North West passage!

[armaghniac]

one wonders about the route of this?


from breakingnews.ie

Package would fund biggest-ever cross-border project
22/03/2007 - 16:04:41

If accepted, the new financial package for the North announced today is to fund biggest-ever cross-border project to date - a major motorway to Donegal and Derry.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's Cabinet has pledged £400m (€589.5m) of British Chancellor Gordon Brown's total £1bn (€1.47bn) fund to help devolved Assembly ministers deal with infrastructural challenges in the months ahead.

Minister for Finance Minster Brian Cowen said the dual-carriageway road stretching to Derry and Donegal would remove the single biggest impediment to the future development of the Northwest and the border counties.

"It will be the biggest and most important cross-border project ever on this island," he added.

As Monday's deadline for devolution nears, Mr Cowen said Brown's package offers a real opportunity for economic progress to accompany political stability in the North.

"This unprecedented investment has been made possible through the joint contribution of the Irish and British governments and will benefit everybody on this island.

"The agreement on a major cross-border roads programme and a new North/South research and innovation fund represent the type of imaginative and ambitious policies that we need to pursue to secure peace and build future prosperity."

The Chancellor also supports wide proposals benefiting the North contained in the Irish Government's National Development Plan 2007-2013.

Mr Cowen said he now looked forward to the progression of projects like the Ulster Canal, Narrow Water Bridge as well as tourism and regional development.

"Work is already under way on a number of other projects, such as the re-opening of border roads, City of Derry Airport, the North West Gateway Initiative, electricity interconnection and the single electricity market," he added.

"There is also huge untapped potential for improving public services such as health and education through working together."

[ziggysego]

What ever happened to that road coming down pass Omagh, on towards Monagan and down to Dublin?

[heganboy]

it was decided that it was too close to Greencastle so they canceled it

[Fionntamhnach]

Definitely the right idea, though they should also be looking to build a railtrack from Derry to Dublin alongside it.

[ziggysego]

it was decided that it was too close to Greencastle so they canceled it

Cheeky fecker! 

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Definitely the right idea, though they should also be looking to build a railtrack from Derry to Dublin alongside it.

Absolutely, the feckers should never have pulled it up in the first place. All under the pretext and sham cover of that bollix Beeching (he of the Beeching Axe). That line split at Strabane and forked to Letterkenny and Derry.

[bailestil]

Hate to drag up an old thread, but sure its relevant.

I now see that our locally appointed MLA's have suddenly decided to hide the £250 allocated for the A6 upgrade, Derry to Dungiven, so that the Irish government funded upgrade of the A5 to Aughnacloy can now help us all on our way to belfast somehow.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article3271027.ece

Is this ANOTHER reason why we might be better off handing power back to Direct rule ministers. At least they could be lobbied for stuff west of the Bann. Our own Local MLA's are more insistant on everything being based in Belfast, than the Direct Rule ministers ever were.