Upgrade ‘good value for money’

The National Roads Authority (NRA) says a proposed €90m upgrade of the Dunkettle/Jack Lynch Tunnel interchange represented “good value for money” as it would speed up traffic and benefit the economy.

However, NRA officials told a Bord Pleanála oral hearing yesterday it was extremely unlikely construction would begin before 2016.

The project will take two years to complete and the scale of construction will necessitate “extensive traffic management, including lane closures, diversions, and contra-flows”.