Sure weâve only spent the last decade ripping up every rural Trainline in the country and turning them into cycle paths.
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Today has been a game changer for transport in ireland
It will lead to less traffic. An electronic train wonât really help in these circumstances due to geography of the city, the urban planning which has left the vast majority of the industry east of the river, and the desire to reduce traffic in the city itself.
The problem to a very large extent imho has been the frankly bizarre insistence on road frontage for housing, forcing utterly inefficient use of land and spread of community across the country.
Galway also has the issue that UCG have been basically allowed to buy what they want and build what they want, leaving a massive nonsensical campus sprawling for miles up the West Bank.
In any case, suburban Galway is too spread out, and too badly designed for a monorail to make significant impact. Unlike Dublin, most of the work isnât in the city.
sorry, the evidence suggests that roads lead to induced demand, ABP agreeing to this is a lot different than the DOT agreeing to this, Even if they did agree to it, the legal challenges will take years
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They might. I doubt it though. The public consultation was enormous and far reaching. Itâs actually a road you are completely wrong about, and would have no idea about, living as you do in Dublin.
@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy is correct on this.
The road is not wanted.
Galway needs an electronic street train system.
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Not wanted by you mate. Absolutely wanted by the majority, but you are a supreme narcissist.
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I live in the area that would supposedly âbenefitâ most from it.
It isnât wanted.
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By you.
Sin e.
Lols.
The strong general feeling in the area is of it not being wanted, and also being unnecessary.
Neither will it lead to less traffic. I suppose as somebody originally from very near M50 I would have the many years of personal experience of how a radial motorway changes traffic and development dynamics.
One thing the mooted Galway ring road will very much not do is decrease traffic. It will heavily increase it.
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yeah because motorway tourism is a booming sector, it will displace traffic out of the city centre which is what you loons want, so you can not cycle your bikes on the very expensive cycle paths that will be laid out and instead cycle on the roads where the cars are
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Lads in Dublin which has a ring road and tunnel telling lads in Galway they need to stick to driving on medieval streets.
If the M50 causes so much traffic then they should just close it.
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Eamon Ryan is going to turn it into a giant lettuce bed
it doesnât cause traffic. Itâs just the best option for some since they made such a complete fuck of the luas that only serves the well off suburbs of leafy south dublin where theyâd all prefer to take their expensive SUVâs on the M50
Ring roads attract ribbon development. There is zero reason to think this one would be any different.
Galwayâs bus service is rubbish. Routes run only every 30 minutes, usually stop for 10 minutes when they reach Eyre Square, and there are very few bus lanes in the city. It should be the top priority for the city to bring the bus service up to standard.
have you given up on the dinky trains already?
nobody takes public transport in Ireland because the City is already full of traffic and it is too expensive. The car is always the cheapest and quickest option.
Iâm fully in favour of an electronic street train system. But that takes years to build.
You can bring the bus service up to standard in a much shorter time frame.
The pillars for a new bridge across the Corrib which could be used by light rail or buses are already there.
and how will the people get into the city mate? no point having a state of the art city transport and everyone stuck in traffic on the routes in. Galway 100% needs a ring road