Brennan to outline €1.2bn road programme

The Minister for Transport is to unveil details of this year's €1

The Minister for Transport is to unveil details of this year's €1.2 billion road-building programme and will outline progress in work on a motorway network linking the State's major cities.

Mr Brennan and the National Roads Authority (NRA) will give a rundown on which road projects will begin in 2004 and update on the progress of others under way.

The Minister has €1.227 billion for investment this year and more than €7 billion over the next five years.

In December, Mr Brennan announced a major revision of the timetable for the building of motorways from Dublin to Cork and Galway. The revision will see both routes "substantially completed" by 2007.

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The Government decided that at least three motorways should be substantially completed by 2007 - just one year off the original target in the National Development Plan 2000-2006.

Mr Brennan said the prioritisation of the three routes over the next five years would not cause other road projects to be delayed.