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Toll on N7/M7

  • 04-07-2010 5:06pm
    #1
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,810 ✭✭✭


    Hi.
    Not sure if this is the right forum but why is the M7 being tolled when it's unfinished.
    Having not travelled that way in a while i didn't expect the toll bridge, and thought to myself "ah crap a toll, but at least it means the road will be great until Limerick".
    Of course it's anything but.
    Can anyone explain this.


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  • #2
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,186 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Because only a small section of it is tolled, and that is entirely complete. The rest of the road is and will remain toll free.


  • #3
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,810 ✭✭✭take everything


    MYOB wrote: »
    Because only a small section of it is tolled, and that is entirely complete. The rest of the road is and will remain toll free.

    Should the toll relate to the complete M7.
    Sorry, i'm not that familiar with the public-private stuff and how exactly tolls are incurred on this basis- i was just wondering why a short section (of completed road) is tolled when the adjacent part of the interurban route is unfinished.
    What does the M7 toll actually relate to?
    Is it related to construction of the M8. :confused:
    Apologies for my confusion.


  • #4
    Ham'nd'egger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭Ham'nd'egger


    take everything wrote: »
    Should the toll relate to the complete M7.
    Sorry, i'm not that familiar with the public-private stuff and how exactly tolls are incurred on this basis- i was just wondering why a short section (of completed road) is tolled when the adjacent part of the interurban route is unfinished.
    What does the M7 toll actually relate to?
    Is it related to construction of the M8. :confused:
    Apologies for my confusion.

    The deal generally is that the private company will construct and/or maintain a specified section of a route with a toll being charged on an agreed section. For example on the M 1, the toll is charged if you pass over the Boyne Bridge.


  • #5
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    take everything wrote: »
    Should the toll relate to the complete M7.
    Sorry, i'm not that familiar with the public-private stuff and how exactly tolls are incurred on this basis- i was just wondering why a short section (of completed road) is tolled when the adjacent part of the interurban route is unfinished.
    What does the M7 toll actually relate to?
    Is it related to construction of the M8. :confused:
    Apologies for my confusion.

    The M7 will by December stretch from Limerick City to Naas, but it is being built in individual sections. Most sections are built by the government with public money, and these are untolled. But one section, from Portlaoise to Borris, is tolled because it was built by a private operator. When you pay the toll you are paying to drive on that particular section. The next section, which will untolled, will run from Borris to Nenagh and will open before the end of year, completing the M7.


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