The Atlantic Corridor is a road project in Ireland that eventually will link Waterford in the South-East to Letterkenny in the North-West by high-quality dual carriageway or motorway. A major infrastructure project, the scheme was announced as part of the Transport 21 project launch in 2005, and was originally due to be completed by 2015, but due to the great financial crisis major sections of the roadway were delayed or cancelled and it is likely that major sections of the project will remain at the planning stage owing to cutbacks in the 2010 budget. The Atlantic Corridor, when combined with the inter-urban motorways linking Dublin and the other cities (except Derry), will effectively ring the island of Ireland, while at the same time connecting the primary population and economic centres.
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National primary roads
The constituent routes are:
Progress
Following the motorway re-designations of 28 August 2009, 27.8 km of the route is now motorway.