Why should public funds subsidise the transport choices of mostly better off people?
Why should they be used to subsidise the recreational choices? Leisureland is loss making, close the whole thing.
This is embarrassing. The contractor should be penalised for this.
Every route into that roundabout is now down to 1 lane and schools are back next week. It will be chaos in the mornings.
The council are worse for only announcing the delay a week before the original works were due to finish.
It seems they're just shrugging their shoulders and that's that.
There’s a public health benefit and public safety benefit in facilities like this, keeping people fitter and able to swim.
And not everyone that uses it has access to public transport, or live to far from it to walk or cycle. You wouldn't deny them an opportunity to access a public amenity just because they have to drive there, would you?
And to your previous point; private motorists have paid billions over and above pedestrians and cyclists and public transport users into the public finances. You can't expect them to pay all that and not have roads, carparks etc.
What was happening with the city centre car traffic yesterday? It was at a near standstill for most of the afternoon and evening. An hour to get around 600m.
I wonder will a personal nudging by the Minister encourage the councils to spend the money allocated to them.
You answered your own question there - car traffic.
They were all out buying last minute school books!
To give some folks an example of whats happening elsewhere, take a look at this for a project by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
When I talk about a network of safe cycling infrastructure, this will give you an idea of what I mean.
Its 4 mins long but worth a look
heard it was bad, considering kids aren't back yet i would put bet that likely an accident that had knock on affects.
but also pointless posting in this thread, this thread ain't for mechanically propelled vehicles as you saw from another reply.
NUIG Graduations ?
A local TD says a cycleway connecting Athenry to Oranmore, would be the perfect “pathfinder” project for Galway.
Its as Transport Minister Eamon Ryan asked every local authority, within the next three weeks, to submit a priority list of active travel schemes, to be delivered within two years.
This was one I was really hoping for when I was in Athenry as a commute cycle into Galway from there is totally doable with an ebike
Ciarán Hayes' voice was booming in my head yesterday! "school book buying day" 😃
Oh maybe, there were quite a few suits and dresses around. Probably a perfect storm of a few things.
2 kids from Galway quoted in the piece below
Here's one
Molly O’Connell (10), Galway
"I cycle to and from school every day. I also cycle into town and to the beach.
"Cycling is a much more beautiful and eco-friendly way to travel. I really want to be able to cycle freely around town. It would be much nicer if the cars weren't so close to me.
"Speaking of cars being too close, once me and my dad were cycling up St Mary's Road and a car brushed off my shoulder and I almost fell off my bike. I just hope that doesn't happen again to me or anyone else.
"I have been cheerleading and cycling for the Galway Urban Greenway since I was six years' old. On every cycle, I have loads of craic with my friends and family but we still don't have a greenway. I was soo sad and angry when the cycleway [in Salthill] was voted down.
"I’ll definitely cycle when I’m older, 100%. Because I want my kids (if I have kids) to have the opportunity to cycle freely with me."
makes sense, fits the time of year.
next week gonna be back heavy traffic (mechanically propelled vehicles) again thou
I'm expecting a huge increase in Electric scooters in the next few weeks. The big one being the University's going back to full time on campus. Students are living further out and with PT not being feasible for most and issues around the beloved car (parking,fuel cost & traffic) it seams to be the preferred option lately.
How will the city cope?
cope? people (everyone including motorists) to have some personal responsibility and some cop on which is lacking these days. You cannot legislate or provision for stupidity.
Are e-scooters legal yet? They are really handy though
I fear most of them will be commuting from too far away to make use of a scooter. Some might be "lucky" enough to be able to get an intercity bus to Eyre Square but we under-invested in public transport for years so there won't be too many on suitable bus routes. Scooters don't add to the congestion very much but we'll probably see continuous increases in car traffic.
Not yet, I believe the legislation is moving slowly forward.
Its a proposal by DLRCC. It has no status beyond that.
But its not going to pass anyway, not in its current form. Maybe not at all.
Galway had the salutory tale of the Dun Laoghaire CMR and of Strand Road, Sandymount when they cancelled the Salthill cycleway. DLR are certainly no model of a Council when it comes to this stuff. They have (had) a couple of zealots in senior positions over cycling and mobility and they ended up building a little empire for themselves, which was eventually torn down, but not before a couple of schemes with no proper permission or consultation were installed on the public road.
The Galway City Councillors were very wise to force to keep the democratic input into these measures and keep them as decisions to be made by the elected representatives. The Genie got somewhat out of the bottle in Dublin and Dun Laoghaire, but Councillors are belatedly dealing with that now, as they see that they themselves will be blamed for the consequences.
A good assessment of the current situation in Galway wrt traffic, the councils role in causing it and what might be done to address it
This is fine, no problem with letting kids cycle on this bike lane
The #Sundays4Safety folks were featured on Nuacht
Irish Times letter on the impact of stupidly sized cars
Good letter. Ya SUV's are a pain all right in the City Center- but its not just SUV; all cars are getting bigger.
Spotted a 1980's Golf over the weekend here in town. What a slim beauty of a car that was in comparison to the current version.
The City Medieval core is pretty small - eventually car usage there is going to be further restricted if Ireland follows the example of similar towns in Europe.
Not just the City. Towns like Athenry will be going down this route as well, eventually.
:-)
Similar to the "ordinary Galway Mother" who most know is the incessantly self publicising PR professional Grainne Faller of Galway Cycling Campaign.
These "2 kids from Galway" are brother and sister, and children of the chair of the Galway Urban Greenway Alliance.
Not sure what point you are trying to make.
Are these children not allowed to give an opinion or something?
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