Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Roads Infrastructure Programme: Discussion.
9:00 am
Mr. Michael Nolan:
The targets from the road safety strategy do not force us to close up entrances. We did a calculation on where we will be in respect of that target by 2020 and given the amount of realignment of motorways, we have more than 100 kilometres of motorway under construction. We will deliver approximately 150 kilometres of single carriageway realignments during the period of the plan. We will comfortably hit that target without having to look at an aspiration that we would close up people's entrances on to national roads. That does not come into the picture at all in our determination. It does come into our picture with regard to new entrances.
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