Getting around Galway

If a vehicle is 5m long + 2m space ahead + 2m space behind..over 10km stretch =  🧮  1111 vehicles queued and uncosted exhaust fumes..

How do you fix a problem like the coast road to/from Bearna? Where would the bus lanes go?

You could do something like this:

Make it one way so that Galway bound traffic follows that loop, one bus lane and one car lane, and Spiddal bound traffic goes through Barna on the current road, again one bus lane and one car lane.

Between there and Kingston Road the road could be widened by CPOing agricultural land and strips of gardens. No houses would need to be knocked. Kingston Road and the Coast Road could also be made one way to facilitate bus lanes without needing to do CPOs. But there is also capacity to widen both without knocking any existing dwellings, just taking garden strips.

long long overdue. so much space on both roads to put in facilities for decades now

It really is an easy win here, so many use that road for access to industrial estate at one end, ATU at the other, access to primary schools in both Mervue and Renmore, sports pitches etc. Off the top of my head, there’s only one pinch point there at the Ballybane road bus stop, where the path is narrow on both sides of the road for about 100m or so.

A lot more detail here as well.

Very disappointing. There's a reason he is no longer part of the hierarchy of the Galway Cycling Campaign…

It looks like genuine issues and design details have been raised. I just hope it's not perfection getting in the way of good.

Hopefully the project is so far advanced that they make the design tweaks as needed and don't throw the baby out with the bath water. The delays are frustrating, progress is painfully slow in Galway.

Unfortunately that's exactly the fear, that perfection is the enemy of progress.

Its a difficult one, I am 50/50 on it. Galway City Council have been such bad faith actors on public transport, cycling and walking for decades. Cross City BusConnects is not going to do much for people on bikes at all TBH. I think most people acknowledge that. Could a legal challenge like this force City Council to put in cycle facilities on Sean Mulvoy and Moneenageisha Road for example as part of BusConnects? Same for One Way streets. Merchants Road - a two way cycle way?

Parkmore Road is a very good example as listed by Mrs O Bumble. A scheme built in 2024 which makes cycling to and from Parkmore even more challenging and difficult now. Public transport has improved marginally - really just the provision of bus shelters over the inbound bus lane. Probably biggest "winners" has been for people on foot with some junction tightening and additional pedestrian crossings. At most one would give it a "D" grade.

Did something happen? Traffic is bonkers at lunchtime. Sean Mulvoy & Tuam Road blocked or maybe it is a normal Monday 😕

Really would have to question why this kind of work is done this time of year. Daylight alone mitigates against the duration of this type of inspection work. Reeks of "Gotta use the budget up" by end of year.

Lack of available drivers?

Is that the same for on-street parking?

From Tuesday 7th, you make card payments thru the app.