NRA announces starting date for €434m road on Cork-Dublin route
The new 40km-long M8/N8 Cullahill-Cashel road will be the longest motorway scheme in the country. It is due to commence in October.
The roads authority said the project would take the inter-urban connection between Cork and Dublin one giant step forward.
“We are very pleased to approve the awarding of the contract by Kilkenny County Council to RoadBridge/Sisk JV,” said NRA chief executive Fred Barry. “We look forward to the successful completion of the project in 2009.”
The planned new road will comprise of 30km of two-lane dual carriageway and 10km of motorway, with associated grade-separated junctions, underbridges, overbridges and accommodation works through primarily a green field site.
The project was tendered as a design-and-build project at a total outturn value cost of €434.3m inclusive of VAT, planning and& design, archaeology, advanced works, land and property acquisitions.
The route commences at the interface with the N8 Cashel bypass scheme in Co Tipperary and ends at the interface with the proposed M7/M8 Portlaoise to Cullahill scheme at Cullahill in Co Laois.
Grade-separated junctions will be located at Cashel, Horse and Jockey, Twomileborris and Urlingford.
Including the Cullahill/Cashel Project, there is a total of 112km of new road projects either completed or under construction along the N8 corridor.
This leaves just 30km of new road to be built to finish the connection between Cork and Dublin.