M6 - Galway City Ring Road [planning approved]

Does the ACP send information by email? The one application I was a party to that went to them, I only got communication in the post. Same with two local authorities where I've made observations over the last couple of years. It's all been snail mail only, no email except for the receipt, I think.

Having been an original observer to two planning applications appealed to ABP, all comms were on paper.

I didn't do the appeals - another observer did for one, and the applicant for the other!

The suspense is killing me!! Although in reality even if approved it's bound to be mired in appeals and legal challenges for several more years, which is disappointing.

I've been looking at the route maps recently, I noticed there was some construction activity around the two boarded up houses on the Tuam Road N83, beside where the proposed ring road would intersect, which I believe will be a new housing estate?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vimKJRDL4oPQr3v47

I looked at ACP website and couldn't find any decisions area. They do offer access to decisions (and the reports which supported the decision) but won't tell you when they have reached a decision. They could release decisions on their website, say, a week after the decisions were posted.

This is great news. Lets get JCBs to work

The dream of being able to get from Dublin to Barna in 100minutes is a day closer

Timed to coincide with the new critical infrastructure bill to try avoid this no doubt https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/04/08/new-critical-infrastructure-laws-will-block-climate-based-legal-challenges/

Fantastic news today. Finally some sense.

Go hiontach

198 pages and almost 18 years since I first posted this thread, its interesting to see the third iteration of this road approved.

Friends of the Irish Environment (an absolute bunch of stirrers - Peter Sweetmans lot) are already whipping up a frenzy. There will be guaranteed JRs to this, its just inevitable. But it still just simply needs to happen (and a lot more besides, in Galway).

Yes, that's why this has to be the first stage of tackling traffic in Galway, not the final stage

They can't enable the required bus corridors in Galway city, without taking traffic out of the city. To do this, they need a new road.

Galway has geographical blockers, as well as facing issues related to the size of our streets. These can't be easily overcome.

But if you take all the cars out of the city who dont need to be there, it will allow for a transformation of the city infrastructure.

Without the relocation of those cars, nothing can or will happen in Galway city

The traffic getting worse per projections is not casued by the ring road, its casued by population growth, which is happening anyway and will be even worse on current trajectory.

There are two solutions to traffic congestion in Galway - outer ring road and the provision of a fast eficeint public transport service alongside development of sustainable high density city living option, or return population and employment levels in and around the city to 1985 levels, when the current transport infrastructure was put in place.

The year is 2056. Galway traffic is worse than ever. Galway City Council insists that the long-awaited New Outer Bypass (from An Spidéal to Athenry) will finally relieve the infamous congestion on the Ring Road, solving the city’s traffic woes once and for all. The Council insists that after the NOB is completed in 2067 it will be possible to consider improvements to public transport and active travel in the city centre (funding permitting). It also promises to publish the Galway Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy as soon as a planning decision has been made on the separate New Outer Bypass Relief Road, seen as critical to relieving projected congestion on the New Outer Bypass.