N13 Bridgend to County Boundary Route Improvement Project

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The Project is located along a 1.2 km length of the TEN-T Comprehensive Road Network in County Donegal, in the north-west of Ireland and comprises the completing of studies required to facilitate the removal of a significant bottleneck on a cross-border road between Bridgend in Republic of Ireland (RoI) and Derry City in Northern Ireland (NI). The studies involve completing of all planning & preliminary design in order to obtain the statutory & other approvals required to facilitate future construction of the project. The Project contributes to: (i) enhancing accessibility to a peripheral area of the European Union (EU); (ii) improving connectivity between the RoI & NI through the link between Letterkenny & Derry City (via Bridgend); (iii) optimising of journey times; (iv) alleviating of traffic congestion & improving of journey time reliability; (v) improving of road safety; (vi) reducing of negative climate & environmental impacts; and (vii) encouraging a more balanced modal distribution by increasing of modal shift opportunities, through provision of a complete Active Travel Network inter alia. The Project, as part of a Global Project, produces significant economic, socio-economic, environmental, climatic, safety & health benefits for the inhabitants of County Donegal and the north-west Ireland, by reducing the negative impacts of peripherality through improving of accessibility to the EU. The project is based on completing of Phases 2 - 3 of Transport Infrastructure Ireland’s (TII’s) Project Management Guidelines, being the main guidance document for developing of National Road projects in Ireland, with TII being responsible for the future development & operation of the National Road Network.