Getting around Galway

The virtual footpaths are working as designed post works!

In which direction though? From Monroes to Mill Street or the other way round.

that is such a wide sweeping statement…. not every footpath needs to be widened not every on street parking to be removed. Roll out the bubble wrap while were at it. can't protect those that lack personal responsibility and cop-on.

want to remove car dependency, then PT needs to be on a 10 minute schedule or at least 15 minute and must be consistently reliable along with city direct booted out. Then yes remove the on street parking on bus routes and replace with bus lanes. bus connects for galway is eventually coming but that is not enough.

I'd love to see an independent group brought in, to do analysis on the real causes of traffic issues across the city.

I understand locals frustrations about people using their roads as rat runs, but we really need to tackle the true causes of the traffic on the main routes.

"Too many cars" - yes, this is an issue, but we're not in a position to reduce car numbers currently.

If you think of Renmore, traffic going from GMIT, as far as Renmore Park is always blocked up. Why? Once you get passed Renmore Park, traffic starts moving faster

Similarly, driving along Lough Atalia, you're almost always guaranteed to be stuck in traffic until you cross the Wolfe Tone bridge. Then it frees up

Coming along the Quincentennial Bridge until you get to Rahoon Road going to the cemetery. The same thing

What is it on these three sections that cause backlogs? Do we have too many junctions/traffic lights on these roads?

There are improvements out there, without building new roads, or public transports. We just need the right people doing the analysis, and their ideas implemented.

If it was up to me, for those three sections, I'd immediately look at the following junctions for improvements

Come up with a plan for cars coming from, or going to Renmore Road, from the Dublin Road.

Do anything to stop the late merging along as you come up to the Spanish Arch from the Docks

The road coming from Shantalla to Rahoon

Why not have a bendy bus done as a trial…

Honestly I think we should take Connolly suggestion and run with it… She wanted 4 times the amount of busses in Galway to solve traffic… I would suggest 60 day trial, anytime but the summer…

If they would nail that one in Merlin woods near the castle

My first suggestion…

Stop them using Predestrian Traffic Lights…

Raised Zebra crossing with a sensor for turning on the light, like at Sherdians… (by the way, get rid of the stupid law that states they should be always flashing, let them come on when the sense someone is waiting..

The Pedestrian Traffic lights at Blackrock are a death trap just waiting for someone to miss them in the low sun… they won't slow down at all (because no raise in the road)… They could plough through…

Also Roundabout are safer and better than traffic lights, why are these idiots allowed to remove roundabouts for traffic lights… Yes I know they are clueless on how to design cycle friendly ones but those intersections have been proven to be more dangerous..

They do get independent reports done on the traffic but then decide they'll ignore them and press on with poor ideas (looking at you ring road).

Nail on the head. The “campaigners” equate their want with need. Of course it’s not needed.

Really poorly configured light sequencing across the city is a major contribution too. Every evening I watch the traffic going west from westside being held for a long sequence for an empty Rahoon Road.

We need to use the big fancy control centre that we apparently have, and staff it 7.30am to 7.30pm, not the normal 9.30am to 4.30pm council shift.

No. Its a complete working one.

Akward as hell.

Agree completely. Impossible to time lights with how badly people drive. Most seem to be fairly synched when you drive the speed limit etc.

Oh I don't bother any more with OBumble any more - they always ignore what the real killer of pedestrians on our roads are yet likes to think they are standing up for pedestrian rights by focusing on the perceived dangers of other vulnerable road users. It is very odd all round.