Road project misses eight different deadlines

Date Published: 31-May-2012

By Dara Bradley

Today, Friday, marks the eighth deadline that has been missed for the completion of the controversial Seamus Quirke Road project – and still the work is not yet finished.

The transformation of the road to include bus lanes and cycle lanes was due to be finished last September and was supposed to cost €10 million. The road is now over nine months late and is expected to cost an additional €6 million once the final tally is made.

Galway City Council are the lead agents for the project, which is being carried out by Coffey Construction.

The Council has set eight different deadlines since last Autumn that were all missed. According to the local authority, the project was expected to be finished in September 2011, then it was October, then it was November, then the new deadline was Christmas, then when that wasn’t met it was February, then March, then April and then the end of May.

The Council’s most recent deadline of May has passed and the work is not yet completed.

For more on this story, see the Galway City Tribune.