That road will fuck Galway up even more than it currently is.
Must be a nightmare trying to sort all the CPO’s on all of the properties on the route.
More roads = more cars
*”Planning and design of the current N6 Galway City Ring Road scheme has cost €21.3m to date, while the previous bypass proposal, which was abandoned nine years ago, had run up bills totalling €14.7m.”*
*”Obviously the actual costs will be many, many millions more than that … probably about €1 billion, and those costs will continue to rise the longer we have to wait for work to start,” Deputy Grealish pointed out.”*
2 billion and we’ll call it done. 😉
Every few weeks this comes up here and the same knuckle dragging gobshites start moaning on about their profound realisation that more roads = more cars based on reading a wiki page once. This is in spite of years and years of engineering reports stating the road is badly needed as part of a wider transport strategy. It’s absolutely textbook NIMBY behaviour mixed with the militant cyclist brigade. It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic and is made worse by the fact that most of the vocal objections are from people living elsewhere who don’t use/ own a car to navigate the city. Some hard cold truths: this will eventually happen despite you blocking progress. People will continue to use private vehicles. Get over it.
The issue in Galway is that people are too wedded to cars. I lived in Newcastle / Greenfields while doing a master’s in NUIG. My housemate worked in the Body Shop in the city centre, which was not far away.
She could have cycled it in 10 minutes, bussed in 15 minutes, or walked in 25 – 30 minutes. Instead she drove to the cathedral car park, then walked the last bit. There are thousands of people doing the same.
I think the bet solution for the city would be to focus on every mode of transport other than cars. The city centre is not built for cars, it should be set aside only for pedestrians and bikes. An outer zone should be set aside for only buses and taxis. All parking in the city centre should be prohibitively priced. Large car parks should be created on all the main commuter routes – Barna, Moycullen, Claregalway, Oranmore – with shuttle buses to the city centre and university. It’s an ideal city for an east-west tram line. Pedestrian and cycle facilities should be improved around all schools.
It’s a lot, but it’s the only way to solve it. The problem in Galway is the dominance of cars, and another road is not going to magically solve it.
It’s a great pity, because Galway is my favourite city in Ireland, but the traffic would make my line of work impossible
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Good. Spend that money on light rail.
That road will fuck Galway up even more than it currently is.
Must be a nightmare trying to sort all the CPO’s on all of the properties on the route.
More roads = more cars
*”Planning and design of the current N6 Galway City Ring Road scheme has cost €21.3m to date, while the previous bypass proposal, which was abandoned nine years ago, had run up bills totalling €14.7m.”*
*”Obviously the actual costs will be many, many millions more than that … probably about €1 billion, and those costs will continue to rise the longer we have to wait for work to start,” Deputy Grealish pointed out.”*
2 billion and we’ll call it done. 😉
Every few weeks this comes up here and the same knuckle dragging gobshites start moaning on about their profound realisation that more roads = more cars based on reading a wiki page once. This is in spite of years and years of engineering reports stating the road is badly needed as part of a wider transport strategy. It’s absolutely textbook NIMBY behaviour mixed with the militant cyclist brigade. It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic and is made worse by the fact that most of the vocal objections are from people living elsewhere who don’t use/ own a car to navigate the city. Some hard cold truths: this will eventually happen despite you blocking progress. People will continue to use private vehicles. Get over it.
The issue in Galway is that people are too wedded to cars. I lived in Newcastle / Greenfields while doing a master’s in NUIG. My housemate worked in the Body Shop in the city centre, which was not far away.
She could have cycled it in 10 minutes, bussed in 15 minutes, or walked in 25 – 30 minutes. Instead she drove to the cathedral car park, then walked the last bit. There are thousands of people doing the same.
I think the bet solution for the city would be to focus on every mode of transport other than cars. The city centre is not built for cars, it should be set aside only for pedestrians and bikes. An outer zone should be set aside for only buses and taxis. All parking in the city centre should be prohibitively priced. Large car parks should be created on all the main commuter routes – Barna, Moycullen, Claregalway, Oranmore – with shuttle buses to the city centre and university. It’s an ideal city for an east-west tram line. Pedestrian and cycle facilities should be improved around all schools.
It’s a lot, but it’s the only way to solve it. The problem in Galway is the dominance of cars, and another road is not going to magically solve it.
It’s a great pity, because Galway is my favourite city in Ireland, but the traffic would make my line of work impossible