Galway's traffic issues

Thegalwayman · 25-09-2019 2:47pm

Pedestrian lights across from the Fire Station are a joke. stuck on red for a minute when they should be green. Been like that since the day they were installed

youngrun · 25-09-2019 4:36pm

https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2019/0925/1078144-galway-traffic/

Call for efforts to end Galway's traffic 'gridlock'

zell12 · 25-09-2019 4:43pm

[QUOTE=youngrun;111345022 https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2019/0925/1078144-galway-traffic/
Call for efforts to end Galway's traffic 'gridlock'[/QUOTE]
Banning private cars? Congestion charge?
Oh no, it's the good ol' Galway city outer bypass as though it'll solve all.

youngrun · 25-09-2019 4:49pm

zell12 wrote: »

Banning private cars? Congestion charge?
Oh no, it's the good ol' Galway city outer bypass as though it'll solve all.

Bypass 5 years+ away by when the city will be at a standstill, it is close to that already

Way too many cars into too small an area

Without carrot and stick people will keep driving eg Park and Ride carparks and bus links ( free/subsidised) /toll charges /outright car bans

I would favour the former ie Massive P&R ( 3000+ spaces ) plus buses but to work car routes would need to be reduced and or closed to car traffic at certain times.

Ashleigh1986 · 25-09-2019 4:59pm

city council should open up galway airport and have a park and ride to parkmore / Boston sientific / and a separate connecting bus service into eyre square .
Charge people €2 per day for parking and bus .
Maybe companies like Boston sientific / Medtronic etc will contribute to employees paying for such a service .
Same airport could be used for Christmas shoppers visiting Christmas market .
€2 per day ain't a lot to be paying .
A regular service leaving every few minutes especially for workers would be required.
After 9 am service could go into eyre square every 15 mins .

25-09-2019 5:08pm

Ashleigh1986 wrote: »

city council should open up galway airport and have a park and ride to parkmore / Boston sientific / and a separate connecting bus service into eyre square .
Charge people €2 per day for parking and bus .
Maybe companies like Boston sientific / Medtronic etc will contribute to employees paying for such a service .
Same airport could be used for Christmas shoppers visiting Christmas market .
€2 per day ain't a lot to be paying .
A regular service leaving every few minutes especially for workers would be required.
After 9 am service could go into eyre square every 15 mins .

Already tried and failed

zell12 · 25-09-2019 5:23pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Already tried and failed

True.
People need to be cajoled out of their private cars for all sorts of reasons, for the societal benefit of all.

timmyntc · 25-09-2019 5:29pm

zell12 wrote: »

True.
People need to be cajoled out of their private cars for all sorts of reasons, for the societal benefit of all.

They need to be given a better alternative.
Build more bus lanes, buses can then make journeys faster and reliably (little to no mixing with car traffic to slow things down).

If an alternative to sitting in your car for an hour or more each day existed, people would take it. The problem is it just isn't there.

zell12 · 25-09-2019 5:40pm

timmyntc wrote: »

..If an alternative to sitting in your car for an hour or more each day existed, people would take it. The problem is it just isn't there.

We already have limited bus lanes. Constantly used by private cars and garda don't have resources to enforce same.
People need to shift from private cars to walk, cycle, bus. Galway is quite a small place.

youngrun · 25-09-2019 5:44pm

zell12 wrote: »

True.
People need to be cajoled out of their private cars for all sorts of reasons, for the societal benefit of all.

This is the only solution to traffic issues in Galway in next 5 years

it is essential that park and Rides, buses/bus lanes and safe bike paths are actioned

jk23 · 25-09-2019 5:52pm

Ashleigh1986 wrote: »

city council should open up galway airport and have a park and ride to parkmore / Boston sientific / and a separate connecting bus service into eyre square .
Charge people €2 per day for parking and bus .
Maybe companies like Boston sientific / Medtronic etc will contribute to employees paying for such a service .
Same airport could be used for Christmas shoppers visiting Christmas market .
€2 per day ain't a lot to be paying .
A regular service leaving every few minutes especially for workers would be required.
After 9 am service could go into eyre square every 15 mins .

If you or some other poster here would start a petition for this I definitely would back it and pass it on...

gordongekko · 25-09-2019 6:56pm

etxp wrote: »

You would get off at Oranmore station for Parkmore I would imagine, they could change the route of one of the Parkmore buses to go past there if there isn't one already passing by that station.

Just add a new route. Oranmore to Parkmore

Mrs OBumble · 25-09-2019 8:13pm

zell12 wrote: »

We already have limited bus lanes. Constantly used by private cars and garda don't have resources to enforce same.
People need to shift from private cars to walk, cycle, bus. Galway is quite a small place.

The lack of park-and-ride sites means that no-cars isn't an option for very many people who being cars into the city-centre.

And I say that as the biggest fan around of the public transport system.

jk23 · 25-09-2019 8:20pm

A light tram or Gluas I think would work best from the prom to the Tuam Road, that's the only idea I think would make a real difference without a railway line coming from the claregalway area

25-09-2019 8:25pm

jk23 wrote: »

A light tram or Gluas I think would work best from the prom to the Tuam Road, that's the only idea I think would make a real difference without a railway line coming from the claregalway area

Sure, but not until 2050......at the earliest

jk23 · 25-09-2019 8:30pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Sure, but not until 2050......at the earliest

True if it ever would get through the countless appeals also!

bodhrandude · 26-09-2019 1:04am

Thegalwayman wrote: »

Pedestrian lights across from the Fire Station are a joke. stuck on red for a minute when they should be green. Been like that since the day they were installed

They are worse at the Crescent going into Father Griffin Road, its stupid that Bus Eireann have a bus stop just before the lights, especially when traffic is heavy have been stuck on the bus for 10 minutes sometimes at that bit. Sometimes the bus is forced to break the red light as the 7 second green light window is just not enough to keep traffic moving in that direction a lot of the time.

Ashleigh1986 · 26-09-2019 6:02am

bodhrandude wrote: »

They are worse at the Crescent going into Father Griffin Road, its stupid that Bus Eireann have a bus stop just before the lights, especially when traffic is heavy have been stuck on the bus for 10 minutes sometimes at that bit. Sometimes the bus is forced to break the red light as the 7 second green light window is just not enough to keep traffic moving in that direction a lot of the time.

Another example of galways fxxked up traffic light sequence .
Watch the next time you are there .
Green light comes on for traffic coming from salthill direction to university hospital .
Next thing they go red , but filter light than comes on for vecihcles turning right onto the cresent .
The amount of times there are no vecihcles to turn right and you are waiting at opposite lights to go up Taylor's hill .
What happens then is if there's vecihcles turning right from Taylor's hill direction there is no space to be able to go in by them and you miss the lights .
Another example are the lights at " cookes corner " .
If you are coming up Henry street , if the first vecihcle is turning right there is no space to go in by that vecihcle so you have to wait until they make that turn .
Happens a lot that only that vehicle gets to make the right turn and rest if traffic is stuck .
So many examples in galway that there should be no right turn at some of the lights because there isn't the space to go by those vecihcles to continue your journey .
Someone in city hall needs to get their ass out of the office and be driven around the city at rush hours to see the the carnage that's been caused at a lot of these junctions . This has been going on for a long time and it's only supposingly now that they are making headlines about what they are going to do .
As ye know .... I have no faith whatsoever in these people's ability to come up with ideas to solve it .

UsBus · 26-09-2019 8:21am

spurscormac wrote: »

Drivers in Ireland in general are way to slow to react to a green.
We should really implement the sequencing they have in the UK with amber ahead of green to allow people prepare to move.
Can easily get an extra 2 cars through per lane rather than have people day dreaming at the top of the lane not ready to go on green.

I think this is a fantastic idea & would be relatively straightforward to implement. If people also knew that cars were getting ready to go on green, there mightn't be as many breaking red lights.

CurraghLiner · 26-09-2019 9:06am

xckjoo wrote: »

I've a feeling the council have increased the delay between lights changing from red on one side to green on the other because there's so many people running red lights. Just a feeling though. Never had it confirmed.

I think you're right about this. Used to be able to count 2 seconds between the light going red on one side and the next light going green. Now it's more like 4 seconds.

26-09-2019 9:52am

UsBus wrote: »

I think this is a fantastic idea & would be relatively straightforward to implement. If people also knew that cars were getting ready to go on green, there mightn't be as many breaking red lights.

It would make no difference, if you drive in the uk you will quickly realize that amber is green. If you aren’t moving off once lights go amber then you are going to have horns blaring at you.

If it’s implemented then the amber is the new green so it speeds nothing up. Just leaving the green stay on a little longer would have the same impact.

26-09-2019 9:56am

Ashleigh1986 wrote: »

Another example of galways fxxked up traffic light sequence .
Watch the next time you are there .
Green light comes on for traffic coming from salthill direction to university hospital .
Next thing they go red , but filter light than comes on for vecihcles turning right onto the cresent .
The amount of times there are no vecihcles to turn right and you are waiting at opposite lights to go up Taylor's hill .
What happens then is if there's vecihcles turning right from Taylor's hill direction there is no space to be able to go in by them and you miss the lights .
Another example are the lights at " cookes corner " .
If you are coming up Henry street , if the first vecihcle is turning right there is no space to go in by that vecihcle so you have to wait until they make that turn .
Happens a lot that only that vehicle gets to make the right turn and rest if traffic is stuck .
So many examples in galway that there should be no right turn at some of the lights because there isn't the space to go by those vecihcles to continue your journey .
Someone in city hall needs to get their ass out of the office and be driven around the city at rush hours to see the the carnage that's been caused at a lot of these junctions . This has been going on for a long time and it's only supposingly now that they are making headlines about what they are going to do .
As ye know .... I have no faith whatsoever in these people's ability to come up with ideas to solve it .

The more you post about various problems areas of Galway the more you convince me that cars should be outright banned from the city centre. Would solve virtually every issue you raise.

?Cee?view · 26-09-2019 9:59am

Deleted User wrote: »

The more you post about various problems areas of Galway the more you convince me that cars should be outright banned from the city centre. Would solve virtually every issue you raise.

Excellent idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyf97LAjjcY

26-09-2019 10:59am

Deleted User wrote: »

The more you post about various problems areas of Galway the more you convince me that cars should be outright banned from the city centre. Would solve virtually every issue you raise.

But it’s a an absolute completely impractical suggestion.

Banning cars will be far worse for most people than heavy traffic.

xckjoo · 26-09-2019 11:26am

Gwen Shallow Raccoon wrote: »

But it’s a an absolute completely impractical suggestion.

Banning cars will be far worse for most people than heavy traffic.

Anybody else old enough to remember the 90's? "Pedestrianising Shop Street will be the death of the city!"
20 odd years later and still the same faulty logic being applied.

26-09-2019 11:29am

Gwen Shallow Raccoon wrote: »

But it’s a an absolute completely impractical suggestion.

Banning cars will be far worse for most people than heavy traffic.

Not at all impractical and done many times over all over the world and in far larger cities. There is nothing about Galway that would not allow this to happen.

Naturally there would be prerequisites such as sufficient park and ride, expansion of bus lanes, cycling facilities, pedestrianised streets etc.

Galway is not a special case. Measures that have been shown to work the world over will work here.

holly8 · 26-09-2019 11:31am

claw14 wrote: »

Totally agree. I travel this road everyday (Bushypark) and it was in perfect condition. Cannot understand why they are resurfacing this road. What a waste of money. Sometimes I think they are using up budgets before year end :rolleyes::rolleyes:.

TII manage works on national roads like the N59. Not City Council.

zell12 · 26-09-2019 11:45am

Ban them cars!
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In 2018 - 70% of cars using Shop Street ‘shouldn’t be there’

what_traffic · 26-09-2019 1:16pm

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

No, it goes via Galway Clinic, which is a lot more sensible in terms of where people actually travel.

There won't be a sensible bus interlink point there until Ardaun South gets built.

404 can still cover Galway Clinic and goto Oranmore Train station via Roscam and Coast Road. Cover even more population area's rather than Dual Carraigeway(which will be faster). Thats the trade off.

what_traffic · 26-09-2019 1:21pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Not at all impractical and done many times over all over the world and in far larger cities. There is nothing about Galway that would not allow this to happen.

Naturally there would be prerequisites such as sufficient park and ride, expansion of bus lanes, cycling facilities, pedestrianised streets etc.

Galway is not a special case. Measures that have been shown to work the world over will work here.

Would start by stopping through car traffic over the 3 City Centre Bridges (Wolfe Tone, O Brien and Salmon Weir) . Not banning cars from City Centre at all. You just have to drive out the same road you drove in. Delft in Netherlands is a good example. Would free up road space for public transport.

Galway's traffic issues

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