Pothole alert as County Hall braced for massive road-repair bill

WITH the second largest road network of any county in the country, Galway Co Council is bracing itself for a massive repair bill once the rains ease.
Engineers are keeping their finders crossed in the hope that the current flooding is not followed by freezing conditions which would inflict further damage on a network already under strain.
Galway has 6,579 km of roads, the vast majority the 5,333 km of local roads the council has to maintain. There are 810 km of regional roads; 290 km of National Secondary; 84 km of National Primary and 62 km of motorway.
Mike Donnellan of Town & Country Garage, Tuam, told The Tuam Herald that motorists should prepare themselves for damaged road surfaces once the flooding has receded.