If you’re a daily commuter between the Ringaskiddy side of the harbour, Carrigaline or Crosshaven and have to battle your way up Carr’s Hill every day – you’ll know there’s kinda a big build going on in the area.
The Ringaskiddy Motorway M28 project is set to transform transport to the area that includes Cork’s biggest and fastest growing town (Carrigaline) and finally give the huge port at Ringaskiddy a main connection to the national motorway network.
Not due to be fully completed until 2030, the works have been progressing quickly recently, after disruption caused by the pandemic. And a new video by expert drone flyer DroneHawk – posted to his YouTube Channel that features fascinating videos of major projects across Cork and Munster – shows just how far the motorway has come – and how far it still has to go.
Starting out at the port in Ringaskiddy – which is also undergoing a major expansion programme (you can see the views from the top of the cranes here ) – the drone captured video follows the path of the new road over the hills past the huge Raffeen Quarry and onto Carr’s Hill before descending to the point where it will join up with the Southern Ring Road via the bloomfield interchange.
Funded by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, the design and build contract will see the construction of approximately 11km of mainline motorway from the Bloomfield Interchange to Barnahely. A construction contract to deliver 1.5 kilometres of single-carriageway from Barnahely to the Port of Cork in Ringaskiddy went out to tender in August.