Bottleneck Fears As Motorway Arrives

Date Published: 29-Aug-2008

THE final leg of the new Galway to Dublin motorway — from Doughiska to Ballinasloe — looks set to be completed ahead of its early 2010 deadline.

Much of the major infrastructural work on the 56km stretch of roadway has already been completed —but this week fears have again expressed over the ‘massive bottleneck’ which will result at Doughiska.

Oireachtas Transport Committee Chairman Frank Fahey told the Galway City Tribune that there were very positive indications that this section of roadway would be completed by the end of next year.

“Many people in the city can now see at first hand the outline of the new road coming into the city near the Galway Clinic — it is a project which will help transform the infrastructural map of the West of Ireland,” said Deputy Fahey.

But he again called for every effort to be made to ensure that any delay in the provision of the new City Outer Bypass would be kept to a minimum.

“At this stage we do know that the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) are referring some aspects of the project to the EU Commission.

“It really is most encouraging to see the progress being made on the completion of the new M6 which will have motorway status right to the edge of the city, but the city bypass is the final piece of the jigsaw which must be…