[Article] Gorey Bypass

Victor

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€200m plan to bypass town will end bottleneck
From:The Irish Independent
Thursday, 28th August, 2003
Paul Melia

CONSTRUCTION is due to begin in early 2005 on the long-awaited Gorey bypass in Co Wexford.

Wexford county manager Seamus Dooley yesterday signed a compulsory purchase order (CPO) under which the necessary lands for the 23km bypass - the first dual carriageway in the county - will be acquired.

Construction of the €200m project is due to begin in 2005, with a projected completion date in late 2008. Wexford County Council said yesterday the new road would run from the end of the Arklow bypass in Co Wicklow to Clough and would bring "welcome relief" to Gorey. The bypass, one of three planned for the county, will also shorten journey times from Dublin to the Rosslare Harbour Euroroute.

"This is one of the largest road schemes to be undertaken in the country and one of the most important in County Wexford," Mr Dooley, who retires tomorrow, said. Over the coming weeks statutory notices to give effect to the CPO will be issued to landowners before the project goes through a public consultation process.

A determination of the CPO by An Bord Pleanala is expected in spring 2004, followed by preparation of tender documents and commencement of the statutory acquisition procedures, including negotiations with affected landowners.

The council expects to award the tender for construction in late 2004, with work beginning the following year.

The bypass is just one element of a six-year road programme which includes additional bypasses of Enniscorthy and New Ross and a new access road to Rosslare Harbour.

Final routes have been selected for the projects and all will proceed to the preliminary design and land acquisition stage once funding is allocated.

The council's programme includes a second river crossing for New Ross, and new roads between Gorey and Arklow, and Jamestown and New Ross.

loyatemu

as with the M3 this is another road that is being built to facilitate commuters - although at least in this case there is a major port at the end of the N11, though I don't know if Rosslare really generates that much traffic.

mike65

don't know if Rosslare really generates that much traffic.

After you've spent 25 mins crawling through Gorey during the summer months or if any sort of work is being done on the road
through (it only has one hence the trouble) you know a by-pass
is vital.

Mike.

jd

its a busy route-
you have rosslare port->wexford->enniscorthy-> Gorey traffic


however traffic will increase and the bottleneck will move back to camolin and ferns-ferns has a t junction where the N11 does *not* have priority