Work will start today on a 10-kilometre bypass in Co Leitrim.
Minister of State for Transport Pat the Cope Gallagher, is to turn the first sod on the €84.2 million Dromod and Roosky Bypass project, which will remove two notorious bottlenecks on the N4 key route in the west and carry up to 6,000 vehicles a day.
It is due to be completed in 2008.
The bypass will also make the villages of Dromod and Roosky more accessible and appealing to visitors.
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The N4 is undergoing a major facelift and the now has over 80 kilometres of continuous motorway or equivalent from Dublin to northwest of Mullingar and west of Kinnegad.