Waterford bypass will go ahead, says NRA

THE construction of the Waterford city bypass will not be affected by the decision to divert €8 million of its funding to other road projects, the National Roads Authority pledged yesterday.

Progress on the bypass - designed to link the Waterford to Cork N25 to a proposed new motorway to Dublin - has been delayed while the Environment Minister Dick Roche awaits recommendations from a number of experts about how to proceed with the Viking site discovered on the route of the development at Woodstown.

Chairman of the NRA Michael Egan said it was “standard practice” to put the funding to good use if delays were ongoing but said it did not represent a diversion in commitment to the project.