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The elected members of Mayo County Council agreed to indefinitely defer the adoption of a preferred route for the N59 Ballina to Crossmolina this week.

It is anticipated that construction on the new Garrycastle Bridge will commence within the next three years, while the Abbey Road sewer should be completed within the same period.

Iarnród Éireann have announced that the opening of the Ennis to Athenry line, which will also deliver direct Limerick to Galway services, is now scheduled to take place in March.

Work on the proposed M17 from Gort to the north of Tuam, and including the Tuam town bypass, will begin in November and should be completed in 2014.

The N6 Kilbeggan to Athlone national road scheme which was officially opened this week, is great news for business in the midland and west regions, it was claimed at the opening.

The decentralisation of the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to Charlestown is secure, and funding for the Western Rail Corridor is on track.

Transport 21 is supporting and boosting the tourism industry in Galway by providing better roads, trains, and regional airports, according to Minister for Transport, Noel Dempsey.

Tourists to Galway and the west last year spent almost a billion euro in the region, and new transport links can help ensure that sort of spend is maintained, Transport Minister Noel Dempsey said this week.

Residents of Ballybar and Linkardstown are so worried that open ground near the new bridges off the N9 will attract an encampment, that they have written to the National Roads Authority to make sure it doesn’t.

These are the first photos of what could be the future of transport in Galway city, the €200 million light rail system to be known as GLUAS.