CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO REMOVE KIRWAN ROUNDABOUT

Date Published: 15-May-2012

Galway city council has voted to remove the Kirwan roundabout at the Menlo Park Hotel.

At last evening’s city council meeting, councillors voted 9 – 6 in favour of replacing the roundabout with a signalised junction as part of the n6 Bothar na dTreabh scheme.

Councillors were asked to vote on one of three options- the first was diverting a road from the Menlo Park Hotel grounds through to the Headford road, the second involved the closure of the Liosban leg of the junction and creating a new access road, and the third was to do nothing and leave the roundabout intact.

After debating the issue for over two hours, the majority of councillors voted in favour of option one, also the preferred option of the city transportation unit.

The four leg signalised junction with the re-alignment of the road from the Menlo Park Hotel to a new T.junction can now proceed to the planning process.

There may be some issues with this however, as City Councillor Frank Fahy, who opposed the plans, claims the Menlo Park Hotel has planning for a leisure facility near the proposed new route.