Galway traffic

Just as an example, Olso Bar to The Cornstore at 1AM on Saturday night/Sunday morning according to Google Maps:

12-16 minutes via Salmon Weir Bridge

12-20 minutes via Qunicentary Bridge

I don't think I'd classify that as "making it very difficult"? And that's if we went for the full Dutch treatment where you can only access an urban neighbourhood on the eastern bank of a river by car from an easterly direction. I don't think anyone really expects Galway is going to go full Dutch anytime in the next few decades.

There are posters out there who want to close all but the Quin Bridge to private cars, 24x7.

Build another. Or even two.

And this in the City where City Centre cycling is being promoted at an almost genocidal level.

Its not an either/or, you build it all. That's cities.

The Paris example demonstrates my earlier post well - they added ring roads without active travel infrastructure and now that they're several ring roads deep they're now going back to try solve the initial problem by giving people more efficient and sustainable travel options.

Are you for real?

"City Centre cycling is being promoted at an almost genocidal level"

Weren't you the same guy/gal claiming to have previously worked for TII or the NTA or some similar body, while at the same time demonstrating a completely warped perception of road traffic legislation?

And now you're genuinely trying to say with a straight face that encouraging people to use a bicycle when they can is 'genocidal'? God help us as a country if that's the kind cluelessness demonstrated by people with supposed professional expertise.

What's the story with Kingston Road?

They had been doing road works on it. Is that finished now?

I was on it the other day and the road surface is a dog's dinner.

I am assuming they are going to finish it off properly?

Galway needs a BRT like the Belfast Glider. This is where the focus should be.

Does anyone use the TFi Bus App in Galway city?

I don't know about the technology side of it but when I use the Dublin Bus App and it says Due I look up and there is the bus just coming around the corner. It's almost as if when it says Due it comes into sight. When it says three minutes it comes in three minutes in 99% of the time.

The TFI App for Galway is somewhat different. (Maybe the technology is different?) I can be waiting for a bus and it says Now but the Now can be five minutes or even more. Why is that? I was waiting at one bus stop in the suburbs recently, where there was no traffic, and it said Now yet I was waiting ten minutes for the thing.

The last day both the sign at the bus stop and the App said 20 minutes. I said F... this. So I started walking. As I got to my destination about 30 minutes later I checked the App and it said Now i.e. arriving at the bus stop I left half an hour ago.

Westside route. The realtime means nothing at all if the time is consistently wrong. I would assume that if it says Now that the bus is reasonably close by. But I also check the stop just prior to mine and it says Now also!

But this is my point. They aren't!!

I am convinced that the drivers have some way of overriding the tracking, so that the displays show the scheduled times instead of the actual ones.

There are multiple routes through westside. On some you should expect realtime tracking, on others you should not rely on the times/app. Without sharing which route # then I can't advise any further, tried to help!

Thank you. You have already helped by saying which routes should be realtime.

I ran and ran to make a connecting bus recently and a quick look at the app meant I had a minute to make it. I did just make it with no time to spare. Turned out that the bus I caught was itself at least half an hour late.

The real question I have is why the app says Now, for example, and yet 5 minutes later you are still waiting. In the Dublin Bus app Due basically means seconds and I can see it coming.