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ital road schemes throughout the north west will be suspended following the dramatic announcement by the Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar ordering the NRA to suspend all road schemes, in an effort to save money. In a statement on Tuesday Minister Varadkar said that all road schemes, across the country will be brought to the end at their current stage of planning and then suspended. The Minister has instructed the NRA to reduce spending on all planning and preparatory work and therefore “the NRA is taking all road projects to the end of their current stage of planning and will suspend at that point.” This includes the N4 ‘Death Stretch’ between Collooney and Castlebaldwin in Co. Sligo where 29 crosses line the 11 km stretch reminding motorists of the people who lost their lives there in accidents. Currently the Collooney-Castlebaldwin upgrade is in the ‘Preliminary Design Stage’, meaning it will be a long time coming even when funding is returned to road schemes. Throughout the northwest there are 36 road schemes listed on the NRA website, not already in the tender, construction or completed phase, which will be affected by the suspension. (Note: Some Road Schemes will be included more than once as they cross county boundaries) In Sligo there are seven road schemes affected: the Collooney/ Castlebaldwin
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upgrade, the N4/N15 upgrade to Sligo County border has had the area outside Sligo City already suspended and now the section from the relief road over Hughes Bridge will not go ahead either; the N16 Sligo to Glencar upgrade will be suspended and the stretch of the N17 from Knock to Collooney will
now not be upgraded as the Tobercurry to Knock, Tobercurry Bypass and the Collooney to Tobercurry Bypass will be suspended. Donegal, the most dangerous county in terms of road deaths, will have nine projects suspended; the N14 Letterkenny to Lifford, the N14 Lif-
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ford/Strabane, the N14/15 link to the A5 in Tyrone, the Ballybofey/Stanorlar bypass, the N15 Lifford to Stanorlar upgrade, the N56 Dungloe to Glenties, Inver to Killybegs, Letterkenny Relief Road and the Mountcharles to Inver road schemes will all be suspended. Continued on Page 2
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