Il rapporto del governo conclude che Ring Road non risolverà il traffico di City – Connacht Tribune

It would be cheaper to build a Luas type tram in Galway than deliver the ring road

More roads don’t solve traffic. A very well know fact …

Galway City Council are obsessed with the idea, so I imagine they’ll decide to ignore this report

Well…. technically it does, as it says in the article “congestion would decrease slightly between 2030 and 2040″…and this is where the Government stops reading, as by 2040 it will no longer be their problem….

The lifecycle of Irish urban area bypasses:

Build bypass

LA’s have a zoning party around the junctions and further out for commercial developers and housing. New retail park here, new housing estate there, just 20mins (drive) from the City!

Bypass becomes clogged at peak times with traffic from/to above

Bypass needs more lanes says local politicians and interests

Bypass upgraded for a pretty penny

More traffic from/to the above fills up the excess capacity

Local politicians and interests: We need a new outer bypass! Dublin gets everything!

See M50, N40 and indeed the original Galway ring.

The groups involved in writing these reports, and those who received the multiple tens of millions to fund various studies over the past 30 years are the real winners of the Galway city bypass scandal.

Four then it’s a gravy train that never ends.

I know Cannon, he doesn’t live anywhere near the city. It’s very easy for pundits to snipe at something from the sidelines and they won’t directly suffer from the results of what they are proposing.

A tram system will never work. More public transport is all well and good but buses still use the roads, if the roles they use are blocked up then they won’t make a blind bit of difference.

It’s a joke that because every other major city and town has decent political representation they have gotten these things decades ago, I have to begrudgingly appreciate all that Michael Ring got done for Mayo.

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Building more roads won’t solve traffic. At a time when cities are so important, and when net zero needs to be paramount, it’d be a disaster if they ploughed ahead with the ring road.

Galway needs to be a city of two or three small but frequent light rail lines.

If I was the NTA, I’d be using Galway as the perfect testing ground for some really groundbreaking research. You can’t really add much in the way of heavy rail into Galway because the way the city has grown doesn’t match the rail line at all, but build tram lines alongside the heavy rail lines in some parts?

It would enable them to provide some quite long-distance tram services to places like Athenry or potentially Ennis – and mean they could get right into the heart of these towns, thereby also providing connection hubs in each town.

Likewise, you could also build this “rail” to the western parts of the city, potentially out as far as Bearna.

No I’m sure one more lane will fix it this time!

Galway traffic is so broken that I’m not sure how any amount of roads would actually fix it. Needs some public transport solutions and get people off the road. A massive issue is most of the jobs are one side of the city and most of the housing are the other. Taking the bus also takes ages due to traffic.

We’ve known this for years. GCC have known this for years. They’re also incompetent morons with a hard on for cars. Can we just build the useless bypass at this point so idiots who think because they drive cars they’re transport engineers will shut up about it? Then we might finally get some progress.

Is there anything to be said for another ring road? God, I love ring roads.