It’s scandalous how long they’ve been waiting for the ring road.
ring road and busconnects pl0x ty
Welcome to Ireland ☘️
Almost as if they have a council that is diametrically opposed to any active travel and public transport options, basically guaranteeing everyone who wants to go anywhere is going there in a car.
No surprise to anyone living in Galway. It’s insane.
Galway council: we tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!
Been saying that for years on here. Dublin is bad but at least at times there’s a feeling like you’re moving. Galway on the other hand. Lough Atalia is like the hotel california. Headford Road just as bad. Population of Galway grew but the infrastructure stayed the same. I’ve family in Knocknacarra and the road in from Salthill is bordering on a country road considering the population
Councilor don’t know anything about Urban design. You’re average councilor believes that traffic can be reduced by low population density and more infrastructure for cars. Not realizing that this just makes it more likely people drive.
I would question how much infrastructure funds have been lost in Galway due to disagreement within the city and county council. If you look at Limerick, Cork and Dublin City there seems to be progress with both bike, bus and car infrastructure. In Galway it looks like nothing has changed.
Light rail and double tracking Ceannt Station to Athenry would solve it.
I drive to Galway regularly, I started parking at my friends house on the outskirts and take a bus in. No crazy fees, no traffic.
Traffic is atrocious and public transport is stymied by choke points. For instance, say you’re getting the 409 home to doughiska from town, a bus lane only starts at the Dublin road, so the bus is stuck in congestion from eyre square to Dublin road. On the Dublin road brilliant….except bus lane ends at the Connaught hotel, back to sitting in congestion all the way to doughiska. A main artery road like Dublin road should have a double bus lane in both directions. And the city itself should have a dedicated bus corridor to get to these arteries. If public transport was reliable you’d take a lot of locals out of that traffic.
And not even 90k people living there according to the last census.
Queue all the “roads aren’t the answer brigade”. Big ring road for Galway would go a long way to fixing this.
Just one more lane, will fix traffic forever.
Forget about induced demand and how adding lanes has never worked ever. Forget active transport solutions that work all over the world. Galway is unique and just adding one more lane well fix it forever.
All the fucking mé féiner townie amadáns in r/Galway get the horn every time they dogpile their down votes on anyone from the county crying out for the bypass/ringroad.
They’re absolutely mind bogglingly up their own hole on this issue.
Same clowns insist closing off the Salmon Weir bridge to private traffic during peak hours is a good idea and won’t make traffic any worse.
Cyclists are a law unto themselves in Galway too, and I say that as a cyclist, but criticising lawless & dangerous cyclist behaviour in r/Galway will also get you dogpiled.
/Rant
One section of the bus lane in Westside has some strange gravel on top of it since the day it was made so the buses and taxis have to remerge with normal traffic. Its pure genius.
What is an absolute joke is they’re still handing out planning permission for housing estates without the traffic issue resolved. There are hundreds of houses currently being built in headford and in knocknacaara……how are these people going to get to work? Public bus service is abysmal and then this will put even more cars on the roads that are already choked. I just don’t understand why there isn’t some brains used for town planning
Anyone who has ever lived or worked there will be able to testify to that.
For a city of its size it has absolutely no business being as fucked up as it is. It’s like LA was condensed down to a tiny town and it feels just as awful getting around.
The Northern and Western regions are poor. Always have been. We’ve gotten fucked on almost everything historically. The smart ones move to wealthier counties/countries and the rest stay, leading to poor engagement and mismanagement. We receive a fraction of the funding for infrastructure projects that everyone else does, partially because we’d mismanage anything larger.
Hopefully in the coming decades these regions will improve incrementally to the point where the smart ones will stick around. In the meantime, we’ll all be in gridlock.
If they ran a train every hour instead of every two and past 6 pm you’d see a big improvement. In fact if they just ran the trains until 12 we’d see a massive improvement
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It’s scandalous how long they’ve been waiting for the ring road.
ring road and busconnects pl0x ty
Welcome to Ireland ☘️
Almost as if they have a council that is diametrically opposed to any active travel and public transport options, basically guaranteeing everyone who wants to go anywhere is going there in a car.
No surprise to anyone living in Galway. It’s insane.
Galway council: we tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!
Blame this lot and the people who voted them in [https://www.galwaycity.ie/council-members](https://www.galwaycity.ie/council-members)
Been saying that for years on here. Dublin is bad but at least at times there’s a feeling like you’re moving. Galway on the other hand. Lough Atalia is like the hotel california. Headford Road just as bad. Population of Galway grew but the infrastructure stayed the same. I’ve family in Knocknacarra and the road in from Salthill is bordering on a country road considering the population
Councilor don’t know anything about Urban design. You’re average councilor believes that traffic can be reduced by low population density and more infrastructure for cars. Not realizing that this just makes it more likely people drive.
I would question how much infrastructure funds have been lost in Galway due to disagreement within the city and county council. If you look at Limerick, Cork and Dublin City there seems to be progress with both bike, bus and car infrastructure. In Galway it looks like nothing has changed.
Light rail and double tracking Ceannt Station to Athenry would solve it.
I drive to Galway regularly, I started parking at my friends house on the outskirts and take a bus in. No crazy fees, no traffic.
Traffic is atrocious and public transport is stymied by choke points. For instance, say you’re getting the 409 home to doughiska from town, a bus lane only starts at the Dublin road, so the bus is stuck in congestion from eyre square to Dublin road. On the Dublin road brilliant….except bus lane ends at the Connaught hotel, back to sitting in congestion all the way to doughiska. A main artery road like Dublin road should have a double bus lane in both directions. And the city itself should have a dedicated bus corridor to get to these arteries. If public transport was reliable you’d take a lot of locals out of that traffic.
And not even 90k people living there according to the last census.
Queue all the “roads aren’t the answer brigade”. Big ring road for Galway would go a long way to fixing this.
Just one more lane, will fix traffic forever.
Forget about induced demand and how adding lanes has never worked ever. Forget active transport solutions that work all over the world. Galway is unique and just adding one more lane well fix it forever.
All the fucking mé féiner townie amadáns in r/Galway get the horn every time they dogpile their down votes on anyone from the county crying out for the bypass/ringroad.
They’re absolutely mind bogglingly up their own hole on this issue.
Same clowns insist closing off the Salmon Weir bridge to private traffic during peak hours is a good idea and won’t make traffic any worse.
Cyclists are a law unto themselves in Galway too, and I say that as a cyclist, but criticising lawless & dangerous cyclist behaviour in r/Galway will also get you dogpiled.
/Rant
One section of the bus lane in Westside has some strange gravel on top of it since the day it was made so the buses and taxis have to remerge with normal traffic. Its pure genius.
What is an absolute joke is they’re still handing out planning permission for housing estates without the traffic issue resolved. There are hundreds of houses currently being built in headford and in knocknacaara……how are these people going to get to work? Public bus service is abysmal and then this will put even more cars on the roads that are already choked. I just don’t understand why there isn’t some brains used for town planning
Anyone who has ever lived or worked there will be able to testify to that.
For a city of its size it has absolutely no business being as fucked up as it is. It’s like LA was condensed down to a tiny town and it feels just as awful getting around.
The Northern and Western regions are poor. Always have been. We’ve gotten fucked on almost everything historically. The smart ones move to wealthier counties/countries and the rest stay, leading to poor engagement and mismanagement. We receive a fraction of the funding for infrastructure projects that everyone else does, partially because we’d mismanage anything larger.
Hopefully in the coming decades these regions will improve incrementally to the point where the smart ones will stick around. In the meantime, we’ll all be in gridlock.
If they ran a train every hour instead of every two and past 6 pm you’d see a big improvement. In fact if they just ran the trains until 12 we’d see a massive improvement
Monorail
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