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The Galway City Ring Road took another significant step this week. Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers has confirmed that the project is expected to be included in the first block of roughly 10 schemes nationwide to be designated as critical infrastructure under legislation passed by the Dáil last month, with water, energy and transport prioritised in this initial round. For a project that has spent more than two decades in planning, this development changes the landscape in ways worth understanding.

After more than two decades of false starts, legal battles and planning setbacks, the announcement that stopped Galway in its tracks arrived quietly last Thursday morning. An Coimisiún Pleanála granted approval for the N6 Galway City Ring Road, bringing to an end a process that had been mired in delays for over 20 years. For those of us working in property in the west, this is not merely a transport story. It is, potentially, the most consequential planning decision for Galway's housing market in a generation.

This argument is dubious at best, and simply not supported by the data in the GCRR submission, which is currently before An Coimisiún Pleanála (formerly An Bord Pleanála).

An Bord Pleanála (ABP) has asked the ring road project managers at Galway County Council to re-advertise their planning application for the route from Coolagh to the R336 Coast Road, and open it up to public consultation.

The controversial Galway City Ring Road will not cost €650 million as originally estimated, but is more likely to cost €1 billion by the time it is eventually built.

The Galway City Ring road is not the "silver bullet" that will solve the transport challenges facing Galway, but it will "take traffic out of the city", enable public transport improvements, and "reduce the time" workers and visitors spend getting around the city.