Five or more axles banned from Dublin city centre
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Driving a top-weight artic into the centre of Dublin could cost you €1,500 and a spell behind bars. Chris Tindall reports.
LGVs WITH five axles or more will be fined up to €1.500 (990) and drivers could be jailed if they try to enter Dublin city centre without a permit.
The cordon, which comes into force on 19 February, is intended to make the city more accessible to pedestrians, cyclists, public transport and other motorists, according to the city council's traffic director Michael Phillips.
As a result LGVs will be forced to use the Dublin Port Tunnel to reach the port. However,a online permit scheme" will allow some trucks that currently load or unload within the cordon to continue to do so. Phillips explains: "The permit scheme is designed to facilitate the transition to minimal use of deliveries by five-plus-axle vehicles within the city cordon.
The Irish Road Haulage Association describes the scheme as -cumbersome", but its spokesman accepts it could have been worse: "We had some input into the consultation.
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