The Atlantic Corridor is a road project in Ireland that eventually will link Waterford in the South-East to Letterkenny in the North-West by high-quality dual carriageway or motorway. A major infrastructure project, the scheme was announced as part of the Transport 21 project launch in 2005, and is due to be completed by 2015. Some sections are running ahead of this schedule with others, such as the Ennis bypass, already completed. However, it is likely that major sections of the project will remain at the planning stage owing to cutbacks in the 2010 budget. The Atlantic Corridor, when combined with the inter-urban motorways linking Dublin and the other cities (except Derry), will effectively ring the island of Ireland, while at the same time connecting the primary population and economic centres.