Truckers express concerns about Dublin Port Tunnel exit

Truck drivers are expressing new concerns about the Dublin Port Tunnel and the apparently poor planning that has gone into the €750m facility.

The Irish Road Haulage Association says heavy goods vehicles leaving the northbound exit will be put into the right-hand lane of the M1 motorway.

They will then have to cross quickly through traffic into the left-hand lane if they want to gain access to the M50 slip road.

IRHA spokesman Liam Brewer said: "There's too short a distance to try and achieve that. That realisation seems to have come on the city council very, very late.

"It's going to be a very intricate, a very dangerous bit of manoeuvring to get onto the M50/M1 junction."