London-Dublin Team Looks for Ireland's Roads to Riches
"We have a backlog of work in roads to complete," says John McGowan, president of Engineers Ireland, which has 22,000 members. Invoking the example of the U.S. Interstate system, he says, "We only now have the resources and methods for delivering that here."
The resources come from the Irish government's Transport 21 initiative, which will cost $45.8 billion between 2006 and 2015. Major goals include the development of a city-to-city motorway network by 2010, improvements in the rest of the national road network, and major transit projects.