Atlantic Corridor

The Atlantic corridor[1] or Atlantic motorway [2] is a road project in Ireland. The scheme announced in 2005 was intended to link Waterford in the South-East to Letterkenny/Derry in the North-West via motorway or dual carriageway by 2015,[3] however due to the Great Recession major sections of the roadway were delayed or cancelled.

Atlantic Corridor in October 2017

The Atlantic Corridor, when combined with the inter-urban motorways linking Dublin and the other cities, will effectively ring the island of Ireland, while at the same time connecting the primary population and economic centres.

National primary roads

The constituent routes are:

Progress

As of 2018, over 100 km (62 mi) of the route is completed motorway or dual carriageway. The next construction planned is the M20 from Cork to Limerick, which has been allocated €850 million in government funds under the National Development Plan 2018-2027 capital scheme. The M20 will link with the planned Cork northern ring road, also forming part of the Atlantic Corridor route, connecting the planned Cork to Limerick motorway with the partially completed Cork-Waterford N25 dual carriageway.

Completed Sections

Future developments

See also

References
  1. Atlantic Corridor Archived 2008-12-16 at the Wayback Machine
  2. No toilet stop provided on 101km ‘Atlantic motorway'
  3. Brian McDonald. "Atlantic Corridor roads plan starts three years early", Irish Independent, 26 January 2007.
  4. Eoin English €1bn Cork-Limerick motorway plan a step closer Irish Examiner, 25 February 2010

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