I've been reading through the decision to grant planning permission for the Galway City Ring Road and it includes some extraordinary creative accounting to justify the spending of €1bn on a project that will make traffic worse, not better, in Galway.

Essentially An Coimisiún Pleanala has decided not to deal with the road in isolation but as part of the ten-year-old Galway Transport Strategy and it makes the following assertion:

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