Someone buy this Man a Pint!

churchview wrote: »

Now if only he could bring back Pierrepoint and hang those who keep objecting to this and other needed and positive developments in Galway

Bring back Niall O'Bollockone to be hanged by the other:D

But what about the snails, moss and sea monsters that will suffer?

Bus lanes should only be allowed to operate at times or locations when there are plenty of busses using them. It is insane to allocate so much space to non existent busses. Far from encouraging driver to change to busses it just makes them more determined to use the cars that they pay a fortune to own & run.

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

They want a bus lane over Quincentennial, despite the fact that NOT ONE SINGLE BUS SERVICE goes that way currently.

Well if I was king, there would be an outer-orbiter bus going over it once every 10-15 minutes (more at peak times) in either direction!

They tried peak hour bus lanes in Cork with parking allowed at other times. Unsurprisingly noone moved their cars during the peak hour and not a damn car was towed.

It would also mean you can get from Knocknacarra to the Dublin road in 10 minutes almost guaranteed.

Bypass will be 10 minutes approx.

Well, more accurately it'll be about 18km from the Cappagh Road to the end of the bypass at the M6. Ok this does include the refused western part of the route but whatever new one they come up with cant be much longer.

100kmh limit (as the bypass wont be motorway) : works out at about 12 minutes.

Not bad, anytime of day or night

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Then the greens will decide this normallyempty bus lane is a great success and will probably want a bus lane all the way to bloody Briarhill and will happily dig up and gridlock the town up for the next two years while they install it

The greens are actually one of the biggest obstacles to a successful public transport system in Galway because they have the attitude you described above.

They really think that throwing down a few bus and cycle lanes in random places will solve the traffic gridlock in what is the main city in the West of Ireland. It's a crazy attitude!

Let us start with East Galway City - 28 trains with absolutely loads of spare capacity passing through stationless Oranmore and stationless Renmore everyday. A pathetic station with no passing loop and only 100 parking spaces is being planned for Oranmore. 100 spaces when the NRA are saying there will be 52,000 (26,000 x 2) cars on the M6 at Oranmore everyday in as little as 3 years time.
There are 5,000 people living in Renmore alone, thousands more if you include other surrounding areas. But no station is planned for Renmore which has 28 trains passing through everyday; instead a station is being planned for the town of Crusheen which has, I think, a population of only 700.

Proper stations in Oranmore and Renmore along with proper connecting bus services would do more to reduce traffic in East Galway City than any number of bus or cycle lanes ever could.

Niall O'Brolochain comes out with crazy suggestions to solve the traffic problems such as putting a bus lane on the Dock Road and having a cycle lane from Barna to Oranmore. I would need to see traffic counts for the Dock Road but I reckon that the guts of 10,000 people would need to switch from car to bus in order for traffic to be better along that road having turned one of the lanes into a bus lane. It would be doomed to failure; even if people were willing to switch, would there be enough spare capacity on the bus routes in question?? And Niall seems to have forgotten that there is already a cycle lane the majority of the way from Barna to Ballybrit. By all means, extend it to Oranmore but if we are to be realistic, it's not going to have a huge impact on traffic with Galway weather.

When Ireland starts coming out of this recession, Galway will get left behind because of our bad traffic problems and utterly shite public transport. Dublin, Limerick, Waterford and to a lesser degree, Cork have all made substantial improvements to their road networks recently. The improvements in these other cities will have positive knock-on effects to public transport (i.e. - buses services will be faster and more reliable). In stark contrast, Galway is still without a bypass, the rail issue in Oranmore and Renmore still isn't sorted and we have the same old rubbish city bus service. Who in their right mind would invest in Galway during any economic upturn?

All the junctions bar the one at the Western Distributor Road and Barna will be dumbell style GSJs, so you can fly it. Those two wont have the traffic to warrent GSJs either.

That was the original plan, yes.

http://www.galway.ie/en/Services/RoadsTransportation/RoadProjects/n6_outer/intermap.htm

Not sure whats happening as everything west of the GSJ just west of the Corrib got turned down by ABP. Apparently the NRA have other route options but they're not public.