How would rejuvenate Galway City?

Isn't Hynes' privately owned? I don't think the location is the worst when it comes to contributing to traffic. Most seem to enter it from the docks side and much of the traffic coming out from it turn back out the docks too but then I suppose i tgoes back to what has been talked about a lot on this forum before. A lot of Galway's traffic isn't actually around the city centre itself.

Would think it best to leave that open for now but force traffic to the right after the brewery/bar. Block traffic from going to Eyre Square or better still only allow buses through.

Allow traffic like they currently do but actually enforce it to be early in the morning, not this BS where it extends for hours. They do it in other cities. Having staff in early for deliveries is the cost of doing business in the city centre.

re rolled tarmac on "Shop street" ( Williamsgate & Mainguard) There was originally paving planned - but the RIGID ARTIC trucks won that war. Weight of vehicles doing last leg delivery would have destroyed it like happened to the OLD paving

Cllr Frank Fahy was on Galway Bay FM yesterday talking about the hordes of Seagulls who haven't seen the glorious blue waters of Salthill in their lifetimes as the living is so good in the City Centre with people hand feeding them.

I didn’t notice any large outlets like supermarkets on Shop st so surely van deliveries would suffice here?

This happens on both Grafton & Henry st in Dublin, would typically see vans parked on the paved streets before 9am doing daily deliveries.

I haven’t seen any damaged pavements that would occur from these vehicles which also include cash transit vans.

To answer the poster's initial query, I would suggests the city providing Kenny's Bookshop with a large premises in the city centre, rent free. That would attract back thousands of good customers who don't bother visiting Galway City anymore now that they have relocated to an industrial estate. Unlikely and probably unachievable. The original Kenny's Bookshop was a significant visitor attraction to Galway City. Allowing it to leave the city centre was an extremely foolish move imo.

You are correct re supermarkets.

Galway City gets a mix of both the big rigid 3 axel trucks , vans + the keg beer delivery' trucks. (Your typical Guinness Keg Truck) as posted by Mrs OBumble on the Pedestrian Streets.

Perhaps aim of post was to encourage discussion on loss of the "local" retailers and how to encourage them to stay or encourage NEW local businesses setting up in the Centre?

Mike Crowe is after our beloved vape shops!

There's always going to be a turnover of businesses in the city centre but the issue I believe is that the quality of the business venture that leaves isn't usually matched by the replacement that opens.

@mrsobumble

Pubs replacing pubs, sellf explanatory

Bookshop with many niche and specialist services and products (kennys) replaced by outlet for items which are online primarily

And don't even mention the vape shop epidemic

That's rubbish. The pubs that were replaced have revitalized half that street because they invested in improving the buildings, especially Mary Mullen's. What's there now is so much better than what was there before.

Build Bypass, this allows the city to breath… Galway has four times the cars from when the last bridge was built, rent is so expensive there is more commuting into the city rather than live here…

While building consider this… Ask the Irish Government for a two year pilot where we double the amount of buses in the city, have park and ride all year and then make bus FREE… Yep, I am saying all inner city bus travel should be FREE…

Want to be serious about Public Transport make it be paid by taxes… Hopefully this clears the roads of Private cars, this is why it is a pilot… This space then can be used to naturally increase space for other modes of transport…

Yes, this seems a bit radical… Luxembourg City (Pop:128k) have free inner city travel, you just step on and step off… No paying, so everything runs much quicker… Is there risk? Yes… But I think that this could change the way we view public transport and the use of private car in the city from being the default transport to one used when we have a special need…

The public transport without the need for ticketing would encourage jump on /jump off mentality…

Your McCambridges point is valid, that has disimproved for sure. However, the point of the pubs disproves your notion that the new businesses are worse than the old. They are objectively better on Prospect Hill.

This is all anecdotal but my opinion is that Galway has never been better in terms of commercial, city centre businesses but it also has major room for improvement and is absolutely resting on its laurels.