Travel times between two cities expected to be reduced by 30 minutes with tolls along length of new and redeveloped route
Construction is likely to take four to eight years depending on whether the work is done in simultaneous or staggered 40km stagesN20 road is to be upgraded to a full motorway at an estimated cost of around €2 billion euro and road users will have to pay via tolls for the improvements which will cut travel times between the two cities by up to 30 minutes, it emerged on Monday.
‘Hopefully you are executed’: Man accused of sending threatening messages to three TDs found not guiltyThe new 80km motorway will be have two carriageways and a hard shoulder either side of a central median and because it will be a motorway, there will be slip road junctions rather than roundabouts with a speed limit of 120km/h compared to 100km/h on dual carriageway.
“We are also trying to make the tolling effective so that it keeps HGVs and trucks out of towns like Charleville and Buttevant because often with single point tolling, trucks can duck off the road and end up going through a town to avoid paying a toll and then come back on again. The new M20 will then cut west of Ballyhea and Charleville in North Cork and it follows a new line as it enters Limerick, west of Banogue before coming back to join the existing route on the Croom By-pass to connect with the existing M20 motorway at Attyflin near Patrickswell.
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