Road Improvement Works Contract Awarded

Mayo-based contractor John Madden & Sons have been appointed by Galway City Council to undertake the first phase of road improvement works on the N6.

The contract includes the excavation of 63 slit trenches on roads, footways, cycleways, verges, green areas and roundabout central islands along approximately 6.2 km of national road (N6) to determine type, number, location and depth of services.

Also required will be 8 trial holes to be excavated, 7 California bearing ratio tests are to be carried out and 1 dynamic probing of ground at the foot of an embankment. It is expected that the contractor will take on the role of PSCS and the contractor will be responsible for traffic management along a heavily trafficked route.


This phase consists of the refurbishment of the N6/N59 (Newcastle Road) junction to improve pedestrian and cycle facilities. This phase will also involve replacing the current traffic lights at the Newcastle end of the Quincentenary Bridge in order to integrate them with the Urban Traffic Management Centre. Sections of the footways and cycle-ways along the N6 between the Browne (UHG) and Font Roundabouts (Tuam Road) will also be resurfaced.

The project is expected to be complete by late October 2011.

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