Business leaders back plan for controversial bypass

SENIOR business leaders have called on the Government to press ahead with plans for a controversial eastern bypass to complete the M50 ring motorway around Dublin.

IBEC’s director of transport policy, Reg McCabe and the chief executive of Dublin Port Company, Enda Connellan have both recommended the speeding up of the project as vital to alleviate the city’s traffic and transport problems.

Writing in Roads Ireland magazine, Mr McCabe said objections to the project were based on cost-benefit criticisms. He acknowledged such scepticism was perhaps justified with estimates it could be €2 billion.