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  • #52
    MaceFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭MaceFace


    NewDubliner wrote: »
    Why should we take the risk at all? We'd have to borrow money, manage the contracts, deal with local interests, try not to get ripped off by cost over-runs. Then, there'd be an outcry if the government tolled it.

    If it's a good business proposition, let the private sector build it.

    The state should get out of the road-building business.

    Why would the private sector build a road (unless they own it and toll it accordingly).
    I can just imagine - drive onto road A, stop, pay a toll, take a right, stop pay a toll, stop at some lights, stop pay a toll to continue to the new road.

    Sounds lovely.


  • #53
    Danno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Who has the money to pay these tolls?


  • #54
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    MaceFace wrote: »
    Why would the private sector build a road (unless they own it and toll it accordingly).
    I can just imagine - drive onto road A, stop, pay a toll, take a right, stop pay a toll, stop at some lights, stop pay a toll to continue to the new road.

    Sounds lovely.

    I agree.

    Private roads just don't work. You can't have competition so its a monopoly. Are we going to regulate it? Its worked out well for us in the past :pac:


  • #55
    NewDubliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭NewDubliner


    Danno wrote: »
    Who has the money to pay these tolls?
    Who has the money to build those roads?


  • #56
    Diarmuid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    thebman wrote: »
    Private roads just don't work.
    You'd better tell the French that it's not working for them.


  • #57
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Diarmuid wrote: »
    You'd better tell the French that it's not working for them.

    :rolleyes: That isn't all I posted.


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