Dublin and Belfast are being brought closer together, by road. The road north in the last twelve months has been improved out of all knowing, and in places it is approaching the perfection of the German Autobahnen in its width, surface and straightness.
The various road-widening schemes along the road have been tackled in an enterprising way. Corners have been swept away, great new "cuts" made in places to get rid of dangerously shaped sections, and generally the engineers responsible seem to have been planning intelligently, in the realisation that motor traffic between Belfast and Dublin is not to be measured for all time by its strength in 1938.
The Irish Times
November 21st, 1938.