The Government's new road safety strategy will recommend the creation of a special fund to deal with accident blackspots.
The move would focus on 670 particularly dangerous locations which have recorded high numbers of collisions and fatal crashes - 450 on non-national roads and 240 on national routes.
The National Roads Authority (NRA) has already completed several such repairs as part of a pilot programme and it has proven so effective that the scheme is going to be part of the overall road safety strategy for the next three years.
The new strategy also proposes doubling the period of disqualification for drink driving from the current range of three months to four years, to a minimum of a six months disqualification, running up to eight years.
The final draft of the plan is before the Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, and is due for publication before Easter.
Among the many proposals and recommendations of the document, it will call for a reduction in road deaths by 25 per cent over the next three years, which would bring the annual death toll on our roads to below 300 by 2006.
The number of people who died on Irish roads last year dropped to 341 from 376 the previous year. The reduction is being attributed to the penalty points system.
The strategy was developed by a high-level government group comprising gardai, the National Roads Authority and the National Safety Council. The previous road safety strategy set a target of a 20 per cent reduction in road deaths from 1997 to 2002.
The introduction of the new strategy will come within months of a new Road Traffic Bill being brought before the Dáil by Mr Brennan.
The bill will include provisions for a ban on the use of mobile phones while driving and will also allow for the introduction of privately-operated fixed speed cameras, fixed fines for minor motoring and cycling offences and for the metrification of speed limits.
The roll out of speed cameras which was first promised by Government in 1998 as part of the then road safety strategy, The Road to Safety will now require "primary legislation" the Attorney General's office has advised the Minister.