April 18, 2017

On the 10th anniversary of the Port Tunnel being open for traffic Bertie Ahern reminisces about “largest piece of infrastructure ever delivered in Ireland”.

The first HGVs entered from the port shortly before 11am and journeyed north bore and back up the south in just over 10 minutes. The tunnel was designed to eliminate heavy truck traffic from Dublin City Centre. The tunnel as designed as a dedicated route for heavy goods vehicles leaving Dublin Port, it was described by Ibec in 1996 as “the single most important piece of national transport infrastructure within the last decade”.

Read more about this engineering feat and the impact it had on Dublin City on The Irish Times.