Road would destroy campus, says NUI Galway

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

Opposition to the road route proposals in the Galway City Transport Project was upped several gears last night with the news that NUI Galway will be objecting in the strongest possible terms to any developments which threaten its future.

In a strongly worded statement, the university said that the imposition of these routes would derail and disrupt past, present, and future developments and would render wasted decades of careful planning which have turned the university into one of the finest in Europe.

It said that the physical growth of the university has been carefully planned over many decades. A programme of land acquisition in Dangan had allowed the university to increase the area for new buildings while simultaneously acquiring space for sports facilities.

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