{"id":418731,"date":"2026-04-26T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418731\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:16:08","slug":"ireland-south-mep-describes-countrys-toll-barriers-as-archaic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418731\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland South MEP describes country&#8217;s toll barriers as \u2018archaic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ireland South MEP has described the toll barriers on the country\u2019s roads as \u2018archaic\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/cynthia-ni-mhurchu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MEP Cynthia N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa<\/a> has called for the booths to be replaced with a free-flowing system, which is currently only on the M50.<\/p>\n<p>She has strongly criticised the need for vehicles to queue at toll booths every day.<\/p>\n<p>The Transport Committee MEP said forcing traffic to stop is wasting fuel, causing delays, and resulting in minor accidents.<\/p>\n<p>She says Ireland is far behind its EU counterparts, who are moving towards a free-flowing toll system.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ireland South MEP has described the toll barriers on the country\u2019s roads as \u2018archaic\u2019. MEP Cynthia N\u00ed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,183375],"class_list":{"0":"post-418731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-toll-barriers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}