Atlantic Corridor

{{short description |Proposed road project in Ireland}}

{{About|Irish road project|other uses|Atlantic Corridor (disambiguation)}}

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The Atlantic corridor{{cite web|url = http://www.transport21.ie/Projects/Roads/N15_N17_N18_N20_N25_Atlantic_Corridor.html | title = Atlantic Corridor | website = transport21.ie | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20081216093545/http://www.transport21.ie/Projects/Roads/N15_N17_N18_N20_N25_Atlantic_Corridor.html |archivedate=2008-12-16 }} or Atlantic motorway{{cite web|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/no-toilet-stop-provided-on-101km-atlantic-motorway-1.3246117 | title = No toilet stop provided on 101km 'Atlantic motorway' | publisher = Irish Times | website = irishtimes.com | date = 5 October 2017 | accessdate = 6 June 2022}} is a proposed road project in Ireland. The scheme, announced in 2005, was intended to link Waterford in the South-East to Letterkenny in the North-West via motorway or dual carriageway by 2015.Brian McDonald. "[http://www.independent.ie/national-news/atlantic-corridor-roads-plan-starts-three-years-early-61436.html Atlantic Corridor roads plan starts three years early]", Irish Independent, 26 January 2007. However, in part due to the post-2008 Irish economic downturn, major sections of the roadway were delayed or cancelled.

The Atlantic Corridor, when combined with the inter-urban motorways linking Dublin and the other cities, is intended to ring the island of Ireland and to connect primary population centres.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

National primary roads

The constituent national primary routes, included in the 2007 plan, included:

Progress

As of 2018, over {{cvt|100|km}} of the route was completed motorway or dual carriageway.{{fact|date=June 2022}} At that time, the next construction planned was the M20 from Cork to Limerick, which was allocated €850 million in government funds under the National Development Plan 2018-2027 capital scheme. The M20, which was "progressed through planning and design phases" as of 2010,{{cite web|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/need-for-n20-cork-limerick-road-upgrade-identified-in-1998-1.4840360 | publisher = Irish Times | website = irishtimes.com | title = Need for N20 Cork-Limerick road upgrade identified in 1998 | date = 30 March 2022 | accessdate = 6 June 2022 | quote = The N/M20 Cork to Limerick Motorway Scheme, which was to form part of the government's Atlantic Corridor strategy to link Letterkenny to Waterford, was progressed through planning and design phases and the scheme was submitted to An Bord Pleanála in 2010 }} is proposed to link with the planned Cork northern ring road, also forming part of the Atlantic Corridor route, connecting the planned Cork to Limerick motorway with the partially completed Cork-Waterford N25 dual carriageway.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

= Completed sections =

=Proposed developments=

  • N25 Carrigtwohill to Midleton road - construction rescheduled{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
  • M20 Patrickswell to Blarney - planning stage (as of 2020){{cite web|url = https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0330/1289292-cork-limerick-transport-links/ | publisher = RTÉ News | website = rte.ie | title = Preferred route for new Limerick to Cork road revealed | date = 30 March 2022 | accessdate = 30 March 2022 }}

See also

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