One thing to improve Galway?

Make Tesco 24 hour again

ErnieBert wrote: »

Get rid of Tesco.

Dunnes Stores. The difference is we're Irish.

Our stores are badly organised, with a limited range of products. We treat our staff badly, knowing that's how they'll learn to treat our customers. And we charge plenty for our products. We're old fashioned - it's only recently that our staff stopped having to call managers Mr So-and-so.


Get rid of Tesco? Yeah, right.

ErnieBert wrote: »

Get rid of Tesco.

And Argos.
And Currys.
And McDonald's.

I understand you're anti-multinational stance, give me McDonaghs over McDonalds anyday But the removal of these franchises/multinationals is not an answer to any problem, social, economical or even nutritional. Influencing and encouraging shifts in policy might be a better idea

Only allow Bongo drums between 11.00 and 15.00, also require license (might raise a bit of revenue as well as reducing overall bongo levels).

Not opposed to an outer by-pass in principle, but can't help but feel it wouldn't solve any problems, it would just move them. I'm not convinced that many vehicles crossing the Corrib want to by-pass the city completely (after all Connemara isn't exactly densely populated). The city centre is already by-passed, problem is there's loads of development along the by-pass route. Same **** would happen with a new one. A new by-pass also probably just lead to new bottle necks on access roads tom and from it. E.g. what ever the shortest/quest route from the by-pass to NUIG/ The Hospital would choked with traffic at rush hour.

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

Demolish all the buildings in Salthill and start again.

Seriously who the hell gave planning permission to all the architectural atrocities?

Yeah it's a disaster other than the Prom itself. Hardly any places between the round-a-bout and Blackrock were you can get a drink, coffee, meal with a sea view. Doing so outside is even harder. Instead you have a few derelict hotels, an unopened cinema(?) a refugee centre (is this still open), crazy golf, hotel car parks. There is a decent park which looks Victorian to me and an other park which is quite nice but barely used.

Given a blank cheque I'd put the road under ground, also all the parking. Open up the area which is now the road and parking to restaurant terraces (covered obviously) and other amenities.

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

Only allow Bongo drums between 11.00 and 15.00, also require license (might raise a bit of revenue as well as reducing overall bongo levels).

Not opposed to an outer by-pass in principle, but can't help but feel it wouldn't solve any problems, it would just move them. I'm not convinced that many vehicles crossing the Corrib want to by-pass the city completely (after all Connemara isn't exactly densely populated). The city centre is already by-passed, problem is there's loads of development along the by-pass route. Same **** would happen with a new one. A new by-pass also probably just lead to new bottle necks on access roads tom and from it. E.g. what ever the shortest/quest route from the by-pass to NUIG/ The Hospital would choked with traffic at rush hour.

The main problem is the bridges over the Corrib. All the traffic is funnelled through them and as we know they are all fairly close together. A bypass with a bridge farther out is needed. People living and working on opposite sides of the city would not need to go into the middle of the city to get to work/home. I'd say that this would help Galway enormously. Maybe the public transport system could then be improved in the inner arteries of the city?


Outer Bypass +1

Bypass from Salthill / docklands to Oranmore for traffic
A pedestrianized bridge built parallel to the existing bridge at the cathedral (Death trap) to the court house
Redo Eyre Square and bring it back to what it was like in the 90s
Have a Death Ray attached to the roof of Bank of Ireland and evaporate any scum bags loitering and begging for money.

Iwannahurl wrote: »

There is something in what you say. This is what the proposed Bypass is for, according to the Connacht Sentinel (3rd December 2013):







In the same spirit, I suggest that a by-law be passed which would make home schooling compulsory. See above for rationale.

Hmm...There's way too much school related traffic in Galway, I used to cycle 3 km work past various primary schools on the west side of the city. Each had traffic jams outside them. These were older parts of the city so perhaps the kids didn't live locally and were being transported from newer areas without enough school places. Anyway in a city surely most kids should be able to walk to school.

Also there's apparently significantly less traffic during school holidays. How will an outer by-pass reduce school related traffic.

The Quincentenary bridge was the outer-by-pass of its day, now it's just an other bottle neck.

Naux wrote: »

Yep, the Quincentenary was the outer-by-pass of it's day............... but Galway has gotten bigger and busier. Imagine the city today if we did not have the Quincentenary "bottleneck".

As you say four Bridges haven't solved the traffic. I admire people's faith in a fifth one. However you'll forgive me if I lack faith in our local and national government because of there propensity for bad planning and execution. the new bridge won't be much use if there's an entrance to mega-mall at one end
And the only exit for the University, The hospital and NUIGALWAY at the other.

antoobrien wrote: »

Newcaslte, & Tirellan existed long before the QB was planned, so how the f**k could this ever have been an "outer bypass".

Ahh, because it goes through the outer suburbs, and is a long way outside the inner city.

There's no rule that says an outer-bypass has to go right outside everything that already exists.


FWIW, even I support an additional bridge, becuase the system at the moment is just so fragile: if something happens on the Quin, then the whole city snarls up.

antoobrien wrote: »

Newcaslte, & Tirellan existed long before the QB was planned, so how the f**k could this ever have been an "outer bypass".

Revisionism at it's finest.

A) The quincentenary Bridge does 'by-pass' the city centre.
I meant 'the outer by-pass of its day' as in it being hailed as the solution to traffic problems. I'm sure the guy cutting the ribbon it wasn't basking in the reflected glory of opening a new bottleneck.

Enjoy the new ring road when it happens (I think it probably will eventually). It may alleviate traffic for a bit. I'm just skeptical because the only city I've been in for any lenght of time that didn't have serious traffic jams was in Switzerland. I can see Galway is littered with nonsensical planning decisions. Plus generally poor planning. A prime example is putting the GAA stadium West of the Corrib when 90% of the fans are access the city from the east. Additional roads seldom solve traffic problems in the long term, given Galway's record I wouldn't bank on an outer by-pass bmaking much of a difference.

Bike parking on every street similar to the car parking provision in the city.
Outdoor market similar to the Milk Market in Limerick - convert one of the surface car parks like Mill Street or Bowling Green for this.

A second public Swimming Pool/Leisure facility.
Even if Leisureland is reopened a significant portion of the population of the city and county would be better served by a pool on the East side of the county.

Spring Onion wrote: »

I think the perfect spot is near the head of the river. Near Menlo/Glenlo.
The whole southern end of Lough Corrib is surprisingly shallow and has good bedrock so you could easily build a road there too. The northern part of Lough Corrib is very deep so no chance.

Id imagine there must be some conservation there with the heritage etc. Also, we cant devalue the politicians houses in menlo and glenlo / moycullen now can we.

Sarcasm is lost on some people!!!