Infrastructure needs to be designed to minimise ASB, not to maximise it.
A pedestrian bridge between Nuns Island carpark and north of the exBorn building would be a rapists dream. And one leading go a path thru Bowling Green a total waste, because those residents aren't going to open up their neighbourhood to trouble again.
And we not be should be making carparks more convenient, unless they are p&r sites on the edge of the city.
A pedestrian bridge between Nuns Island carpark and north of the exBorn building would be a rapists dream.
You mean the new salmon weir pedestrian bridge is a 'rapists dream'?🤣
Can we please stop with the bridges=rape and walkways=rape narrative? Anti-social behavior might be a concern but trying to make out that there's hoards of rapists out there just waiting for someone to build them a bridge so they can strike is at best, miss-informed and scaremongering.
They appointed a design team in October 2020 but I havent seen anything since. I was thinking as I passed the Bish the other day, will new schools have to have a significantly bigger footprint post covid to facilitate social distancing etc. ?
The only thing I've heard mentioned about the move is that Catherine Connolly was asking Norma Foley a few months ago about all the vacant secondary school buildings in Galway and whether it would make more sense to refurb existing buildings. I do love a bit of schadenfreude and would love to see NUIG's plans scuppered, they would ruin the area if they turned the site into student accommodation
"Deputy Connolly told the Galway City Tribune: “I was trying to ascertain from the Minister whether we need to build new schools, or whether we have enough capacity in existing school buildings that are empty"
“My difficulty is we have empty schools [the former Mercy and Presentation]; and it was unacceptable from day one that two schools should be empty, when one school [The Bish] appears to be under pressure in relation to numbers. The Presentation is literally a stone’s throw across the river to the Bish.
“I would’ve thought that they could coalesce or unite for a solution but that doesn’t seem to have happened and there doesn’t seem to be an appetite for it but it seems to me to be a very practical solution to any schools’ difficulties.”
Deputy Connolly said she would “like clarity” on the Department’s plans for The Bish, in view of the empty schools in Galway City.
I thought the Bish was already using the old Presentation school as overflow space in the current school year?
They definitely were using the old presentation building when schools went back just after the first lockdown
Are there any road closures on August 6th for the Streets of Galway race?
Looks like a HGV ban will come in regardless, as part of the Haulage Strategy document just published
Details on the consultation below
That picture of Hildegarden in the cab (as a certain independent TD insists on calling her), is hilarious 😁
I thought pictures of women posing in (or on) vehicles had gone out of fashion in the 1980s? 😂
The improved path is now open, and all I can say is about time. I first used that path over 30 years ago when I used to live in Emerson Avenue, in that "loop" of houses just beyond the start of the path. Now that I'm back living in the area again, it's a very useful shortcut. Curiously, there used to be another pedestrian exit: A flight of steps up into the terrace of houses off Lenaboy Gardens. That's long gone though.
Any chance of a few pics to see what its like. The before images on streetview showed how bad it was, so I'm curious to see how it has turned out
You might want to clarify your definition of ASB. Does it include pavement parking, driving on the phone, speeding and other anti-social behaviours frequently exhibited by drivers?
You need help understanding the difference between what a rapist does and the activities you just listed out?
Well well well
Not a peep from any Salthill businesses about this loss of parking for a private business
This lady was lucky not to be killed in salthill today, hit by someone opening their car door, and knocked into oncoming traffic. Easily avoided by the right infrastructure
Salthill was black with cars/people yesterday. We went to the circus and parked down at the business school. Must have been about 8/9 cars clamped by Apcoa in one of the apartment carparks next to it.
Can happen anywhere I was knocked off my bike by a taxi opening the door at St Patricks school thankfully not injured
Riding a bicycle within a car doors width of a parked car is as dumb as undertaking in a non-grade-separated cycle lane.
The best way to encourage car users to support proper cycle infrastructure is to take the lane when you need to.
Do you drive on the other side of the road so as to avoid parked cars too?
Or is it only bikes that this should apply to?
She's right though. Worst thing you can do on a bike is stick to close to the side. Even if there's no car doors opening, drivers behind you will decide they can squeeze past even when there's oncoming traffic.
Had a feeling when I saw this that the Salthill cycleway would come up again as being the problem as it could only happen out there, it happens everywhere.
You're right, there should be protected cycling infrastructure everywhere to prevent stuff like this happening
It's an especially bad problem in Salthill. It's a long stretch of continual parking with lots of coming/going. The road has several pinch stretches and frustrated drivers take chances passing cyclists before squeezing in before ongoing traffic.
It's absolutely safest to take the full lane but it's not for novice cyclists or children, generally a very hostile stretch to cycle. You're surrounded with moving cars paying varying levels of attention.
Hop on a bike, try it.
Have done loads of times never had an issue the only place I hit a door was at St Patricks school now that's narrow only one lane two in Salthill
Never had an issue meaning never been doored or never felt the risk of being doored?
I haven't been door either, but always on heightened alert going through Salthill and very confident on the bike. Take an assertive position and always trying to catch eye contact of all the surrounding drivers when possible, assuming they aren't paying attention and about to pull across me or open a door.
I would not want my partner or kids cycling that stretch. Got them bikes at at Christmas to enjoy the temporary cycle lane for the last few months of school and for the summer. Unfortunately they're mostly in the shed and start most trips being strapped to a car. We're only a few km from Salthill and we continue to reluctantly drive there (and spend 30mins finding parking).
Why would you buy bikes to enjoy one temporary cycle lane?
Thats like buying a car just to have a spin on a new motorway.
I'm not saying cycle safety couldn't be better everywhere, but anyone waiting for seamless protected infrastructure before taking to a bike, will be waiting a very long time indeed.
When you learn to drive, its for driving in all conditions. When you learn to swim, its to enjoy good conditions and maybe save your own life in bad conditions. Teach them how to cycle ffs and make all the risks and hazards known to them, so that they can begin gaining experience in all conditions.
I have to ask though, how are the people of Salthill not mortified at the amount of social media space they take up with the every day problems of traffic and travel all over the Country, that everyone else just gets on with. Eventually what they're saying will catch on and Salthill will be avoided by everyone, in all modes.
Because 5 months of safe segregated cycling that would have replaced many of our car journeys would have been worth it. Simples.
Would you not rather the NTA step in and develop a sustainable City cycling network for Galway, factored into other needed improvements and flood defences?
The Salthill plan was a disaster on paper and completely unsustainable, not just for the vibrancy of Salthill, but for the likes of the emergency services and bus operators, as confirmed by them.
The City Council must do better than yellow pack facilities.
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