National Primary Route 21 |
Could open : 2025-2030 |
Status : Uncommitted |
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The county of Kerry suffers from poor access. Towns such as Dingle, Caherciveen, Listowel, and even the county town Tralee are far from any major trunk routes. Dual carriageway penetrating the county as far as Tralee and coming from both the Limerick and Cork directions would do much to redress this problem. Although schemes are in preparation to cover some of this distance, they will not reach all the way to Tralee. This dual carriageway aims to widen, through online dualling, the section from Tralee to the Castleisland bypass which opened in October 2010. Update July 2011: The route that the Tralee Bypass is taking, construction of which began this month, parallels a section of the N21 with a new route for the N22. The N22 and N21 will now be on completely separate routes and interfacing the Tralee Ring Road at different points. Since the N21 will no longer carry the traffic loads for both routes, it is now no longer necessary for it to be dualled. The Tralee Bypass will open in July 2013. | ||||
ESSENTIAL INFO :
| Origin | Tralee, Kerry |
| Terminates | Castleisland, Kerry |
| Places Served | - |
| Routes Spawned | - |
| Intersects | - |
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JupiterKid from Ireland rates this scheme 7/10 and its alignment 8/10; and reckons the standard is about right. He has the following comment to make:
"Yes, I would agree with this section of the N21 being dualled fully. There were plans to dual part of this route in the 1990s (from the N22 junction to Tralee town) but for some reason they were dropped. Trafic volumes would probably warrant this scheme."
[Note that, as pointed out above, this may no longer be a valid assertion due to the alignment that the Tralee bypass scheme is taking.]