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[article] Transport Minister Announcing New Funding

  • 23-02-2005 1:21pm
    #1
    mike65
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    From unison.
    Cullen announces record €1.4bn road funding package

    Transport Minister Martin Cullen has unveiled a record €1.4bn funding package for road projects this year.

    Mr Cullen said the money would allow construction to begin on 19 new projects, eight of them in the border, midlands and western region.

    He also said it would pave the way for the completion of eight projects in 2005, including the South Eastern Motorway and the Dublin Port Tunnel.

    Meanwhile, Mr Cullen also confirmed that he had ordered the National Roads Authority to carry out a feasibility study on a new ring-road around Dublin.

    The road from Drogheda to Naas, via Navan, is being considered in an effort to ease congestion on the M50, which currently rings the capital

    More to follow no doubt.

    Mike.


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  • #2
    Victor
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    http://www.nra.ie/News/PressReleases/d1717.HTML.html


  • #3
    DubTony
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    Victor wrote:
    http://www.nra.ie/News/PressReleases/d1717.HTML.html
    .
    From that Press Release

    Announcing details of the 2005 National Roads Improvement Programme with NRA Chairman, Peter Malone, Minister Cullen also announced that the Government has asked the NRA to carry out a feasibility study for an outer ring road of Dublin.

    “Infrastructure must be planned well and planned early. An outer ring road will not happen overnight, but now is the time to explore how it could work, the difference it could make and how much it would cost. On transport infrastructure we have a responsibility to think about the future and that is what the Government is committed to”.*

    You have to love that "Ring Road will not happen overnight". How about (where's me calculator?) 7300 overnights?

    20 odd years on and the M50 is still not finished. This proposed "by-pass" will obviously be a hell of a lot longer than the Coolock to Bray road. ;) I'd be willing to take bets on how long it would take to build, but I don't want to leave my grandkids having to pay your grandkids if I lost.

    And then there's "Infrastructure must be planned well and planned early" ...ROFLMAO...

    and finally tonight ... "On transport infrastructure we have a responsibility to think about the future and that is what the Government is committed to."

    Soundbite politics from Minister Monic ... eh, Cullen.

    Tony


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