AA Slams Toll Roads Billion Pound Plunder |
Unjustified Tax on Road UseThe AA has denounced the National Roads Authority’s toll-road proposals as a ‘billion pound blunder’. The NRA announced today that £1 billion raised from the private sector to be invested in roads is to be repaid by the imposition of tolls across large sections of the primary road network. This means that ordinary road users will face toll charges right across the country on roads built under the National Development Plan. “This is blinkered thinking at is worst.” Says public affairs manager Conor Faughnan. “It is a new and unjustified tax on road use. It is also environmentally daft because the imposition of tolls will divert traffic off the new by-passes and back onto the streets of the towns and villages that we are supposed to be relieving.” |
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