Red Cow Roundabout work to cost €37m

CHANGING the layout of the Red Cow Roundabout in Dublin to tackle its huge traffic congestion problems will cost in the order of €37 million.

Secretary General of the Department of Transport Julie O’Neill told the Public Accounts Committee yesterday that the junction - mockingly referred to as the ‘Mad Cow Roundabout’ - was the busiest traffic intersection in the State and acknowledged there were difficulties with the 70,000 vehicles that passed through it each day.

She told Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins and Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte that a new layout for the junction was in the planning process and the Department was awaiting proposals from the National Road Authority in relation to finance.