Should we remove tolling booths from all tolled roads?
From The Hard Shoulder by Newstalk
April 23, 2026 · 9 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the potential removal of tolling booths from tolled roads, highlighting their outdated nature and negative impacts on traffic and the environment.
Should we remove tolling booths from all tolled roads? My next guests things so and says it is "archaic" that trucks, buses, and cars are still being forced to stop, queue, and pay at toll booths. That’s according to Fianna Fail MEP for Ireland South, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú. The EU Transport Committee MEP said Ireland is behind its EU counterparts who have free-flow tolling systems and describes toll booths as outdated concepts that cause traffic delays, minor accidents, millions of euros in wasted diesel and millions of tonnes of carbon emissions. Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Fianna Fail MEP for Ireland South and member of the European Transport Committee joined Shane Coleman on the show to discuss.
People in this episode
Host: Shane Coleman
Guest: Cynthia Ní Mhurchú
Topics covered
- tolling booths
- transportation
- traffic
- environment
Keywords
- EU Transport Committee
- free-flow tolling
- traffic delays
- carbon emissions
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Ireland
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