New city outer bypass design set to go on display

The controversial new city bypass proposal will go to a public display stage later this month at the County and City Hall offices in the city.

According to a public notice published this week, the display ‘is to provide an update on the design development of the Galway City Ring Road’ [the bypass].

The project – being handled by the National Roads Project Office of Galway Co. Council – will go on public display from Monday, November 14.

During the display period – that ends on Friday, December 2 – members of the public can make their views known ‘in developing the design’ of the project and on the Environmental Impact Assessment report.

“Galway County Council values the opinions of the community and welcomes comment from the public and interested parties,” the Council state in their public notice this week.

In the region of 40 home owners will be impacted on by the bypass that will start close to the end of the motorway to Dublin and end with a link-up to the R336 Coast Road about two kilometres west of Barna village.

The preferred route for the 20km bypass is an amalgamation of the six potential ‘map lines’ published last year and will mainly impact on homeowners in parts of Castlegar and in the Dangan/North Circular Road area.

Mayor of Galway, Cllr Noel Larkin, told the Galway City Tribune that the provision of the bypass was one of the critical pieces of infrastructure necessary to improve the overall transportation situation in the city.

“We badly need to free up the city from traffic that doesn’t need to go through the urban area – the bypass is an important piece of the jigsaw in terms of our overall transport policy,” said Mayor Larkin.

For more on the outer bypass, see this week’s Galway City Tribune