One way tolling

veryangryman

Anyone wonder if this would work in Ireland? A lot of it exists in the states and some in UK. Good for the environment and theoretically if one way toll was doubled then would make same money with half the costs in staffing and maintaining the toll booths.

Yes toll dodging would happen but I mean for selective places where people more than likely wont do use old road. M6 M7 M8 M1. M50 not needed since barrier free tolls already exist . Opinions?

L1011

In most places its done to reduce delays in one direction rather than save staff costs. That we have an extremely widely used transponder system that works everywhere means that delays really don't exist here.

The eToll system is one case where we're ahead of virtually everywhere else in the world - most countries with toll roads have a patchwork system of transponders if anything at all.

The other reason it turns up occasionally in the UK, two authorities running the one bridge with different funding mechanisms, isn't going to apply here with every route controlled by one agency.

Jamie2k9

Nobody would benefit apart from toll operators who would have less operating costs. Take the M4 in wales around £6 going westbound but nothing eastbound. If it was £3 each way the operator would have less profits...

If its about easing traffic then a system like the barrier free tolling on the M50 could be adopted around Ireland.