gardaí to stop this dangerous practice,” a spokesperson for eFlow added.
Over 100,000 vehicles use the free flow system on the M50 in Dublin every day, according to eFlow.
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“Tailgating is dangerous and senseless. eFlow continues to work with the Gardaí to stop this dangerous practice,” a spokesperson for eFlow added.
eFlow crooks don’t give a flying fcuk about safety, it’s all about getting those extra €3s they were missing out on.
How can you come to that conclusion? Everyone knows the toll so why would you put your life and the lives of others at risk by dangerous driving?
It used to work. All the juicy money they lost out on robbing people blind.. Now they rob them from behind. Poetry in motion.
tolls are way too expensive anyway
Slow news day?
TAILGATING? SURE THERES FEK ALL CARS ON IT ANYMORE!!!
We are the only country in Europe with a toll bridge on a ring road! If we bend any further we will be able to lick the floor!!
M25 and the Dartford Crossing is one European Capital with a toll bridge on its ring road, I’m sure there are others.
But the m50 tolls now go into the governments coffers. So surely it’s better that less vehicles are not paying the toll???
Dont forget Ntr still get 50m per year for the next decade of our money from the State, thanks to the mugs in the ff and the nra not being able to negotiate.
Sure by the end of 2012 we will be paying tolls for every road we use as per goverment.
M50 toll is still bad, but still nothing compared to port tunnel rip off, 10 euros one pass in the morning. Joke.
Count your blessings you don’t have to drive around Calgary, AB, Canada. Following too close is the norm, not the exception, obeying speed limits and using indicators appropriately are looked upon as signs of weakness, and they assume telepathy is a reality.
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