Upgrade of 'dangerous' stretch of Cork road to take years, councillors told

Junctions at sections of N22 between Macroom and Ballincollig 'are each as dangerous as the next', with 'crazy amount of traffic' on the road

Cork council seeking the funding to commence 'initial stages' for the upgrading of the road between Coolcower, Macroom and Ovens — which is the section which remains to be turned into dual carriageway. Picture: Denis Minihane

Upgrading the “dangerous” stretch of road between two Cork bypasses will take many years to progress, a senior council engineer has warned.

Sean Callery, the council’s senior executive engineer in its roads design office, issued the warning as he announced the council is seeking funding from Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to start progressing designs to improve the N22 section between Macroom and Ballincollig.