M20 Motorway
| M20 motorway | |
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| Part of | |
| Length: | 8 km (5 mi) |
| Existed: | 2001 – present |
| History: | Postponed due to lack of funding |
| Major junctions | |
| From: | Rossbrien |
| To: | Attyflin |
| Location | |
| Primary destinations: |
Cork City, County Cork, Limerick |
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Under the government's collapsed Transport 21 initiative, the Atlantic Corridor road project aimed to link Letterkenny to Waterford via Limerick and Cork with high quality roadway. A major part of this project involved the upgrading of the N20 route between Cork and Limerick.
It was proposed to upgrade or replace the entire N20 with a new M20 motorway, approximately 90 km (56 mi) in length, with up to eight newly constructed junctions or re-configured junctions. It was to be constructed in two stages: a southern section and a northern section. It is hoped that this project will be progressed as a PPP scheme. Details of progress on the scheme can be found on the Cork National Roads Office website.
The first segment of M20 motorway came into existence on 28 August 2009 following the approval by the Minister for Transport to redesignate a 10 km (6 mi) of existing N20 dual-carriageway between Rossbrien and Attyflin as motorway.
On 10 November 2011, owing to funding issues caused by the current financial crisis in Ireland, the government announced that the planned completion of the M20 motorway is to be shelved for the foreseeable future, along with a number of other insfrastructural projects.
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