Plans drawn up to ease city’s bottleneck route

PLANS have been drawn up to replace the Dunkettle roundabout with signalised dual carriageway and create a new slip road which will allow Dublin-bound traffic to avoid the congested junction at the Jack Lynch Tunnel interchange.

Members of Cork County Council voted yesterday to proceed with the €10 million plan.

County engineer Noel O’Keeffe said it was necessary to replace the Dunkettle roundabout because traffic was backing up at it during peak times, to such an extent that it would soon come to a standstill.