Government Capital Spending on Roads: 2016-2022

Well the M28 and M21/N69 are from EU funding, so I can't see how they won't be included.

We're also expecting the M11 Enniscorthy, N6 Galway bypass and N25 New Ross bypass to be re-announced conveniently in time for the next election even though they were part of the last roads programme included.

For Cork, Sponge Bob mentioned the Dunkettle Interchange, Cork will have to get something else, hopefully given the recent noises in the Daily Mail the 'something else' will be movement on the M20. I'd also add the Macroom/Ballyvourney bypass to that, it will be a fairly decent road if that is done, it will never justify a motorway like the N20 would but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be a decent road to Tralee and Killarney. I would say longer term there should be a motorway as far as the Macroom bypass, but we'll worry about that at another time, doing Macroom and Ballyvourney would be higher up my priority list given how badly congested Macroom can get (not to mention how dangerous those bends coming into Ballyvourney can be).

As the crowd up in Mayo are complaining that Enda is 'doing nothing' for the county you can be sure Mayo will get something (Enda certainly will not want to be coming second to Michael Ring or anyone else), Westport-Turlough has been mentioned plus Ballaghdereen-Longford, I wouldn't be surprised if both of them got the go ahead, I think once those schemes are done the N5 could be considered to be 'done' as the likes of Charlestown, Swinford and Ballaghdereen have already been bypassed.

Widening schemes for the M7 and M11 near Dublin have been mentioned, but it would be far, far better if money was spent educating motorists on the importance of keeping in the leftmost lane unless overtaking, given Irish motorists' complete and utter inability to drive correctly on three lane carriageways. It's almost as if people deliberately do it wrongly at this stage, if you drive on the correct (leftmost) lane on the N7 you basically have the road to yourself!

joujoujou wrote: »

Which one?

The coming one hopefully;).

I see that the N25 New Ross bypass and M11 Enniscorthy bypass tenders are now good to go, so no doubt they will re-appear in the new announcement.

I suspect we will see an official signing/photo op for both roads closer to the general election but may not actually see any physical construction of these roads until some time next year, like what happened with the M17/M18 last year when the ceremony was held before the locals but nothing happened until the start of this year.

Delighted the M28 and Macroom have made it, at last there will be a half decent road to Kerry from Cork! The only really bad bit left will be Macroom-Ballincollig.

The M28 is great news as it was doubtful earlier on this summer if it was going to make it. Dunkettle is as we expected.

I presume the Galway bypass will also be included in today's announcement.

Mallow is getting a relief road as well, so that means Cork is getting Dunkettle (desperately needed), Macroom (finally), Ringaskiddy (also desperately needed) and a relief road for Mallow (which isn't really needed but is better than nothing I suppose).

https://twitter.com/seansherlocktd/status/648825492922060800

I am VERY disappointed that it looks like nothing is going to be done on the M20. Cork has done OK thus far, it could have been a lot worse, but equally it could have been a lot better, the road between the country's second and third cities is nowhere near good enough. Getting Adare bypassed is fantastic news as well, between this and Macroom Kerry has certainly done well for itself.

The problem with any of those suggestions is that they're not in Enda or Michael Ring's constituency. In fairness the stats show that the N5 is busiest within Mayo, so there is a certain amount of (non-politically expedient) logic to doing this bit any way.

Well at least Metro North is in planning (I know that's a very different thing to actually doing something about it), and DART Underground is being revised to save money (which I think is bonkers, but at least it's still being planned). There's diddly squat about the M20, maybe by the time I'm 40 (13 years away) the M20 will have seen the light of day, not that I'm getting my hopes up on it mind you.