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MAJOR TRAFFIC DISRUPTIONS are expected in Galway city centre this afternoon following the collapse of a drainage culvert at a street junction.
Galway City Council has shut off Flood Street, St Augustine Street, and Middle Street in the vicinity of Spanish Arch while engineering crews deal with the issue.
The closures are expected to affect traffic in the city to a major extent in the coming hours.
Galway Bay FM reports that the city council are hopeful of completing the necessary repair work by the end of the day, but this may prove problematic as the maintenance required involves the sourcing and installation of specialist steel plates.
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Galway, a great place for the hole.
Pictures?
If you have seen one hole you have seen them all.
Why bother when you can do a screenshot from google maps?
Not even a copy and paste of a tweet.
How are Irish water supposed to identify buried culverts that are weak or under designed by someone in times gone by? One off accidents line this happen from time to time in every country in the world.
You’d cover the hole with a newspaper. Was there 6 hrs ago and it had a sheet of metal over it amd a bit of new tar. Cars can still drive by it. Not exactly big but probably just closed off as a precaution. Open to traffoc by then.
*and a bit of new tar
They’re going to suspend looking into it for a few months.
Absolutely appalling neglect in this day and age.
What is Irish Water doing with our money?
Should be a Tribunal into the matter immediately.
A hole has appeared in a street in Galway…IW will look into it at some time going forward….or maybe they wont…….
Money doesn’t necessarily give them the ability to predict the appearance of holes, does it?
Nearly as funny as the cruise ship !
sure why not blame it on irish water
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