What does Galway need?

danube

If you wanted some business set up in Galway, What would it be?
What does Galway not have that other places has?

gally74

danube wrote: »

If you wanted some business set up in Galway, What would it be?
What does Galway not have that other places has?

A decent road around the place

snubbleste

Hello caller
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72529090

danube

snubbleste wrote: »

Hello caller
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72529090

That thread is four years old.

stampydmonkey

Concert Venue and Proper Sports Arena, 50m pool and running track

Asmodean

Definitely agree with the concert venue. I'm sure there's genuine reasons as to why one doesn't exist here but I always felt like the place was crying out for a decent large scale venue. I know the black box has some decent shows butThe TF in castlebar hosts a good few large acts, shame we couldn't have similar artists play here.

sgthighway

Ikea

Crumbs868

Nicer more positive attitude from some online posters?

Is that possible?

ben.schlomo

Less of the same threads.

biko

Galway needs a Maoz falafel place with buffet veg. I'd eat there every day

ronnie3585

Musashi.

s8n

Less crustys

tightropetom

:rolleyes: More coffee shops. If it's one thing Galway needs it's at least 40 more coffee shops. There just aren't enough...

dr.bollocko

snubbleste wrote: »

Hello caller
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72529090

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Less of the same threads.

s8n wrote: »

Less crustys

tightropetom wrote: »

:rolleyes: More coffee shops. If it's one thing Galway needs it's at least 40 more coffee shops. There just aren't enough...

More people trying to ruin all local online discussion by moaning, nitpicking and generally killing any sense of community that was ever there.

s8n

tightropetom wrote: »

:rolleyes: More coffee shops. If it's one thing Galway needs it's at least 40 more coffee shops. There just aren't enough...

Would attract more crustys, hardly a good idea

Links234

An airport

Links234

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Musashi.

The restaurant, or the famous historical figure?

ronnie3585

Links234 wrote: »

The restaurant, or the famous historical figure?

Neither. The battleship.

Wompa1

Church of Scientology

empacher

Nandos

D Trent

A H&M store and a big one
Not like the joke of a H&M store in Athlone that doesn't do menswear

rossie1977

it's a town that relies on tourism so build stuff that tourists will spend money on
e.g

* a theme park (indoor if need be)
* 4-5 star casino/hotel resort on the edge of town, somewhere like just past salthill. you could easily incorporate a modern 5,000 seat concert/sports arena within that facility.

a wetherspoons in the middle of town wouldn't go amiss either

Gadgetman496

A Crematorium

D Trent

rossie1977 wrote: »

it's a town that relies on tourism so build stuff that tourists will spend money on
e.g


* 4-5 star casino/hotel resort on the edge of town, somewhere like just past salthill. you could easily incorporate a modern 5,000 seat concert/sports arena within that facility.

http://www.sjk.ie/index.php?id=47

There's plans for that minus the arena/concert venue

muppetkiller

Nandos and an actual Hi-Fi store !!!

JONJO THE MISER

A good high quality all you can eat buffet.

Mrs OBumble

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

A good high quality all you can eat buffet.

Less uses of contradictions-in-terms.

Stevolende

Had always hoped they'd open a branch of Lush would hope there was the market for that kind of thing here. Though Flame crashed earlier this year.

A decent cheap fabric place. Would be nice if somebody would sell a wider variety of stuff for prices one could afford better. The girls in Hickeys are really great but could really do with the wider variety. Though not sure if anybody still has fabric emporiums, seem to have vanished from London too.
Would love cheap availability of Waxed cotton and other ethnic andmore colourful designs.

Would love a branch of FOPP but don't know if Dublin has one even.

honeypops74

better hurlers

L'Enfer du Nord

A decent interface between the train station and the city centre. Unlike other Irish cities the station is slap bang in the middle of the city, but Jesus Christ, with most passengers exiting the station on the north side past a load of bus queues on a narrow footpath its like Calcutta on a Friday afternoon.

dinneenp

Public art gallery (like The Crawford in Cork)

L'Enfer du Nord

D Trent wrote: »

http://www.sjk.ie/index.php?id=47

There's plans for that minus the arena/concert venue

Good god. I thought Spinaker II was bad until I saw Spinaker I. Just something incongruous about having an 'iconic' building like that next to a caravan park.

http://www.sjk.ie/index.php?id=46




Just a personal opinion but I don't think there should be any high rise past the golf club. If there was/is a master-plan to develop the whole area OK maybe, but that building would look so out of place on its own next 1970s low rise housing, caravan park, driving range and mudflats. Salthill itself could do with improvements to the seafront. Not really many places you can have a coffee/meal/pint with a sea view.

nuac

More reasonably well paid jobs

Utopia Parkway

Monorail.

GalwayGrrrrrl

An indoor science centre like W5 or Imaginosity. There is nothing like it nearby and it would be great for kids on rainy days. Would also give another option for parents looking for birthday party venues.

intellectual dosser

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

A decent interface between the train station and the city centre. Unlike other Irish cities the station is slap bang in the middle of the city, but Jesus Christ, with most passengers exiting the station on the north side past a load of bus queues on a narrow footpath its like Calcutta on a Friday afternoon.

I think this is in the works, but you can probably brace yourself for a 202X delivery.

Links234

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Monorail.

It'd sure put us on the map!

All joking aside, having used a couple of monorails they're pretty great. Most recently the one in Seattle, but that's more of a tourist thing than something practical. They're used all over Japan and in a lot of other Asian countries, and they make a lot of sense in urban areas, especially suspended monorails that are held up by a series of pillars or bridges and can easily have stations in larger buildings like shopping malls or the like. It would be quite practical in Galway as there wouldn't be as much of a 'footprint' required as a rail system, something like the Urban Flyer in Chiba would be a great example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STRz0gjCMsw

It's pretty damn cool.

The one in Tokyo was awesome too, you get an amazing view of the bay. Monorails are also great for small scale transport, airports and the like, there's one in Ueno Zoo for example, basically covering small, high volume areas. There's an awful lot to be said for a monorail in Galway, but we'd hit a snag fairly early on...

Galway isn't Chiba, and it certainly isn't Tokyo or Osaka or Fukuoka or anywhere else that has a monorail. We've got what, a population of 75k in the city? Chiba has over 950k. Looking at smaller cities, Wuppertal in Germany has a suspension monorail that dates back to 1903, but they have a population of 342k and the amount of people riding the monorail per day is 80k according to wikipedia.

Tbh, it's as big a pie in the sky as a GLUAS or whatever.

Mantis Toboggan

A few decent petrol stations/shops very few around the city. Castlebar puts it to shame.

flazio

stampydmonkey wrote: »

Concert Venue and Proper Sports Arena, 50m pool and running track

There is one out on Westside is there not?

bearclaire

What Does Galway Need-

Exceptance and Appreciation
Galway is Wonderful

stampydmonkey

flazio wrote: »

There is one out on Westside is there not?

There is and in dangan but would be nice to have a centre with them all together

Mrs OBumble

Links234 wrote: »

It'd sure put us on the map!

All joking aside, having used a couple of monorails they're pretty great. Most recently the one in Seattle, but that's more of a tourist thing than something practical. They're used all over Japan and in a lot of other Asian countries, and they make a lot of sense in urban areas, especially suspended monorails that are held up by a series of pillars or bridges and can easily have stations in larger buildings like shopping malls or the like. ...


Galway isn't Chiba, and it certainly isn't Tokyo or Osaka or Fukuoka or anywhere else that has a monorail. We've got what, a population of 75k in the city?

Sydney is a lot bigger than Galway, and they couldn't sustain theirs.

Mantis Toboggan

bearclaire wrote: »

What Does Galway Need-

Exceptance and Appreciation
Galway is Wonderful

Keep burying the head in the sand Claire.

Crumbs868

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Sydney is a lot bigger than Galway, and they couldn't sustain theirs.

That's a sweeping statement!

There were bigger issues like poor planning and crazy high fares behind Sydney's problems

Wompa1

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Sydney is a lot bigger than Galway, and they couldn't sustain theirs.

From the time I spent in Sydney it's much like the city I'm in now, Phoenix. It's a huge urban sprawl. Phoenix also has a light rail that's not doing too good. The area is too big to cover. The light rail is slower than a car but quicker than a bus. The buses here and in Sydney are useless.

You need a car in those big spread out cities.

I took the light rail and bus in Sydney and have a lot of family from Sydney, born and raised. They drive. The train from the main station in Sydney goes out to many of the cities\towns out in the sprawls but again, that takes forever with all of the stops.

I think Galway would be perfect for a light rail IF the price was affordable. Particularly if it's more affordable than a bus (based on how much it was when I was there)...that BS that it's cheaper that petrol in a car each month...whatever! For where I lived, it was barely cheaper and with my car I had a little more control of my schedule. Nothing like waiting at the bus stop in the p1ssing rain and no bus coming.

Even with those LED signs. A couple of years ago on a Sunday...somehow every sign along the way from Salthill into town showed No Information Available...then by some strange coincidence. No Bus came.

One year I picked a place right by a bus stop thinking it would be handy to get in and out of town (Bothair an Choiste). Nope! It would either be late or not show up at all...particularly on a Sunday! Same happened again when I lived out in Mervue.

Nurts to the bus. Use it if you you're going out to Parkmore or if you have the luxury of your time not being all that valuable.

Links234

Crumbs868 wrote: »

That's a sweeping statement!

There were bigger issues like poor planning and crazy high fares behind Sydney's problems

The other issues were that it was more of a tourist thing than proper transportation for the city, and it was just a single loop covering a relatively small area. Single loop being a problem, because it was grand if you're going from A to B, but if you wanted to go from B to A, you'd have to go to C to D and so forth before getting back around to A, and that's just not ideal for any commuter service. Not that a monorail can't work purely as a tourist thing, Seattle's one goes from Westlake to the Space Needle, it's a relatively short trip that just goes between 2 stops, but it's not pricey and it actually turns a profit for the city. That was actually one of the things I enjoyed most from the trip. But I doubt one would suit Galway purely as a tourist attraction.

The Lost Sheep

stampydmonkey wrote: »

Concert Venue and Proper Sports Arena, 50m pool and running track

Is an Olympic pool needed?
There already is outdoor 400m running tracks. Dangan etc.
What else would you want in this proper sports arena and where would you put it?

Wompa1

Links234 wrote: »

The other issues were that it was more of a tourist thing than proper transportation for the city, and it was just a single loop covering a relatively small area. Single loop being a problem, because it was grand if you're going from A to B, but if you wanted to go from B to A, you'd have to go to C to D and so forth before getting back around to A, and that's just not ideal for any commuter service. Not that a monorail can't work purely as a tourist thing, Seattle's one goes from Westlake to the Space Needle, it's a relatively short trip that just goes between 2 stops, but it's not pricey and it actually turns a profit for the city. That was actually one of the things I enjoyed most from the trip. But I doubt one would suit Galway purely as a tourist attraction.

I go to Seattle a few times a year. I love the place but the monorail is a little odd...I think it was pretty much designed just to get people from the airport to downtown. It's great for people flying in, or Football fans going to a game down by the Piers.

But for the people living there, it kind of blows. Again, mainly down to the fact that it doesn't cover most peoples needs. I looked into living there. I would have needed to get a bus to the rail and then walk couple of miles after I got off to get where I needed to go.

Also so many people working in that area have to travel out to Bellevue and Redmond. Meanwhile the only somewhat affordable living is in places like Renton or even further South than Tacoma...it's not great.

Denver are about to link there's to their airport. It will be one of the longest light rail lines in the US. The Airport is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy outside of the downtown. I suspect that will get a lot of business for the simple fact, the only alternatives for people are a buses that take forever, rent a car or pay out the @ss for a taxi.

Dublin's light rail is one of the only ones I've heard of in a non-HUGE city that's doing well

saabsaab

Airship service cargo & passenger to Aran Islands.

Daisy78

A concert hall fit for a city so invested in the arts.

And a greenway.....

Links234

Wompa1 wrote: »

I go to Seattle a few times a year. I love the place but the monorail is a little odd...I think it was pretty much designed just to get people from the airport to downtown. It's great for people flying in, or Football fans going to a game down by the Piers.

Are you mixing up the monorail with the link light rail? The link was only opened a few years back and it's still being extended. The monorail was built in the 60's for the world's fair along with the Space Needle, it doesn't go to the airport.

One thing I think Seattle really did right was the downtown transit tunnel, we were staying up near Northgate so regularly took the bus. The great thing about the transit tunnel was that both the light rail and bus services ran through it, so there was very little holdup on the bus. Actually, I thought the bus services were great in Seattle, the only time we even used a taxi while there was getting to White Center, or getting back from Ballard, both late at night. The rest of the time we were using the public transport.

I'd love to back again, seriously nice place.