€50m Cork flyover opens

A €50 MILLION flyover on one of the country’s most chaotic junctions will open this morning — the start of one of the busiest weekends on the roads.

But engineers gave assurances last night that the bridge over Cork’s Kinsale Road roundabout will help ease chronic congestion which has grid-locked the city over the last three days.

Up to 100,000 vehicles use the junction every day. The new flyover is expected to take over half of those over the junction cutting east-west journey times by up to 20 minutes.