Tipperary Cahir Cashel Councillor Anne Marie Ryan is encouraging all members of the public with any concerns about the N24 road project to engage with the design team.
The major project involves construction of a new road linking the M8 Motorway north of Cahir to a point near Oola.
The project is built around upgrading the N24 roadway linking Waterford and Limerick and will deliver a by pass of Tipperary town and a number of villages in between.
The project also includes a number of new roads within Tipperary town to aid traffic movement.
The project has a defined study area and any landowner in this area could be impacted by the project – in the latest update the possible road route has been amended resulting in 39 additional landowners being impacted by the project.
Overall the number of landowners impacted is down from 565 to 307 as the designers have reduced the potential road corridor from 300m to 100m.
Details published on the website this week show possible junction points from the new roadway to existing roads.
The precise type of road to be constructed has not yet been revealed – it may be a dual carriageway.
The Project Designers expect to publish the Options Selections Report by the end of January – this report details the basis for the decisions as to route selection.
The planning application to An Bord Pleanála is due to be submitted in 2024.
Full details are available on the n24cahirlimerick.ie website and the design team can be contacted at 061 951000.
Tipperary and Limerick county councils are leading the project between Cahir and Limerick – Kilkenny county council are working on the section between Waterford and Cahir with the same project consultants namely ARUP.
