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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.

A private contractor is to commence maintenance of the roundabouts and approach roads in Oranmore.

Traffic congestion in the Newcastle area is likely to ease somewhat next week with the completion of works on University Road. However works on the Quincentenary Bridge, the main artery across the city and the main bottleneck during this week’s peak time congestion, are due to continue until mid-October.

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.

Members of Kilkenny County Council have approved the plans to construct a roundabout at Hennebry’s Cross on the Castlecomer Road and Ballyragget Road junction.

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”.

If the city’s roundabouts are to go, then zebra crossings would be a more effective and less costly way to protect pedestrians and get traffic moving, not signalised junctions.