CONTRACTS TO BE SIGNED FOR ICONIC CITY FOOTBRIDGE FOLLOWING REVISED COSTINGS

Date Published: 12-Nov-2012

Contracts are set to be signed next month [Dec] for the long-awaited restoration of the iconic fisheries tower city footbridge.

It follows a meeting of the Coporate Policy Group today [Nov 12] where revised quotations for the footbridge and watchtower at Wolfe Tone bridge were discussed.

City Cllr Padraig Conneely says the project is now revised from its initial estimate of 160 thousand euro to 125.

35 thousand of this is to be provided by the city council while the remainder will be funded by Inland Fisheries.

The bridge has been decommissioned since it became unsafe to use some three years ago.

Speaking to Galway Bay fm news, Cllr Padraig Conneely says it will form a key part of the city's tourism offering with an estimated completion timeframe of summer next year.