Madam, - Users of the West-Link Bridge are furious at the 20 per cent increase in toll charges. At the same time they feel helpless.
Mr Jim Barry of National Toll Roads informs us that "the price is what the Government and the National Roads Authority determines it to be" (The Irish Times, December 20th).
Now Mr Michael Egan of the National Roads Authority (January 6th) tells us that this is not true as "the level of the tolls to be charged rests solely with National Toll Roads".
We are also informed by Mr Egan that the "1987 West Link Toll Agreement" between NTR and Dublin County Council, provides that tolls can be increased annually in line with inflation.
It would now appear that NTR unilaterally increased the toll by about eight times the inflation rate, in what seems to be a breach of the 1987 Agreement.
Can it get away with this? Who is in charge? - Yours, etc.,
JOHN EARLY, Celbridge Road, Leixlip, Co Kildare.