U-turn on Salthill cycleway has cost €200,000

From this week’s Galway City Tribune – Almost €200,000 was spent developing plans for a temporary cycleway in Salthill, which was aborted after a U-turn by city councillors.

Galway City Council had purchased modular bus stops and planters to be used as cycle lane separators before the controversial project was voted down.

These materials were “procured and delivered, in anticipation of the project being on the ground in March 2022”.

The local authority will now seek approval from the National Transport Authority to use the material in other parts of the city.

The Council had invited tenders for other materials, such as traffic signals and bollards but it was able to cancel these when city councillors at the February reversed their decision to proceed with the cycleway following a public backlash.

This “minimised the cost incurred”, the Council said.

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