Funding for new Corrib footbridge included in €67m funding rollout

From this week’s Galway City Tribune – More than €67 million in funding will be announced today for infrastructural projects in Galway City – including the new pedestrian and cycle bridge across the Corrib on the old railway line, and overhauls for Woodquay, the Cathedral Plaza and Fishmarket Square.

The funding will be announced this morning (Friday) under the Government’s Urban Regeneration Development Fund and will also include allocations towards regeneration schemes at Nuns Island and Ceannt Station.

A total of €4.3 million has been provided towards a new innovation district at Nuns Island in cooperation with NUI Galway, as well as a riverside campus to regenerate the locality.

It will also feature an artistic performance space for the city’s cultural and creative sector, as well as an enhanced public realm alongside on-campus accommodation for students and researchers.

An €11 million pedestrian and cycle bridge across the Corrib – along the buttresses for the old Clifden railway line – is among the projects that will be supported in the funding, as it is regarded as forming an integral part of the city’s cycle network.

Galway West TD and Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Hildegarde Naughton, said the regeneration of the Ceannt Quarter will see the development of an “integrated transport hub in the heart of the city centre with links to bus services, the cycle network and pedestrian links”.
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