Consumers Rights VS Toll Bridge? lol

cormie

While snailing along on the m50 today I just thought to myself, would we have a case of not paying the toll cost as we did not get the service advertised (a motorway, which are defined motorways by their speed limits etc) the speed being the issue of course:D

Just a thought...

Our man in Havana

What would they do if you refused to pay?

MercMad

Bond-007 wrote:

What would they do if you refused to pay?

...........they would refuse to lift the barrier !!

Then approximately 2 minutes later you would be killed by an irate delivery van driver who was fed up being held up on the M50 !!

C_Breeze

wat if we all refused to pay ? ..one day .. one day

spockety

cormie wrote:

While snailing along on the m50 today I just thought to myself, would we have a case of not paying the toll cost as we did not get the service advertised (a motorway, which are defined motorways by their speed limits etc) the speed being the issue of course:D

Just a thought...

Um, you are paying for the bridge, not the motorway.

So unless you find yourself with liffey water pouring in your windows, you're getting the advertised service.

C_Breeze

spockety wrote:

Um, you are paying for the bridge, not the motorway.

So unless you find yourself with liffey water pouring in your windows, you're getting the advertised service.

I thought by now the toll money has paid the costs of the bridge ten times over?

Seth Brundle

Thats true C_Breeze but its also irrelevant as its owned by a private company (unless the government deal has been finalised).
The government have passed/will pass a law making it an offence to not pay.

seamus

Motorways aren't defined by their speed limits. Motorways are defined by the characteristics that make then suitable for high-speed traffic, i.e. No junctions, multiple lanes, separated carraigeways.

Gregor Samsa

seamus wrote:

Motorways aren't defined by their speed limits. Motorways are defined by the characteristics that make then suitable for high-speed traffic, i.e. No junctions, multiple lanes, separated carraigeways.

Is a bottleneck toll bridge one of those characteristics?

Our man in Havana

kbannon wrote:

Thats true C_Breeze but its also irrelevant as its owned by a private company (unless the government deal has been finalised).
The government have passed/will pass a law making it an offence to not pay.

AFAIK there is no law in place to deal with non payers.

Seth Brundle

Then its in the pipeline

testicle

cormie wrote:

While snailing along on the m50 today I just thought to myself, would we have a case of not paying the toll cost as we did not get the service advertised (a motorway, which are defined motorways by their speed limits etc) the speed being the issue of course:D

Just a thought...

It's a maximum speed limit, not a speed target.

lostexpectation

set up a rival car ferry over the river...

Our man in Havana

lostexpectation wrote:

set up a rival car ferry over the river...

From where to where? How would you access it? NTR would probably get you closed down for impeding on their monoply.

endplate

Bond-007 wrote:

From where to where? How would you access it? NTR would probably get you closed down for impeding on their monoply.

I think you need to get out more. I'd safely say he's only joking

mikemac

C_Breeze wrote:

wat if we all refused to pay ? ..one day .. one day

If this was France a blockade would have been done years ago.
They know how to protest, we Irish don't

dingding

lostexpectation wrote:

set up a rival car ferry over the river...

The have the license for the river crossing, so there is no alternative, a sweet deal for the toll road company.

Saruman

To be honest i find it almost as quick and a lot less hassle to not use the toll bridge and use the older ways to cross the liffey.
I have not used it in years!

The toll bridge was supposed to be finished after 10 years. I was there at the opening day and walked across it. However big business won out and in the end the justification to keep it going was build another one beside it to fix the problems the original caused.. and make the bottleneck even worse.

The tax man

Bond-007 wrote:

What would they do if you refused to pay?

I've seen it happen before. Some gobshíte in a jeep having some heated argument with the person in the booth. Barrier stayed down,she got on the phone to the command centre:D, chap comes out in high viz jacket and sticks 2 or 3 cones right behind the jeep and then tells the rest of us behind to pick another lane. His jeep wasn't broken down or anything cause he kept edging towards the barrier as if to drive through it. Would've liked to stay in the queue to see how things turned out but at least I got thru for 1.90 instead of 3.30.:D

cormie

testicle wrote:

It's a maximum speed limit, not a speed target.

Yeah, kinda like the way they advertise 3 broadband at "speeds of up to 3.6mbps" when the average you actually get is about 30kbps:(