Atlantic Corridor
The Atlantic corridor[1] or Atlantic motorway[2] is a proposed road project in Ireland. The scheme, announced in 2005, was intended to link Waterford in the South-East to Letterkenny in the North-West via motorway or dual carriageway by 2015.[3] However, in part due to the post-2008 Irish economic downturn, major sections of the roadway were delayed or cancelled.
The Atlantic Corridor, when combined with the inter-urban motorways linking Dublin and the other cities, is intended to ring the island of Ireland and to connect primary population centres.[citation needed]
National primary roads
[edit | edit source]The constituent national primary routes, included in the 2007 plan, included:
- N15 linking Letterkenny and Sligo
- N17 linking Sligo and Galway
- N18 linking Galway, Ennis and Limerick (including the Limerick Tunnel project)
- N20 linking Limerick and Cork
- N25 linking Cork and Waterford
Progress
[edit | edit source]As of 2018, over 100 km (62 mi) of the route was completed motorway or dual carriageway.[citation needed] At that time, the next construction planned was the M20 from Cork to Limerick, which was allocated €850 million in government funds under the National Development Plan 2018-2027 capital scheme. The M20, which was "progressed through planning and design phases" as of 2010,[4] is proposed to 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.[citation needed]
Completed sections
[edit | edit source]- N4 Colloney to Sligo
- N15 Ballyshannon/Bundoran bypass
- N4 Sligo inner relief road
- N17 Tuam bypass
- M17 Galway to Tuam
- M18 Limerick to Galway
- M20 Limerick to Patrickswell
- N20 Blarney to Cork
- N25 Waterford City Bypass
- N25 Cork to Midleton
Proposed developments
[edit | edit source]- N25 Carrigtwohill to Midleton road - construction rescheduled[citation needed]
- M20 Patrickswell to Blarney - planning stage (as of 2020)[5]
See also
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Atlantic Corridor as part of the Transport 21 website (archived 2008)