Major roadworks which will remove the last set of traffic lights between Cork and Belfast are getting underway.
The Transport Minister has turned the sod on the N7 flyover at Newlands Cross in Dublin and on the new N11 Arklow to Rathnew dual-carriageway in Co. Wicklow.
It is part of a €€282 million public private partnership - the first of its kind in 5 years.
Work on the projects is due to be completed by 2015. Transport Minister Leo Vardkar says it will create hundreds of new jobs.
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The last of the bottlenecks between Dublin and Cork, and Dublin and Wexford should be gone in 2 years time. The Newlands Cross project is due to finish in early 2015 while the N11 project where 16.5kms of new dual carriageway and a new service area will be constructed will be finished later that year.
Sean O'Â’Neill from the National Roads Authority (NRA) says there will be some traffic disruption during the works.
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Minister Leo Varadkar says itÂ’s the first such project since the economy collapsed.
