Genuine question: what kind of contributor should have been invited on to give balance and what kind of arguments would they have put forward that provided that balance?
That's good to hear. Walking always seems to be forgotten about and between terrible footpath quality, red light breakers and people parking on footpaths it's a bad city for walking around.
Nox001?
Ah, yes. Someone who can simultaneously hold the view that it's unconscionable to even consider creating access points through walls dividing housing estates, because homes are inviolable and householders should have a veto on which pedestrians are allowed to walk on the footpath past their home, while also arguing that it's OK to demolish homes, and turf families out with a pittance, for the convenience of drivers. That's just the kind of towering intellect we need to improve the level of debate. 😉
You'd miss him, a walking (driving) contradiction.
Nevermind
Noone ever called you the fun Uncle :-)
The antics of Galway councillors reviewed in this article, along with others from other areas
The high point for me was being told that it was impractical to not have parking outside every front door and every destination because he liked to wear Dubarry style moccasin shoes, and they don't do well in the wet.
Irish Time letter
Yesterday in Galway, one local mum organised the second #Sundays4Safety event in Salthill, this time with a pedestrian focus. Below are some of the tweets , pics, vids etc from it
From blocking cars parking illegally on double yellows at a junction
To popup pedestrian crossings
This pretty much sums up the situation
Featured on radio today, podcast below, play from 36:45
From FB
Link - http://form.jotform.com/222302447017041
Some quotes from the article
For work trips, 78% of the KM distance travelled was by car. For companion/escort journeys, a remarkable 95% of the KM distance travelled was by car.
40% of all trips taken in Ireland are less than 8KM. For companion/escort journeys (including the school run) 60% of trips are less than 8KM. This distance is very walkable or cyclable, but three quarters of primary school children are driven to school because the alternatives of walking and cycling are simply not safe.
full details in the article
GCC facing criticism over lack of action
Here's a welcome one, footpath widening from Dangan Heights to the Circular rd junction. It's only a small bit of a path but you can see from the street view image, it goes from a good path to a sliver.
Details from the council
Road works are due to take place along the N59 from the entrance of Dangan Heights to Circular road from tomorrow Thursday, August 25th, for a period of 5 days.
The works will involve the widening of the existing path along with repairs and the relocation of 3 lighting columns.
i really hope i don't have to pay to take my girls swimming once in a while? When he says "paid parking for anyone on the site who are not regular customers of the facility" it get's me thinking it's only going to be free to club members.
Parking and traffic will become more of a problem in salthill.
Galway City Council run facility introducing car parking charges to deter car parking in a car park. Will be interesting if the Council adopt same approach to the Prom itself. Only a matter of time when they will bring in On Street Car parking to the Prom itself and the surrounding areas.
Is the swim free? The petrol you use to get there? The ice-creams you eat afterwards?
What are you on about!?
Just off the phone with a cllr. Customers will get their parking validated. Apparently this all stems from the parking issues around the GAA matches in pearse stadium.
That stretch of N59 from Bushypark to Dangan should be . Its 50kmph but the road is so so wide. Perfect candidate for raised cycle paths like the SQR and reduce the carraigeway widths (same goes for the Thomas Hynes Road)
Yeah to be honest there's probably a good 20km of roads around the city that could have protected bike added quickly with almost zero impact to existing users.
When you see the amount allocated to the city & county council over the last 2 years and how they're actually making use of it, or even the amounts they are actually asking for, it doesn't give much hope that things like this will ever happen.
Indeed the fact that the city council consider painting white lines on dual carriage lanes as being worthy of funding for active travel well, kinda says it all really 🤷♀️
To your point, I'd add Newcastle road and Siobhain McKenna rd in that area. All of a sudden you start to have something that resembles a network
Green SQR & BnT bike lanes, Orange Cross city route, blue potential
So the customers who don’t drive will pay their share of the costs of providing and managing parking too. Stay classy Galway.
Ya wide roads like Siobhan McKenna/Thomas Hynes in Newcastle / Westside seems like a no brainer, easy win, narrowing carriageway is a traffic calmer as well on these 50kmph roadl. Proximity to NUIG / UHG - why this was not done 20 years ago....
Point of information:
Newcastle Road runs from Cooke's Corner to University Road
The road from the hospital/University road towards Moycullen is called "Lower Newcastle" and "Upper Newcastle".
Note the absence of the word road in the title of this road.
The divider between Lower and Upper is Snipe Avenue.
Stone me, 20+ years living close to there and never coped that. We always just called the whole thing Newcastle Rd. I'm aware of the Upper/Lower sections, just never paid heed to the details of the name differences. Cheers for the info
A combined total of €18 million was allocated to both local authorities, by Eamon Ryan and the National Transport Authority.
Galway County Council spent around two-thirds of the funding allocated – but Galway City Council spent less than half.
The works at Martin RAB are going to take a lot longer than planned due to "supply chain issues and unexpected levels of hard rock being discovered on the site."
'unexpected levels of hard rock'? Ah c'mon
But, up till now nobody paid for parking. There was always a carpark there and I presume it's upkeep came from public funds. From now on, those who don't use the facilities in Leisureland, will have to pay to park there. So it'll cost the public finances less. Is that not better.
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