{"id":271718,"date":"2026-01-07T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/271718\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:40:08","slug":"ministers-defend-m50-toll-hike-despite-mounting-criticism-it-is-no-longer-fit-for-purpose-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/271718\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers defend M50 toll hike despite mounting criticism it is no longer fit for purpose – The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Ministers defend M50 toll hike despite mounting criticism it is no longer fit for purpose<\/a>  The Journal<\/li>\n
  2. Number of crashes increases on \u2018maxed-out\u2019 M50 motorway, as transport authority issues capacity warning<\/a>  The Irish Independent<\/li>\n
  3. Listen Back: Local senator hits out at cost of toll charges<\/a>  NorthernSound<\/li>\n
  4. Tipperary county councillor hits out at imposition of new toll charges<\/a>  Tipperary Live<\/li>\n
  5. Commuters frustrated as toll hikes come into effect<\/a>  FM104<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ministers defend M50 toll hike despite mounting criticism it is no longer fit for purpose  The Journal Number of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,138315,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,90928,15,16,5,7193,138316,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-271718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-commuter-nightmare","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-m50","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-roads","24":"tag-toll-hikes","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115852451756092872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}