Galway traffic

What weight of goods do you think needs to be carried into a city that has a very strong hospitality sector?

This is a picture from mid-October. Not a bank holiday, or race week, arts-fest, Paddy's, Christmas, etc. How many full kegs could each van or bicycle manage? How much extra time would it take just to receive a delivery that arrived in far smaller lots?

jayzus... get real. these green folks need to wake up out of their dreamland or there won't be any jobs at all as it would be too expensive to buy a simple pint.

1 truck with driver can deliver to multiple places. But some green folk with a hairbrained idea thinks it makes sense for a truck to stop at a point lets say 4 miles away from the intended delivery locations to break down their load where then 3-5 (or more) people would take their cargo bikes or vans to the destination...... I'm not saying it can't be done but the costs of all that would be enormous for any business to absorb.

I would add to above that, perhaps most crucially, it has to be coupled with some measure to deter cars from driving past it towards the city centre. That could be many things, a toll or congestion charge, a lengthy diversion with more road space given to sustainable modes, a punitive parking charge or simply ban through movements for cars in the city centre.

P&R often fails because if you are already in your car, there is little natural incentive to get out of it and use a park and ride. It has to be part of more far reaching measures.

P and R doesn't really work that way when there's nothing stopping you completing your journey by car.

The city centre is not necessarily the problem which is to be solved by a p&r in Galway - which is part of what makes things challenging.

If we try to include sticks, they are likely to have a lot of unintended consequences, and to generate negative publicity which could get the whole idea canned.

Another new pedestrian bridge?

I'm all for bridges, but what is the rationale here?

The rationale for the bridge under construction now is that the Salmon Weir bridge is very narrow.

Is this proposed bridge linked to the redevelopment of the NUI Galway buildings on Nun's island?

Any talk about using the old railway bridge bases for a new bridge?

There arent any other positions that make it more viable either - the reality is when walking into town from NUIG or University road you will take the new salmon weir bridge as its quickest, and same in opposite direction.

If going to lower part of nuns island from city you go via obriens bridge. The only scenario where a middle bridge would be useful is if your journey started in the cathedral car park.

They could do so much more with the money they'd spend on another bridge, building for the sake of building something is not a good excuse