M6 - Galway City Ring Road [planning decision pending]

Free public transport attracts people who would otherwise walk or cycle but rarely people who would otherwise drive. The price of bus fare is too small to be a factor. Stopping cars crossing the corrib other than by qcb, removing parking and taking space from cars and giving it to sustainable modes is what will result in modal shift. Park and ride is also of little value. Parking is already abundant and mostly free outside the city, once you're in your car there's very little in the way of incentives that can get you out of it to complete your journey.

I remember back in 2010 that a Bus Lane and Cycle facilities length of Western Distributor Road WDR costed at €10 million (similar to the Seamus Quirke / Bishop O Donnell Road -> Galway City Council document for a Smarter Regional City bid; 13 years later the suburb with the densest Square km of people living in Galway City (a 500meter radius around Knockknacarra chuch) is still is without any dedicated public transport infrastructure.

Galway City Council and Galway County continue with all there might to manufacturer the car traffic problem when the sit on simple / very cheap solutions like putting in Bus Lanes and Cycle Paths the length of Western Distributor Road WDR

Also for a country that rains so fuking always the lack of shelters is appalling. Don't know what it's like in Galway but in Limerick most stops don't even have signs throughout the city and in the county your stop will be "outside Johnnys shed" or some shte.

I know it's a bigger city but Cork also has a green leap zone for the commuter towns which could very easily be done for Limerick and Galway.

As for free PT Tallinn tried that and as mentioned above it reduced walking not cars.

The big problem isn't held up buses it's the fully cancelled ones which there is no system to advise customers of the cancellation.

Its all the answer lads, but if you think it will all be enabled without the Ring Road too, you're mistaken.

You know what, I do actually.

And I have read your answers to why you believe the GCRR will go ahead and its mainly on political and environmental reasons. The chances of any acts or the environmental requirements being watered down is exceedingly slim. And while I think the Greens may not have as strong numbers in the next government, they aren't holding up this project, that will come from local levels through various legal interventions.

The people of Galway won't keep taking the long delays and will seek more timely alternatives. The main politician's will fall in behind local sentiment.

I used to cycle BnT twice a day when I worked that side of town. The scary part was the roundabout at the Menlo Park Hotel. The raised separated path on the stretch from there to the entrance to Glenburren Park was fine. But then you'd get gob$h!te$ who think they'll be able to get to the left turn on the Tuam Road more quickly if they move across to the curb and completely block the bike lane, while also still blocking the lane they should be in because more than half the width of their car is still in that lane. It's selfish and achieves absolutely nothing except antagonising fellow road users.

There were people walking BnT every day and it would be very wrong to try to prevent that. If someone lives in Tirellan Heights and works in Ballybane they can walk it in a little over 20 minutes. You'd be making their journey take at least 50% longer if you prevented them from walking BnT. Then there are those who work in the Mervue direction who actually cross BnT in the middle (near the river crossing). It's dangerous but I can understand why they do it. It's 800m from Ballinfoyle Church to the Mervue industrial estate as the crow flies. If you follow paths and cross BnT you can do it in 1.4km. But if you avoid BnT it will be more than 2km. There really should be an underpass or overpass there to facilitate that crossing and open up the route to everyone, not just the brave/foolish.

All roundabouts are hostile to walking and cycling.

For good or ill, the DMURS retrofit of roundabouts to signal junctions with narrow radii and bus priority is going to continue apace in urban areas, make no mistake. Which will slow up general traffic and make more of a case for a ring road than anything else!