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On Tuesday the contract for the N18 Gort to Crusheen Dual Carriageway – Design Build Contract was signed in County Buildings in Prospect Hill.

The opening of the new M9 Kilcullen to Carlow motorway project was a low key affair that went ahead without ribbon cutting or ministerial pontification.

Local Fine Gael councillor John Naughten has raised concerns over the re-designation of the Athlone bypass as motorway and the effect it will have on road users and development in the area.

Mulranny Independent Councillor Michael Holmes has criticised the Government for cutting the National Roads Authority's budget for 2009 by €216 million.

A new 40 kilometre stretch of motorway, which is set to knock twenty minutes off journey times between Dublin and Cork, opened on Monday.

Residents in Lisheenkyle, Castlelambert and Raheen have to contend with burst tyres and damaged vehicles because of the poor state of local roads.

The Gort railway station is “one of the most significant stages” of the Western Rail Corridor, that’s according to the chairman of the Oireachtas Transport Committee, Frank Fahey, who welcomed the news that an objection lodged with An Bord Pleanála has now been withdrawn.

Almost €71 million has been allocated by the National Roads Authority for improvements to Westmeath’s national primary and secondary roads in the coming year.

“A complete waste of public money” is how Independent Cllr Thomas Welby has described a €300,000 allocation from the National Roads Authority to review the Moycullen bypass.

Clifden should be the subject of a special study on Government neglect, particularly the neglect of key infrastructural investment, which is threatening the town’s tourist industry.