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They just couldn’t leave it alone, could they? It was there tempting them for many years. They stopped and stared at it, wondering what a mess it was, how it could be solved. And this week, they went for the jugular.

The new junction at Briarhill is to open on Thursday December 8 and City Hall believes it will make a significant difference to motorists with fewer delays and allowing traffic to flow more freely.

Providing some form of traffic management at the bottom of Killyon Hill is not at the top of Athlone Town Council’s list of priorities at present, it has emerged.

Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane is calling for roundabouts in Castlebar to revert to standard. A long campaigner on this issue, she insists that people have had enough, that this is a road safety issue and it’s time to bring Castlebar roundabouts in line with the rest of the country. She is seeking the backing of members of Castlebar Town Council at the next council meeting for this issue to be addressed once and for all.

Newcastle Road will be closed to vehicular traffic wishing to access or cross the N6 at various times from next Tuesday to Saturday.

Newcastle Road will be closed to vehicular traffic wishing to access or cross the N6 at various times from next Tuesday to Saturday.

Galway motorists are in for a “long-suffering winter and New Year” of traffic delays, disruptions, and congestion “hundreds of time worse” than what they experience now, when work starts on replacing seven of the city’s roundabouts with signalised junctions.

As Galway plans to rid itself of roundabouts, a roadside survey of motorist behaviour at some of Dublin’s busiest roundabouts by Continental Tyres shows that drivers often ignore the rules of the road and show woeful levels of knowledge of correct etiquette at roundabouts.

A roadside survey of motorist behaviour at some of the country’s busiest roundabouts shows that drivers often ignore the rules of the road and show woeful levels of knowledge of correct etiquette at roundabouts.

Ridding Galway of most of its roundabouts and replacing them with signalised junctions, similar to that at Moneenageisha, is nothing more than a plan to repeat a “failed experiment”.