- For the Israeli National Roads Authority, see National Road Company of
Israel.
The
National Roads Authority (NRA) (
) is a state body in the Republic of Ireland
, responsible for the national road network.
The NRA was established as part of the
Roads Act 1993, and commenced operations on
23 December 1993 in
accordance with S.I. 407 of 1993.
County councils remain responsible
for local and
regional roads, as well
as various tasks like setting speed limits. The NRA, meanwhile, is
responsible for the planning, maintenance and construction of
National
Primary Routes and
National
Secondary Routes as well as establishing safety measures.
Ireland's national road network consists of of National Primary
Routes and of National Secondary Routes.
The body also plays an environmental and archaeological role as
part of the road building programme, publishing an archaeology
magazine,
seanda, since 2006. Since
2007 it has operated the
eToll
toll payment interoperability system.
The NRA is headed by a
Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) who reports to the NRA's board which in
turn reports to the Minister for Transport. There are four
departmental heads who report to the CEO: the Head of Finance and
Administration, the Head of Engineering Operations, the Head of PPP
(
Public Private
Partnerships), Strategic Planning and Commercial Operations and
the Head of Corporate Affairs and Professional Services.
At present, the NRA is mainly concerned with the extensive
expansion of Ireland's
motorway
network under the
National
Development Plan (NDP). The
Transport
21 element of the NDP involves improvements to Ireland's
transport networks including its roads. The NRA is responsible for
making major improvements to key roads, especially the Major
Inter-Urban Routes
[68929].
These routes are the N1/M1 (Dublin
- north of
Dundalk
), the N4/M4/N6/M6 (Dublin - Kinnegad
-Galway
), the
N7/M7 (Dublin-Limerick
), the
N8/M8 (Portlaoise
-Cork
) and the
N9/M9 (near Naas
-Waterford
).
Major
improvements are also being made to many other national primary and
national secondary routes, most notably the Atlantic Corridor
routes (N15, N17, N18, N20, N24, N25) and the N11/M11 (Dublin - Wexford
).
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