Louth County Council is continuing to deliver improvements as part of its Road Safety Plan.

Over half a a million euro is being invested in the plan to improve vehicular safety on Louth's roads, funded by TII (Transport Infrastructure Ireland) and the Council. When complete, this project will offer the most advanced safety barrier system available worldwide.

The local authority installed almost two kilometres of vehicle restraint barriers at designated locations around the county as part of the plan.

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Local roads set to benefit from these state of the art safety barriers include the N53 Dundalk-Castleblayney, N52 (Ardee), R178 Dundalk to Carrickmacross, and the L1153 (Killany).

Lagan Operations & Maintenance, who was the successful contractor following a competitive tender process, is carrying out the work on behalf of Louth County Council. Installation of the new and replacement barriers is expected to be completed by the end of April.

Welcoming the works, Louth County Council's Director of Placemaking and Physical Development, Catherine Duff said: "When complete Louth's county roads will have an advanced and innovative barrier system offering the safest level of road safety in the event of vehicles losing control or being involved in a collision and leaving the main road carriageway."

The unique barrier terminals also prevent the potential risk of 'spearing' of vehicles which was a risk under older systems, and are carefully designed to contain vehicles from potentially careering off the road.