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Tolling & PPP

PPP's not necessarily best choice: the desire to press ahead with PPPs in order to keep large-scale capital investments "off balance sheet" has led to short-cuts being taken in relation to accountability and value-for-money procedures
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A NATIONAL Roads Authority spokesperson Caroline O’Brien said the NRA didn’t expect to receive the Inspector’s report on the oral hearing into the Draft Toll Scheme for the Waterford Bypass before Christmas. Report will be made public.
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Farrell Grant Sparks report on Public Private Partnerships : :" unlikely that any financially free-standing toll projects will be found on the inter-urban network"
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The oral hearing into the Draft Toll Scheme for the N25 Waterford Bypass resumed in Waterford on Wednesday November 7th 2001

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AA calls to Lift Westlink Barriers at Peak Times.  Congestion at Westlink is now so severe that delays can be felt as far south as Red Cow

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Irish Road Haulage Association demand exemption.

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Time has come to reclaim power from corporations 
GATS identifies 160 sectors to be subject to its rules ranging from high-tech telecommunications, health care, education services to refuse collections and would make government actions to keep local and public control over these services illegal

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The upcoming role of the General Agreement on Trades in Services (GATS) and the effect Nice has on future negotiations.  In effect, it is the framework for a global programme of privatisation of public services.

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For whom the road's tolled! At last the the big picture emerges. Thanks to ERT- a high-powered lobby group based in Brussels -  unnecessary motorways are being constructed through greenfield countryside.

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Dan White has some interesting things to say in the Evening Herald about tolling 
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Oral hearing into Waterford Bypass Toll scheme collapses. Indefinite adjournment. 
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National Toll Roads' profits weaken. Company eyes Kinnegad & Waterford opportunities 
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Bypass tolls will create problems, hearing told 
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Authority defends toll-road operators' subsidies 
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Outrage over proposed toll for M4 motorway
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M4 Kinnegad Enfield Kilcock Motorway Oral Hearing
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Motorists may face multiple road charges
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Only 1% of provisional drivers assumed will use M-way
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New motorway will exact heavy toll, inquiry is told
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Skye Bridge Saga
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Skye Bridge Saga continued
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On the rocky road to Dublin - pay on the way, pay when you get there!
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State's first oral hearing on tolls
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Farrell Grant Sparks report findings rejected by Government
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£3,000 a day boost from toll bridges 
From rounding up the price of VAT
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