traffic now?

Goofy

Traffic is mental on bothar na treabh. Anyone know why?

snubbleste

Pedestrian, cyclist or motorist?

dilallio

Fridays are always bad, but there's a big funeral on in town also.

Goofy

Thanks. It has taken me over 40 mins to go from ballybrit industrial estate to within sight the headford road! this is no Friday traffic

KittyeeTrix

Funeral of Chick Deacy took place in Bohermore about an hour ago so traffic would be because of this.......

Stench Blossoms

I thought it might be the funeral. Never seen it as bad.

snubbleste

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

I thought it might be the funeral. Never seen it as bad.

How long are you living in galway?

Goofy

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

I thought it might be the funeral. Never seen it as bad.

Im only coming up to the bodkin roundabout now!!!

snubbleste

Are you in control of a vehickle and using your phone/laptop at the same time :eek:

Mrs OBumble

Still backed up to the morris RAB now .... back streets of Mervue clear though :-)

Storm 10

Guys the funeral was over at around 1pm this is just mental and to blame it on a funeral is not on, there is no traffic management in this City its a disgrace, traffic is blocked now into and out of Galway. Where are the Gardai at times like this, if the were out at the roundabouts and traffic lights it would not happen

Goofy

snubbleste wrote: »

Are you in control of a vehickle and using your phone/laptop at the same time :eek:

Seeing as it took me 1.5 hours to go less than 4kms, i think i was safe.

orangebud

Goofy wrote: »

Seeing as it took me 1.5 hours to go less than 4kms, i think i was safe.

took me 10 minutes on bike

snubbleste

The funeral is only a small reason and I think it was at St Augustine Church earlier.
Nuns Island is closed to traffic all day, therefore west-bound traffic is backing up University Road, causing traffic to back out to Terryland. There are other small roadworks around as well.
The new bridge has been clear all day and was as of 3pm :cool:

Doc Ruby

If only there was some way to pass by all the traffic through an outer part of Galway.

Still at least the bog cotton is safe.

nuac

Indeed Doc Ruby, as well as the integrity of the limestone landscape - i.e no holes allowed in it for bridge pylons thus Claregalway bypass prevented.

Most of the area from Galway up to Ballinrobe is limstone, but never mind

snubbleste

There's a traffic crash at the Shopping Centre roundabout as well

SlipperyPeople

took me two hours to get from ballybrit to knocknacarra nightmare.

takes the fun out of getting off early on a friday

Stevo11

Wish I'd read this earlier... In the thick of it now ... Ugh

GekkePrutser

hungoverbunny wrote: »

took me two hours to get from ballybrit to knocknacarra nightmare.

Ah that's just about my route... I think I might hang in to work for a while and actually do something with my time.

I've never taken that long (except maybe during the races). By the way I can recommend the (free) Inrix smartphone app for live traffic, it's got good traffic coverage of Galway, it shows a lot more roads than Google Maps's traffic service.

hungoverbunny

hungoverbunny wrote: »

took me two hours to get from ballybrit to knocknacarra nightmare.

takes the fun out of getting off early on a friday

Google suggests you should have been able to do a full lap of Lough Corrib in the same time (ie Ballybrit to Knocknacarra via Cong)

Stevo11

I was travelling east, its bumper to bumper going west from ballybrit to (at least) westside

Panthro

Is it still as bad does anyone know?
I'll be coming from Ballybrit and heading towards Rahoon.

foxy_19-89

still absolutely shocking apparently. Girlfriends father stuck on Tuam road for 40 mins, and he has yet to experience Westside, I have no doubt it's brutal too!

Neyite

Its still bad - just in the door now, 45 mins longer than usual

magentas

city centre was still very congested at 7pm. There was a road accident in Terryland and Nuns Island was closed for roadworks. Radio reports of terrible traffic in galway all evening and heard horror stories of people spending an hour/hour and a half to get into town for renmore/doughiska.

Most schools were off today too so town was very busy all day with families in shopping

magentas

Should be grand now though:D

Stevo11

The Q bridge bumper to bumper again going wesht

dilallio

I see from today's Indo that Minister O'Reilly had to abandon his car near the Menlo Park hotel last Friday, and walk to the hospital for a meeting.

HEALTH Minister Dr James Reilly had to abandon his car and walk for half-an-hour in the rain through traffic to reach a meeting with hospital bosses in Galway last Friday evening.
Dr Reilly was two hours late for the meeting and had to cancel another meeting to discuss funding with Galway Hospice.
A minor accident and roadworks were blamed for the heavy traffic, but former Mayor of Galway, Councillor Padraig Conneely, said such traffic delays were now becoming the norm.
"It is unfortunate that the minister was caught in the delay but now he knows what we have to endure in Galway on a daily basis," said the Fine Gael councillor.
"We need to build an outer bypass," he added.
Dr Reilly got out of his car near the Menlo Park Hotel and walked about a mile to University Hospital Galway.
It was raining at the time and it took the minister about half-an-hour to reach the hospital, where he was meeting the new CEO Bill Maher.
"The meeting was scheduled for 4pm, but it was nearer to 6pm when he got there," said Mr Conneely.
A planned meeting with officials from Galway Hospice later that evening had to be cancelled.

snubbleste

That should read:
Minister for Health sets an example of responsible travel - good for your wallet, good for your health.

He did not have to leave the car, he chose to do so :cool:

Stereomaniac

Touché. Yes. That's a very good point. The meeting with Galway Hospice officials can't have been that urgent either if it was cancelled because he was running late. My car broke down last year and now I walk and thumb everywhere, it's the only way to go now lads.

Robbo

I thought the Minister usually travelled in the co-pilots seat of the Millenium Falcon?

It can do Parkmore to Eyre Square in less than 12 parsecs, faster than a proselytising cyclist.

antoobrien

Christ on a bike, I was in Mumbai a couple of weeks ago and Galway traffic makes it look free flowing.

Nok1a

snubbleste wrote: »

That should read:
Minister for Health sets an example of responsible travel - good for your wallet, good for your health.

He did not have to leave the car, he chose to do so :cool:

you are dead right, lets ban all ministers from using any form of motorised transport, then we can hire extra staff to do the work that they should have done but couldnt because they didnt have time in between skipping from meeting to meeting.

snubbleste

Nok1a wrote: »

you are dead right, lets ban all ministers from using any form of motorised transport, then we can hire extra staff to do the work that they should have done but couldnt because they didnt have time in between skipping from meeting to meeting.

That's what teleconferencing is for.. there is a rumour that broadband has reached the west :cool:

galwaycyclist

Robbo wrote: »

I thought the Minister usually travelled in the co-pilots seat of the Millenium Falcon?

It can do Parkmore to Eyre Square in less than 12 parsecs, faster than a proselytising cyclist.

We'll have to get some signs put up on the traffic lights advertising this so.

swine

It doesn't matter, if it's not powered by your sweat, tears and sense of self-righteousness, it's just unacceptable on here.

snubbleste

Ah that's not true swine.
Motorists are equally as loved as all of god's creatures.

Iwannahurl

dilallio wrote: »

I see from today's Indo that Minister O'Reilly had to abandon his car near the Menlo Park hotel last Friday, and walk to the hospital for a meeting.

That will be seized on by those Waiting for Godot GCOB, I have no doubt.

Good for the Minister, though: the walk will do him good, and he's leading by example (as is Enda Kenny, who has walked to work at least once since becoming Taoiseach).

Nok1a

snubbleste wrote: »

That's what teleconferencing is for.. there is a rumour that broadband has reached the west :cool:

so tell me this, why do executives from all of the most successful companies in the world travel so much when they could just "teleconference"?:cool:

Iwannahurl

Robbo wrote: »

I thought the Minister usually travelled in the co-pilots seat of the Millenium Falcon?

It can do Parkmore to Eyre Square in less than 12 parsecs, faster than a proselytising cyclist.

A parsec is actually a unit of distance in astronomy: 3.26 Light Years, or 3.086x10^13 km.

Perhaps you need to watch a more erudite class of movie.

Iwannahurl

snubbleste wrote: »

Ah that's not true swine.
Motorists are equally as loved as all of god's creatures.

If god didn't want us to drive everywhere all the time, she wouldn't have given us so much carbon.

gordongekko

snubbleste wrote: »

That's what teleconferencing is for.. there is a rumour that broadband has reached the west :cool:

i dont know of any church in Galway that has that facility

galwaycyclist

Iwannahurl wrote: »

A parsec is actually a unit of distance in astronomy: 3.26 Light Years, or 3.086x10^13 km.

Perhaps you need to watch a more erudite class of movie.

Hmm but probably the Millenium falcon would still be faster than a bicycle over that distance - unless it was a Jedi bicycle!

antoobrien

Iwannahurl wrote: »

A parsec is actually a unit of distance in astronomy: 3.26 Light Years, or 3.086x10^13 km.

Perhaps you need to watch a more erudite class of movie.

And the reference in question is in relation to cutting it uncomfortably close to a black hole cluster, so time does come into it due to the distortion of space time near the event horizon.

It's a bit like saying "I almost managed to do a straight line between <insert ant two arbitrary points in Galway city with more than 100m distance between them> while using the roads".

Wompa1

Nok1a wrote: »

so tell me this, why do executives from all of the most successful companies in the world travel so much when they could just "teleconference"?:cool:

Executives enjoy great perks and expenses when travelling and tend to be part of the decision making process for whether or not they should travel to the site or not....that's what I'd say anyway

I have to travel sometimes for work but it's usually a first time meeting over a few days to hammer out processes and standards, to form a working relationship. Any other meeting after that would be done through conferencing via web and phone. It works fine. These people should be familiar with each other and most likely hold a yearly or twice yearly meeting to discuss things at length.

Nok1a

Wompa1 wrote: »

Executives enjoy great perks and expenses when travelling and tend to be part of the decision making process for whether or not they should travel to the site or not....that's what I'd say anyway

I have to travel sometimes for work but it's usually a first time meeting over a few days to hammer out processes and standards, to form a working relationship. Any other meeting after that would be done through conferencing via web and phone. It works fine. These people should be familiar with each other and most likely hold a yearly or twice yearly meeting to discuss things at length.

My point is that even efficent lean companies have staff who have to travel, not everything can be done via teleconference like was suggested.

Misters have to travel its part of their job and its not just an irish thing either, they need to talk to people on the ground see what impact their decisions are going to have. How do we not know that this wasnt one of the yearly / twice yearly meetings that you have?

antoobrien

Nok1a wrote: »

so tell me this, why do executives from all of the most successful companies in the world travel so much when they could just "teleconference"?:cool:

Wompa1 wrote: »

Executives enjoy great perks and expenses when travelling and tend to be part of the decision making process for whether or not they should travel to the site or not....that's what I'd say anyway

I have to travel sometimes for work but it's usually a first time meeting over a few days to hammer out processes and standards, to form a working relationship. Any other meeting after that would be done through conferencing via web and phone. It works fine. These people should be familiar with each other and most likely hold a yearly or twice yearly meeting to discuss things at length.

There are things that you just can't do effectively over teleconference or webconference e.g. eyeballing somebody to make sure they're up to the job, which would be a large part of the reason for somebody like Reilly traveling. You'd be amazed how important being seen to be taking notes is while you're talking to somebody. There's a level of interaction that just does not happen with teletech.

Even for large technology companies that have massive worldwide internal networks actually going to sites to meet the people you work with is important, from the personal and cultural points of view.

Wompa1

antoobrien wrote: »

There are things that you just can't do effectively over teleconference or webconference e.g. eyeballing somebody to make sure they're up to the job, which would be a large part of the reason for somebody like Reilly traveling. You'd be amazed how important being seen to be taking notes is while you're talking to somebody. There's a level of interaction that just does not happen with teletech.

Even for large technology companies that have massive worldwide internal networks actually going to sites to meet the people you work with is important, from the personal and cultural points of view.

Very well could be. It's also just as likely to be something that could be done via a teleconference though. I assume We'll never know.

Robbo

antoobrien wrote: »

And the reference in question is in relation to cutting it uncomfortably close to a black hole cluster, so time does come into it due to the distortion of space time near the event horizon.

It's a bit like saying "I almost managed to do a straight line between <insert ant two arbitrary points in Galway city with more than 100m distance between them> while using the roads".

That and Lucas ****ing loves retcon in these circumstances.

antoobrien

Wompa1 wrote: »

Very well could be. It's also just as likely to be something that could be done via a teleconference though. I assume We'll never know.

Given the amount of time I spend talking on the phone, emails & instant chat with people in the USA, UK, India & other locations and measuring it against what one actually gets from trips & face to face meetings I don't doubt for a second that a face to face meeting could be necessary.