M6 - Galway City Ring Road [planning decision pending]

You're just ranting about anti road people and not being constructive to this thread. That's my point, just to be clear.

I'll stop engaging now. This thread is hopeless just like the road 😂

This is a fascinating thread. It is highlighting the doom spiral of argumentative personality types. How any of these people think there aren't 'movements' is baffling. I am from the Tara area, the hippies and the archaeologists and general do gooders were up in arms over the M3 going through their precious valley, so they moved it further from the hill than the current N3, they still weren't happy of course but it got built and thank god it did.

I recall driving to Newtown mt K. as a child and watching the hippies living out of garbage bags to protect trees from the M11 progress. Thank god that got built too.

Having lived in Galway for 6 years until last June and promptly leaving it as it is a festering pit of negligence and general backwardness, there seems to be no real 'movement' against it at all which is the irony in your own posts. It's a general ineptitude of backward troglodytes suddenly trying to manage a growing 'city'.

The equivalent would be Offaly council building endless estates around tullamore for the next 70 years while not widening a single road or building a bridge. The difference is Tullamore actually has 4 bridges across the canal and a ring road already. Galway is a joke. There is a reason nobody from the East of the country moves/stays there. Things might not be great in Dublin but they get built.

The M50 is around the capital city, a city 10 times larger than Galway. The Jack Lynch Tunnel is in our second largest city, three times larger than Galway. The Limerick Tunnel connects to Shannon International Airport and the Shannon Free Zone, the world's first free trade area established in 1959 which supports 7000 direct jobs.

None of these go through a large Special Area of Conservation and none of these required dozens of homes to be demolished during their construction.

Fair comment yes, but I will add that both Cork and Dublin and Limerick kept protected corridors for their ring roads, to a large extent. So demolition of homes wasn't necessary, the route was protected.

Galway Co Co and City Co can't plan for squat so they allowed one-off houses to be flung everywhere without giving any thought to a corridor to be kept clear. Its the same reason why the majority live on the opposite side of the river to where they work. Atrotious planning.

Edit: 14 years since I posted this thread, and counting.

I agree with this post, but history and geography matter.

"It's the same reason why the majority live on the opposite side of the river to where they work."

Posters keep lamenting all the houses were built on the west of the City, but the factories were built on the east. Check out where the schools are/where in the 1980s, secondary in black,

Most of the school locations are pre 1970, (some like Salerno, Jes national moved location slightly). One could argue (I would not) that the factories were in the wrong place, but dragging trucks through 1960/70 Galway would have been a terrible idea. Galway planning is and has been crap for 50 years, but geography and history played a part, as did lack of money.

Also land on the west of the river is mainly crap, mainly good farmland on the east. That actually mattered back then when we were an agricultural economy.

Back then lots of kids walked, bussed or cycled to school. (Up hill both ways in the snow. Ya tell that to kids these days and the nae believe ya)

*I think, I have most of the schools, the one near Westwood was probably outside the city.

Listening to PO'Reilly on RTE stating that the ring road would only remove 40% traffic from the city. Hello ?? 40% is a lot. What do you want ? 95% to accept RR is required.

Sean Kyne pointed out, if you remove 40%, you can then at least focus on public transport solutions for the other communters. I agree.

We need proper public transport. We need a city bypass. The smallest German, French, Dutch cities have managed to provide these 2 solutions since the 90's. Galway CC are just feckin useless.. they couldnt plan a piss up in a brewrey.

In fairness, he makes a reasonable point that the difficulty getting to West County Galway is a likely economic deterrent in that region. Perhaps the reason people won't live / work there is due to its inaccessibility.

Yeah the main reason they are pushing this road is to bring cars directly into industrial estates. They may have more success if they pushed the West County Galway angle.

I'm from East Galway and have never been to Connemara. I've been to Clare lots of times on holiday as it's easier get to. The only time I've been out that way was to go to the Aran Islands. I missed the last ferry of the day as I sat in traffic for an hour trying to get through city centre Galway - the only way to travel to West Galway...

Hah! Good luck reducing congestion more like. If the population is projected to grow that much, it surely backs up the argument for the road?

First and foremost though, public transport. Only public transport can support such a large population increase.

I think seaslacker specifically meant population in West County Galway which is certainly not growing at the same national or city rate.