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COUNCILS IN LIMERICK and Cork have been briefed on a plan to upgrade the N20 road that connects the two cities to a dual carriage motorway, with the project to be submitted for Government approval next year.
The plan for will be submitted by Limerick City and County councils on behalf of their Cork counterparts, with the road set to be renamed the M20.
Limerick City and County Councils describe the project as “unique in Irish terms” and “highly innovative”.
The speed limit will be 120km/hr, which combined with the extra lanes will reduce travel times by 30 minutes, the Councils said.
Describing it as “the largest single active travel project to be undertaken in Ireland”, the Councils said the project will provide up to 100 km of “safe, shared active travel pathways”.
These will encourage walking and cycling to work, school, and for leisure, “linking communities, promoting healthier lifestyles, and reducing transport emissions”, they said.
The plan will see transport hubs at Rathduff, Mourneabbey, Mallow, Buttevant, Charleville, Bruree and Croom, featuring park and ride facilities for public transport, park and share spaces, charging points for electric vehicles. The hubs will also be connected to local communities with a new “active travel network”.
Separately, a hub for freight vehicles is also planned for Mallow.
The team overseeing the project has also recommended “demand management measures”, such as the introduction of barrier free tolling based on the length of a journey along the almost 100 km long stretch of road.
The details of possible toll payment levels are still being worked out, the Councils said.
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Looking forward to seeing this completed in 2062.
@Stephen Heffernan: …by B*M…at 145% price increase
@Stephen Heffernan: You got your figures mixed up there, Stephen . It should read 2602!!
@Stephen Heffernan: be more like 2424 if bam get the contract
@Seamus Moynihan: Don’t worry about the price. The toll will be paid for centuries.
@Tony Skillington: BAM! And your money’s gone.
@Stephen Heffernan: Don’t forget the road will be by the time it’s complete not only over budget and late it will.also be an M50esq death trap i.e. too small ….
Get the crew that did the Macroom bypass. Completed ahead of schedule and a lovely bit of road to drive.
@honey badger: Also within budget I believe. A real top class job.
Cavan to St James Hosp = 4x 1.70 + 2x 3.70 = 14.10 in tolls alone. God help the parents of a sick child trying to daily attend the new childrens hosp. How much will limerick to cork return be ?????
@Michael James Brennan: That’s cheap.
@Michael James Brennan: Cavan people are to miserable to pay their tolls anyway
@Niall Moore: you are a tool. Not even remotely funny
@Dominic Leleu: it’s true, state of ya
stop the green waffle and just build the road which is need 30 years ago
terrible this should be a fast rail link all the way to Shannon airport
no forward thinking again
@Martin Adams: absolutely right Martin. By the way how are the Green Party supporters of this decision. It’s going to nail in another cost of living expense probably on workers, and support the car culture not rail. Not Public access but private excess.
@Martin Adams: Correct language, Irish people are triggered by words like ‘High-Speed’… Fast train more understandable (even if it never happens).
Be interesting to see if BAM get the contract to build it
@Robert Halvey: i find it INCREDIBLE that they built a motorway from Gort to Tuam, but we still wait for one from Cork to Limerick.
It’s a road, we’ve done them before. Whoopdedoo. Any chance of a Metro this century?
@Meh Meh: yes. Dublin needs more. Where is Cork anyway, that’s outside the M50 isn’t it
@Joe Counihan: M20 on the pecking list. Not even M40. Says it all.
@Meh Meh: what’s the M40???
@Liam23: dunno, but better than the M30 and M20?
Why does it take so long to get anything done in this kip?
@Marc Power: It’s the Irish way?
Kind of amazing that their is no motorway between two industrial cities such as cork and Limerick.
@Paddy Ryan: yet they built one from Gort to Tuam. And all around Westport/Castlebar there are new dual carriages. Good man Enda Kenny looking after your own.
@DJ Points: absolutely, the road from cork to Limerick is an absolute joke at the moment.
Something of a joke at this stage.
The details of the toll charges HAVE been announced Journal, it’s going to tolled per distance traveled, not a fixed charge like the current motorways, so it will be very pricey drive from Cork to Limerick.
@Sean Walsh: second last paragraph
@Sean Walsh: it’s probably in their plan to make all major roads with these tolls can u imagine the cost rises in shops ect when lorries use it
@Sean Walsh: At least there will be innovation to their shkelping.
Soooo, can tractors drive safely on motorways or should they stay off them as originally intended? Seems like we now turn a completely blind eye to this dangerous practice these days.
Expect more announcements like this in the next 6 months. The current government have had years and years to ‘fiz’ the country, yet they’ll start announcing major developments and works – all to be commenced after the next election of course.
You can bet Tesco wont be pulling any strokes again after that monster fine nearly broke the company
@Padraic O’ Sullivan: The CCPC claiming credit. It was ‘Which’ in the UK, that highlighted this issue. The CCPC like all regulators in this country, are weak and not fit for purpose.
I guarantee you, that the only thing that they do right, is make sure that they get well paid.
Who are they going to blame for the toll now that the whipping boy has gone?
@Padraig O’Brien: Blame Rhino, he stopped it four years ago, with this scenario in mind.
Finally
We need to get Tuam to Sligo Motorway underway.
The story that has been running on a loop for 40+ years.
Lads, it is to be discussed, not approved…
Would all of the whinging and moaning sheep prefer of the road stayed the way it is?
Costs will be overrun as per normal. Probably won’t help with Larry sitting on the quad bike going back and forth all day with a stop and go plaque.
Dear Government, through taxation you are being payed by us the workers to ensure that proper infrastructure & services are in place, the time it is taking for this is disgraceful & at this stage won’t be in my lifetime.
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