The bus stop was erected under the Ballybane-Castlepark Road active travel scheme.<\/p>\n
Residents immediately took to social media showing pictures of the newly constructed signpost in the middle of the pedestrian and vehicle entrance to An Cul\u00e1n housing estate.<\/p>\n
Galway City Council confirmed the pole was taken down within a week of its debut on Thursday, March 12.<\/p>\n
A council spokesperson told the Irish Independent that the bus stop was put there by mistake however, the work was \u201cnot carried out by Galway City Council, nor any contractor working on its behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n
What is planned for that junction, council officials said, is a stop sign for vehicular traffic outside the housing estate which will be installed \u201cin the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additionally, the stop sign will not be directly affecting pedestrian or vehicle traffic to any location.<\/p>\n
The Ballybane-Castlepark project has been a source of mounting frustration as it nears completion, with elected representatives saying many of the issues now emerging could have been addressed before work began.<\/p>\n
The new road layout does not include bus pull-in areas, meaning car traffic must wait behind commuter buses as they stop to pick up and drop off passengers. Because the road was built to national design guidelines, some larger bus services are also navigating narrower carriageways.<\/p>\n