South Ring flyovers see city's suburbs swamped

The opening of two flyovers on Cork’s N40 South Ring Road has swamped the city’s western suburbs with traffic, a report has found.

The findings in the N40 Southern Ring Road Demand Management Study prompted renewed calls last night for the release of funding for a western access road to the CIT campus to alleviate chronic traffic pressure in Bishopstown.

Data presented to the most recent meeting of the Cork Area Strategic Policy committee shows that the annual average daily traffic number using the motorway’s Curraheen interchange is 26,949 vehicles.