N17 Claregalway Inner Relief Road

Noel Grealish as an Independent supporting the Government is now in a position to demand the money and get this started for him to continue supporting the feckers in power. Jackie Healey Rae makes his position work very well in kerry, so perhaps Noel could do the same, he'll never have to worry about being re-elected again if he manages it.;)

mayoimafriad wrote: »

Take Mayo for example, towns in the county were bypassed years ago, towns with relatively low traffic volumes, e.g Swinford, N5, was bypassed 16 years ago, back in 1993 and i dont know traffic counts for back then but going on what they are at present (8,000 tops) they must have being no more than 5,000 at the time (1993).

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Ballina???? where is the bypass please?

The provision of a bypass for Claregalway will take a significant step forward next month when the route options will be presented to the four local area councillors and a public meeting will be held in the village to coincide with this.
Members of the public will get an opportunity to examine the proposed routes after which an emerging preferred route will emerge and it is hoped that it will go to the compulsory purchase stage by late autumn.
The public meeting is scheduled to take place on June 15th at which four possible routes for the inner relief will be put on display and the public will be encouraged to make submissions on what they see to Galway County Council.
It is viewed as a very significant step forward in the provision of the much delayed bypass for the village-and also because of the fact that local business community were told by the previous Governent that an inner relief road would never be provided.
Residents were told that the proposed Gort to Tuam motorway would effectively be the Claregalway bypass and this caused a lot of local anger at the time.
But there have been considerable delays to the M17/M18 project which has, over the past six months, put the Claregalway bypass back on the agenda.
Galway West TD Noel Grealish has welcomed the news that a presentation of the suggested routes is to be made to the four councillors in the Oranmore Electoral Area and believes that the route selection process could be concluded by the end of the summer.
“This is part of the procedure for getting the road ready to the compulsory purchase order stage and it is another step in the right direction for this project”, Deputy Grealish added.
The Independent TD said that the consulting engineers along with Galway County Council were also preparing to give a public presentation to the residents and the business community in Claregalway.
“I have fought long and hard to have this relief road built around Claregalway, which has more than 30,000 vehicles passing through on a daily basis, and I am delighted that the project continues to make progress”, Deputy Grealish added.
“I am also calling on RPS Consulting Engineers to give a public presentation to the residents and business owners in Claregalway on the route selection and I am hoping that this will take place in early June.
“I have fought a long campaign to have this Relief Road built around Claregalway and I am delighted that the project continues to progrtess,” he said.
“This road is even more crucial now that the company selected to construct the new M17 has run into difficulty in securing finance to construct the new motorway.
“Given that the new M17 is unlikely to be built for many years, it is vitally important that the Claregalway inner Relief Road is constructed to give some relief to commuters, residents and business people within the village of Claregalway, which is one of the main bottlenecks along the N17,” Deputy Grealish concluded.

by Declan Tierney, Connacht Tribune

I have plans for the Claregalway Inner Relief Road. I thought they were the final plans, why the hell does this have to go to Route Options and Public Consultation?

This country needs a fast-track method of construction. Call it "Critical National Infrastructure" or something like that.

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

I have plans for the Claregalway Inner Relief Road. I thought they were the final plans, why the hell does this have to go to Route Options

Because different options will have different benefits and costs. The cheapest isn't always the best and vice versa.

and Public Consultation?

Becuase those planning the road don't know everything.

This country needs a fast-track method of construction. Call it "Critical National Infrastructure" or something like that.

This usually went on in a certain tent nearer Galway.

What paper did you see this in? I didn't see in the Connacht Tribune.

Thanks...found it.

MYOB wrote: »

Unlike Foras na Gaelige et al, some of us recognise that Claregalway has no reason to be in a pretendy Gaeltacht. And indeed it won't be if the proposals to revise boundaries go through, because virtually nobody there speaks Irish at all, let alone as their first language.

Interesting enough there is a greater percentage of people who are daily/weekly speakers of Irish (outside of Education) in Oranmore then in Claregalway (15% vs. 12.6%). Most of speakers in Claregalway area are old. The language shift occurred in the last 50 years. My sister who lives out there says the "old people" have beautiful Irish. Thing is they didn't pass it onto their children. The number of Dailyspeakers is 194. Anyways all the Category C areas would be removed, too few resources been spread over to wide an area.

Thankfully they dropped the 6 other roundabouts i saw in the original draft.

dubhthach wrote: »

Indeed well the original draft plan was very much "developer centric" and was tied in with rezoning vast swathes of land around the village for development "Celtic Tiger" style.

Most of the roundabout exits looked more like the entrances to Atlantis .:D

I'd rather they brought it onto the N63 and made two proper junctions for the N17/N63 & the bypass off the N63, but as plans go it's not bad