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Put tolls on all roads to NI

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  • 09-12-2009 4:09pm
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    Rujib1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 369 ✭✭


    I suggest Garlic should bring in tolls on all roads to and from NI.
    Collect nice stream of revenue from the public servants on their many days off.

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    Idbatterim
    Registered Users Posts: 17,853 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    putting a toll about 1km from the border on all roades might be a better idea!


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    bauderline
    Registered Users Posts: 898 ✭✭✭bauderline


    ... and would you personally volunteer to man the toll booth at hackballscross ?


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    muboop1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭muboop1


    Rujib1 wrote: »
    I suggest Garlic should bring in tolls on all roads to and from NI.
    Collect nice stream of revenue from the public servants on their many days off.

    R1

    Whilst i agree with the idea of putting a toll there, the way you directed it specifically towards the public sector is quite... well i wont go into it.

    Good idea, terribly presented with a bit of venom thrown in.
    On another point, what type of charge could you out on such a toll?


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    Dublin_Gunner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    muboop1 wrote: »
    Whilst i agree with the idea of putting a toll there, the way you directed it specifically towards the public sector is quite... well i wont go into it.

    Good idea, terribly presented with a bit of venom thrown in.
    On another point, what type of charge could you out on such a toll?

    21% on whatever you bring back :D


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    jackthekipper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭jackthekipper


    Rujib1 wrote: »
    I suggest Garlic should bring in tolls on all roads to and from NI.
    Collect nice stream of revenue from the public servants on their many days off.

    R1

    How many child mole . . , sorry Public Servants will be going up shopping and how many times? How much revenue do you expect to collect, how much will it cost to run the booth (privately owned or will they be government owned and staffed by public Servants)? What about non PS workers going to shop, should we PS workers be made were a badge to distinguish them?


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    gurramok
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    Will the tolls be removed to encourage nordies to buy petrol/diesel down here or to encourage nordie tourism?

    Perhaps we should discriminate and just charge the non-yellow reg cars, maybe call it a patriotic tax. :D


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    Dublin_Gunner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    gurramok wrote: »
    Will the tolls be removed to encourage nordies to buy petrol/diesel down here or to encourage nordie tourism?

    Perhaps we should discriminate and just charge the non-yellow reg cars, maybe call it a patriotic tax. :D

    At first glance, I thought you said 'nudies' lol
    jackthekipper wrote: »
    What about non PS workers going to shop, should we PS workers be made were a badge to distinguish them?

    Maybe something like a star, easy recognisable...


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    Kalashnikov_Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Kalashnikov_Kid


    The most stupid idea I've heard on Boards yet - well done. Just because it's now fashionable for people living miles away (many for the first time ever) to travel up North, does that means we should tax the border communities - dividing people more and making an even bigger hindrance to trade?

    Of course this trend won't last forever and for many years it was Northerners coming down here in droves for shopping and petrol. I imagine it would also cost millions to implement. It would be incredibly sshort-sighted and also 100% regressive and won't just target the sector the OP obviously despises.

    Oh and there's already a toll 30 miles down the M1.


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    Rujib1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 369 ✭✭Rujib1


    muboop1 wrote: »
    Whilst i agree with the idea of putting a toll there, the way you directed it specifically towards the public sector is quite... well i wont go into it.

    Good idea, terribly presented with a bit of venom thrown in.
    On another point, what type of charge could you out on such a toll?

    Oh, forget about the PS comment. I'm just one of those people who had to lay off a good few staff due to economic downturn. Consequently the wailing and bawling from permanent pensionable employees gets on my goat.

    Anyway ....... how much of a toll? Firstly I was just thinking a bit outside the box on how the government could get revenue from those who have the time and inclination to spend the money earned in this state in another state to the degree that they now do.
    You would have to avoid penalizing people living on the border and needing to cross on a regular basis to do basic work and duties.
    But booze and shopping tourists should be hit. How about €10.
    Just toll the main roads. Traffic backup on smaller roads by those avoiding the tolls, would probably mean they would not be home on time to watch the Simpsons, so they would probably just toddle down to their local Aldi or the likes.


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    granturismo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭granturismo


    Dublin_Gunner wrote: »
    ..Maybe something like a star, easy recognisable...

    Or

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    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    jackthekipper wrote: »
    How many child mole . . , sorry Public Servants will be going up shopping and how many times? How much revenue do you expect to collect, how much will it cost to run the booth (privately owned or will they be government owned and staffed by public Servants)? What about non PS workers going to shop, should we PS workers be made were a badge to distinguish them?
    Yes, it'll be a star of some sort, colour to be decided later. Maybe yellow.
    (edit, I see we've already gone there)


    Dealing with the thread as a serious suggestion, completely unworkable idea, even in its own universe I'm afraid.

    And it's not as though there isn't already a toll on the M1, which is probably the most used route anyway.

    I think we all know this thread has a limited lifespan so if people didn't get all that miffed about it, that'd be cool.


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    Dublin_Gunner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    Rujib1 wrote: »
    ..would probably just toddle down to their local Aldi or the likes.


    And send the money outside of the country anyway???


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    muboop1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭muboop1


    Dublin_Gunner wrote: »
    And send the money outside of the country anyway???

    Thats fine if they keep the taxes in the country imo...
    So what we should only shop in irish companies in irish stores... Me... personally I do not care.

    The are working here, providing jobs, paying taxes. If they offer me better offers then an irish owned company. The irish company better get it's ass in gear and get competitive...

    Kinda like our country really...


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    danman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭danman


    A very stupid idea.

    I live 3 miles from the border in Donegal.
    You want me to pay 2 tolls either side of the border when I travel to Dublin, then another 2 on the way back? Your a cleaver chap.


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    jackthekipper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭jackthekipper


    granturismo wrote: »
    Or

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    Won't be enough to go around when the latest scape goats come up.


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    goose2002
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭goose2002


    Rujib1 wrote: »
    I suggest Garlic should bring in tolls on all roads to and from NI.
    Collect nice stream of revenue from the public servants on their many days off.

    R1

    Its funny a couple of Fridays ago I got stuck for 2 hours and 20 mins going through Newry in a traffic jam that started at the border. There was no public service strike that day and yet I didn't hear anybody complain on the radio about it that day. Rujib sounds like a bitter bitter man :rolleyes:


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    #18
    Mr.Micro
    Registered Users Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭Mr.Micro


    Rujib1 wrote: »
    I suggest Garlic should bring in tolls on all roads to and from NI.
    Collect nice stream of revenue from the public servants on their many days off.

    R1

    Is that an Irish solution to an Irish problem.? Why not stop the internet as well so that we can only buy in Ireland at rip off prices. Dream on.


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    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users Posts: 14,339 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    danman wrote: »
    A very stupid idea.

    I live 3 miles from the border in Donegal.
    You want me to pay 2 tolls either side of the border when I travel to Dublin, then another 2 on the way back? Your a cleaver chap.

    Yes - I too would relish my weekly journey from Donegal to Dublin with tolls at Lifford, EmyVale, Drogheda and Westlink.


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