Getting around Galway

If the Council were genuine in making the city better for Active Travel, the sequence would be

• East West both ways
• 4 way pedestrian
• North South both ways
• 4 way pedestrian

or

• East West both ways
• 4 way pedestrian
• North to East (left turn from Dangan onto bridge) and East to West (bridge to Browne Roundabout)
• 4 way pedestrian
• North South both ways
• 4 way pedestrian

Must be a work in progress. Traffic backed up barely moving Newcastle Rd heading north from Cookes and similar on University Rd. All the buses getting stuck in it and knock-on effects on schedules

Can't see this happening but….

Can confirm the same but its only in the last week or so, not a soul or BUS near the lights and they go red - rather than saying the lights be deactivated - the technical glitch should be resolved. Have NOT witnessed a BUS yet use the lights as a PRIORITY measure to get into the OUTBound lane general traffic stream

It's definitely got worse in the evenings in Parkmore recently. Seems everything is backed up a lot more. Very few cars seem to be getting to turn right at the end of the Parkmore Road junction

Works are ongoing currently on the Castlepark Road Cycle Scheme - ATU side outbound (doing in segments like the Ballybane Road)

Ah nice - the Galway version of the Berlin "Ampelmännchen"

Presume its just written in shorthand "PLEBS" on the RED light?

The bollards around Sherwood Ave, Marys Road at and opposite scoil fhursa were installed to stop parents pulling up on the footpath to drop off their little darlings. The flexi bollards at Lower Taylors Hill (at/around St Marys Park) are to stop drivers pulling onto the footpath amongst the pedestrians to facilitate oncoming cars which have to cross over the line to facilitate those availing of free all day parking at St Marys Terrace. I think the bumps are to suggest that the pedestrian has priority, without stating it, as they align with the footpath going from Scoil Fhursa to Marys Road, could be wrong on that on though.

Those patched road surfaces around the city are so dangerous for cyclists

Speed bumps are to sharply slow traffic as people use the short Sherwood as a rat run - sometimes even taking a right to Nile Lodge to avoid the red light coming down Taylors

Incredible it has taken this long to do a small bit about that primary school located on a traffic island

I keep reading about the rat run caused by the back gate of Merlin Park Hospital being open. I'm not that familiar with the area. I can't find the back gate into there on a map.

Can anyone enlighten me?

Coming from Merlin Park Lane

I was looking at the Galway Cycle Connects Plan on the NTA website and trying to figure out when it is likely that these proposed changes will be implemented. I know these things take time, but some of these routes feel like no-brainers to just get on with. Dr Mannix Road, for example, is a lovely big wide road, the main road for the local cycle bus, it has a gaa stadium and training ground, 2 parks, 1 school with 3 more just off it (Salerno, Endas secondary and scoil Ide), but at the moment , it is just a big wide road with loads of randomly parked cars parked outside their houses or waiting to pick up kids. What is the holdup?

CycleConnects - Galway Urban Cycle Networks.pdf

Interesting! I get so frustrated with cars using lower Taylors Hill and Lower Salthill for free parking close to town, taking space from potential cycleways, but I hadnt considered it up further from town on Dr Mannix. Cycling up Dr Mannix during the day/early evening you are weaving in and out onto the road around numerous parked cars, but much more sporadic than the line of them on University Rd/Lower Salthill/Siobhan McKenna etc.

Absolutely, the GCRR is blocking any movement in the city, it is strangling development, but these small scale projects, where the space is already there, could proceed while we wait for ABP to realise how inappropriate a solution the ring road is (🤞)

100% AGREE - both could have been done 30 years ago.

Have similar on the East site near RTC/GMIT/ATU.

Galway City Council have finally got around to converting the Ballybane and Castlepark Road for high capacity traffic conversions in the year 2025

Ballybane and Castlepark Road are like carbon copies of Siobhan McKenna and Thomas Hynes Road on the dimensions side. The big plus for both Ballybane and Newcastle for such conversions is they have good permeability built into them thanks to the 1960/70's planners

You expect an individualised response to your suggestion of where a little bicycle track can go?