Irish motorists leave €816,000 in cash change sitting at toll booths

Irish motorists have left €816,000 in cash sitting at toll booths by overpaying for their car journey and not taking their change.

The most lucrative road for excess tolls was the M1 motorway, connecting Dublin to Dundalk with €143,000 left at the toll gates by drivers between January 2020 and October 2021. Unpaid tolls on all nine roads totalled €643,000; however, Transport Infrastructure Ireland did not provide a breakdown of which roads were most affected.

In the first 10 months of last year, a total of €111.68 million was collected on the capital’s ring road with bad debt listed as €3.43 million.Transport Infrastructure Ireland said all the other nine roads charging tolls offered at least one booth or lane where change was provided to motorists on a 24/7 basis.

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