No limit to spread of housing as a city bursts its seams

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2004 / November 9 2004: No limit to spread of housing as a city bursts its seams

Galway can barely cope with the explosive growth it has experienced since the mid-1990s. The city has long since burst its seams. Its ring road is gridlocked almost every day, and the Headford Road roundabout has become known as the "Roundabout from Hell". With plans to extend new development to the east along the "Ardaun Corridor" to house 18,000 new residents and yet more hi-tech business parks, and a new outer ring road also in the pipeline, the city's suburbs will stretch more than 30 miles from Athenry to Spiddal and northwards to Tuam.

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