COUNCILLOR REILLY SEEKS REMOVAL OF TUAM BYPASS FROM TRANSPORT 21

Date Published: 24-Oct-2007

Galway Council is to write to the National Roads Authority and the Department of Transport asking them to take the Tuam by-pass out of Transport 21, so it will be built quicker.Councillor Tom Reilly wants it to be completed as a stand-alone project. He says if the bypass remains part of transport 21 work may not begin on it until 2011.Cllr Reilly's motion was passed with the support of Cllr Tom McHugh at this week's council meeting, to write to the NRA and Department of Transport requesting them to remove the Tuam bypass from Transport 21.