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[Article]Motorists face new charges as number of toll roads to double

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  • #92
    Wolverine_1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭Wolverine_1999


    Wasn't it on Vincent Browne that it IS going ahead? :confused:

    There will have be resistance to this, not just by the locals but also by drivers who frequent the roads in question. The government is always big on more taxes.. let's increase the intake.

    Do they not see how much they are WASTING which is the serious cause of the issue?


  • #93
    Wolverine_1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭Wolverine_1999


    billyboy01 wrote: »
    Well if Dubliners have to pay to use the M50, why the hell should you Corkers not have to pay to use your tunnel!

    You know as well as everyone else that Dublin has the only decent public transport system in Ireland that even comes anywhere near the efficient and punctual services in the rest of Europe.

    Plus the fact that the fully completed M50 was opened with a toll in place. There wasn't even consideration of this when the tunnel was opened in 1999 in Cork.


  • #94
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    It's all going the way of the 80's.
    More taxes and charges, more people dodging them, lesser and lesser return for higher and higher charges, economy going into a prolonged decline.
    By the time the IT bubble approached I thought "Surely a software company belonging to a 15 year old in his Mommy's basement can't be worth $25 million".
    A few years later I thought "Surely the same mistake won't be made with housing"
    And now I'm thinking "Surely by just taxing people who can't afford it they're just going to depress the economy for years to come"
    I'm always told I'm naive and that it isn't that simple, but for some reason it does seem to be that simple and that people who earn millions and are in charge always have some hugely complicated explanation why common sense doesn't apply to their field of expertise.
    I think we should put a few 6 year olds in charge, they can't fudge it up any worse.
    And monkeys in charge of the banks, they are proven to do better than "experts" who are being paid huge, bloated, fat salaries and bonuses.
    Proof here:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1242575/Lusha-monkey-outperforms-94-Russia-bankers-investment-portfolio.html

    and here
    http://manualofideas.com/blog/2009/04/post_3.html

    There won't be more tolls, there will be more tax on petrol, this is just to soften us up for the blow.
    I'm right I know, my monkey told me, E1m and my left nut on that!


  • #95
    Berty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,176 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    I was thinking about this today.

    Surely the government is not going to run the Plazas. Surely they will have to tender out the contract to somebody for a minimum of a number of years and only make money from VAT.

    What's the point then you'd wonder??


  • #96
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    And that's when u thought we can't get fecked more then we are already...

    Will people just stand and watch it being done? **** that, if there will be some sort of road blackings and protest I will join.

    It's fecking too much, govermemt just got so used to bend over us. This has to stop FFs.


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  • #97
    Hogzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    I wouldnt be surprised if some Fianna Fail idiot made up this rumor. `There has been absolutly NO government document or statement on the plan. Therefore IMO its not in the works


  • #98
    Wolverine_1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭Wolverine_1999


    Hogzy wrote: »
    I wouldnt be surprised if some Fianna Fail idiot made up this rumor. `There has been absolutly NO government document or statement on the plan. Therefore IMO its not in the works

    Let's just hope that none of these idiots ideas are actually taken on by the Government..


  • #99
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Hogzy wrote: »
    I wouldnt be surprised if some Fianna Fail idiot made up this rumor. `There has been absolutly NO government document or statement on the plan. Therefore IMO its not in the works

    Your word in God's ear.
    What would happen is that quite a few people would take backroads and go through towns.
    This will lead to higher congestion and more deaths on the roads. Plus, all those new, shiny motorways would be a lot emptier, but backroads would get an awful hammering and therefore need a lot more maintenance.
    Or maybe the government won't care, only count the money rolling in and let all roads other than motorways go to complete sh*t, while lowering all speedlimits on them and have a speedcamera around every corner.
    It's the government, you cannot put anything past them.
    Not just Ireland, this happens everywhere.


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