Showing posts with label road planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label road planning. Show all posts
Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Snail blamed for delays to Cork-Kerry road plan

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IT WAS most unfair that a Kerry snail was being blamed for holding up a major road into the county from Cork, a council meeting in Tralee ha...
Friday, 14 August 2009

Underwater tunnel highway set to open for traffic next year

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The massive tunnel highway being built under the Shannon near Limerick city is ahead of schedule and likely to be open for traffic by Septem...
Monday, 25 May 2009

New motorway section for Co Cork

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A new stretch of motorway linking Fermoy and Mitchelstown in Co Cork has opened this afternoon. The motorway which cost €174 million involve...
Sunday, 17 May 2009

Safety fears as pitstops shelved

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Long-awaited plans to build fully-equipped service stations on the country's motorways have fallen victim to government cuts, despite on...
Tuesday, 24 March 2009

Government halts up to 80 major road schemes

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THE GOVERNMENT has ordered a halt to planned spending on almost 80 national road-building schemes, worth billions of euro, until further not...
Friday, 20 March 2009

€35m Midleton road boasts top pedestrian safety features

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THE visually-impaired and those with mobility problems should find Ireland’s newest road the safest to cross. The €35 million northern relie...
Thursday, 8 January 2009

Route options for motorway

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Route Option One (€3.95bn at 2015 prices): 2.5km viaduct, nine metres above the ground, across Dublin Port, tunnel under Dublin Bay, viaduct...
Sunday, 19 October 2008

NRA may freeze all new road projects for four years

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The National Roads Authority (NRA) may not start any new road projects until 2011 or 2012 because of financial constraints. The Sunday Busin...
Monday, 5 May 2008

Galway city bypass under threat

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CONCERNS for the survival of a rare plant growing in a local bog could scupper plans to finally build the Galway city outer bypass, a projec...
Sunday, 23 March 2008

Controversial firm Gama lost €45m building Ennis bypass

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A CONSTRUCTION firm accused of exploiting migrant workers in Ireland lost up to €45 million on building a major roadway after underestimatin...
Friday, 1 June 2007

Garda pulls speaker from road safety conference

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Garda authorities have withdrawn a speaker from a road engineering conference after he said that the condition of the roads was a significan...
Tuesday, 8 May 2007

Snails to delay road building

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KERRY slugs and Cork landowners could together slow the progress of a major new road project in the north of the county to a snail’s pace. Y...
Thursday, 1 February 2007

Why are Irish roads car parks?

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ANSWER: BECAUSE THERE ARE 2.3 MILLION VEHICLES ON IRISH ROADS The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Mr. Dick Roch...
Thursday, 30 November 2006

Operation Freeflow - helping?

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The Operation Freeflow website is worth a look: It says: With so many public transport choices this Christmas, there'll be no ...