You're right, there should be protected cycling infrastructure everywhere to prevent stuff like this happening
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.
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.
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?
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.
Can happen anywhere I was knocked off my bike by a taxi opening the door at St Patricks school thankfully not injured
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.
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
Not a peep from any Salthill businesses about this loss of parking for a private business
Well well well
You need help understanding the difference between what a rapist does and the activities you just listed 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?
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
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.
I thought pictures of women posing in (or on) vehicles had gone out of fashion in the 1980s? 😂
That picture of Hildegarden in the cab (as a certain independent TD insists on calling her), is hilarious 😁
Looks like a HGV ban will come in regardless, as part of the Haulage Strategy document just published
Details on the consultation below
Are there any road closures on August 6th for the Streets of Galway race?
They definitely were using the old presentation building when schools went back just after the first lockdown
I thought the Bish was already using the old Presentation school as overflow space in the current school year?
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.
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.
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'?🤣
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.
I'd put the next bridge in a line from the bowling green - through the arch, replace the existing footbridge, then across the river, through the church grounds to the back of the carpark.
It would be a straight line more or less from the college to town.
That arch and small bridge are marked on the maps - I can't tell if it is a public right of way.
Agreed, have to wait and see. To your point, Nuns Island will see a huge amount of development in the years to come as NUIG get things moving there. I think the Bish move has to happen first though
Not building for the sake of it. Building with the intent to improve walkability and permeability in the city. Don't forget there's also plans for Nuns Island in the works. Having a bridge that more directly parts of the city is rarely a waste and no doubt the fund they'll use will be ringfenced for these kinds of projects so it's not just sitting there for general usage.
I'm in the camp of "curious but wait and see when more details come out". Hopefully it's a sign of more forward thinking and planning coming from the Council.
There arent any other positions that make it more viable either - the reality is when walking into town from NUIG or University road you will take the new salmon weir bridge as its quickest, and same in opposite direction.
If going to lower part of nuns island from city you go via obriens bridge. The only scenario where a middle bridge would be useful is if your journey started in the cathedral car park.
They could do so much more with the money they'd spend on another bridge, building for the sake of building something is not a good excuse
I was thinking the same but I guess you can't have existing natural routes when there's a river in the way. The one from the bottom of the cathedral car park to the car park in Newtownsmith car park would be useful for example. Save a bit of time on a walk.
The whole thing seems weird to me but I'm glad to see them doing stuff.
I guess until there are drawings released its kinda hard to say, it's very likely my guesses are wrong for the intended location
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