The delayed delivery of a €5 million signalised junction at Galway Clinic have been slammed this week as “yet another deadline missed by the City Council”.

The removal of the Martin Roundabout on the east side of the city was due to be completed in early August but it is now expected to be November before contractors leave the site.

Local Councillor Alan Cheevers (FF) said the project was causing huge disruption to residents in Doughiska and Roscam and cast doubts that the project would be completed before the end of the year.

“The contract was supposed to be completed by the first week of August, but anyone who had been seeing the works ongoing knew it wasn’t going to be.

“The Council gave councillors or local residents no notice that this delay was going to happen and to me, it’s just yet another deadline missed. Nothing seems to be delivered on time when it comes to the Galway Transport Strategy, whether its Park and Ride, the Kirwan Junction [at Menlo Park Hotel] or this,” said Cllr Cheevers.

Councillors were getting it in the neck for the slow progress of works, he said, “but the reality is that it’s up to the Council Executive and engineers to deliver and they have failed miserably”.

The Council has hit back at the criticism and Senior Transport Engineer, Uinsinn Finn, told the Galway City Tribune that supply chain issues in the construction sector were having an impact across the country.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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