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Fri 01 Jan 2007N11 road blackspot upgrade not in NRA planThe upgrading of one of the east coast's most notorious stretches of roads, a 19km-link between the Rathnew and Arklow bypasses in south Co Wicklow on the N11, has been left out of the National Roads Authority construction programme for the third year in a row.A large number of people have been killed on the single-carriageway stretch of road in the last decade, including five people who died in a school minibus in 1998.