Galway traffic

No, it does not have to go back to square one, or anything like it.

The Environmental Impact Statement needs to be updated for the parameters of the national climate action plan and to demonstrate the overall emissions reductions that alleviating traffic congestion in the City will produce. Simple job, resubmit to ABP in the new year.

The blame?

Nutjob objectors.

The blame is with the City Council Executive IMO. They're all from rural county councils, they don't know how to plan for a city. They've pinned everything on this silver bullet "one more road" project.

Easy to see why Galway is struggling with this issue for years. Two people who purport to have Galway's best interest at heart go on the national airways and are utterly divided (only thing they agreed on was the incorrect number of bridges across the city). Blinkered and unable to compromise while talking over each other. Not to mention neither are in any position to influence the top table. That interview is forgettable.

Divided we stand.

The green party front and center, remember them at election time folks, starve them of transfers.

Cllr Eddie Hoare is checking which way the wind is blowing

Looks like it's narrowing to a pretty even split.

In relation to the quashed planning this week.

Living in Galway almost twenty years at this stage and this project has been going on that long and longer.

There is absolutely no point in revisiting s ring road. Tens of millions have gotten us nowhere and there will always be a lobby group or group of objectors that will go all the way to stop it. With a project of this size and complexity unless the entire process is completely water tight some legal or procedural anomaly with the documentation or process will alway be found by a group with the motivation to delay or ultimately stop it.

Plans for housing on top of existing houses in towns and villages just outside the city as well as significantly development in the city are going to add significantly to the traffic problems the city has.

The city has shown itself to be totally incompetent when it comes to planning public travel and cycle infrastructure with the Salthill cycle way being the latest.

It's obvious to me that things are not going to improve in the place for decades. If you can accept that and find a way for yourself to tolerate it or make things better for you, great. If not it's probably time to look at alternative life and work arrangements.

I would have been heavily in favour of this infrastructure however with the reality that it will never be built the focus has to move to other solutions.

Solution is not to design transport infrastructure around private cars. Horse has already bolted with a lot of scattered housing around the county. They'll probably always need cars to get to their front doors, but we can have transport hubs in areas outside the city (e.g Moycullen or Claregalway) where people move from cars to more efficient transport like PT. People in denser population areas closer to city centre might get away without ever needing a car.

Don't think there's any truth to the people against the ring road not being from/living in Galway. You see the same couple of people trotting it out when they've no actual arguments in favor of the road to make. Plays on people's emotions and tribalism but doubt there's any truth to it.

What were the fears around Mutton Island? People are swimming in Sh£% in Galway Bay for many parts of the year in 2022 so perhaps some of those fears were well founded. It was already at capacity when built; another project that wasn't future-proofed?

Lorry loads of shyte driven through the streets, overwhelming foul odours, extra flooding to name just a few of the scare stories emanating from the greens,most city beaches have had blue flag status in recent years, something we never had pre mutton island, green objections ensured Galway city citizens had unsafe beaches for most of the 80's and 90's.

The pace of growth of the city contributed to the capacity issues but it is also accepted that green objections causing the 20 YEAR delay in construction exacerbated the situation.

Ah, the cross city link,no doubt the Greens will be supporting the 31 property owners who face compulsory purchase orders to create this bus lane, after all the Greens were very vocal when the property owners on the route of the by pass faced the same issues, but we all know the greens and their hypocrisy so it wont happen, some CPO's good according to greens.

https://connachttribune.ie/plans-lodged-for-cross-city-bus-route-for-galway-linking-east-and-west/

"If we didnt have blue flags the greens would be screaming , not that we do its a fix"

I'm not associated with the greens by the way!!

I apologise if you think I called you a Green Party member, I sometimes use the the term"greens" as a catch all for serial objectors and scaremongerers.