Galway Cycling Solutions

05/12/2024

Last chance to have your say on the Oranmore to Train Travel Scheme

Following our information leaflet advertised online on 13/03/2024 - 25/04/2024 (Information Leaflet No. 1), a preferred route has been selected. Please see drawings attached. We now invite you to share your views on this proposal.

10/09/2024

More ‘not green greenways’ being proposed before a commuter cycling network or public transport is sorted out

Public consultation is now open for the Cork to Kinsale Greenway project. Have your say on the route options before 13th October.

10/09/2024

Discussions on light rail, greenways, etc.

An open discussion on developing a sustainable transport system for Galway is to take place at the University of Galway tomorrow week This free-to-attend event from 7 to 8.30pm is hosted by the Engineers Ireland West Region and the University and is part of UG’s Sustainable Development Goals Week ...

11/04/2024

Have your say on the Oranmore village to train station plans here …

https://www.galway.ie/en/media/Info%20Leaflet%20-%20Oranmore%20to%20Train%20Station.pdf

Do you have an opinion on the Oranmore R338 - Oranmore Train Station Active Travel route? Galway County Council are looking for your feedback on the proposed design, so get your ideas into them before 25th April to [email protected] 📝

Rosshill/Roscam Residents Association Galway Cycling Galway Cycling Solutions I Bike Oranmore The Wheels Of Athenry



https://www.galway.ie/en/media/Info%20Leaflet%20-%20Oranmore%20to%20Train%20Station.pdf

25/11/2023

Can we really afford NOT to invest in safer cycling?

21/10/2023

More/better public transport = less traffic = safer roads ✔️

A Galway West TD has called on Transport Minister, Eamon Ryan, to ‘clear the air’ on the publication of the review of the Galway Transport Strategy which is due to be completed by the end of this year. Former minister, Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív, tabled a Dáil question earlier this month to the Tra...

20/10/2023

Reason given by RPS for quitting the contract “due to the complexity and scale of the 200km Preferred Route together with upward market pressures in recent years, RPS have advised Westmeath County Council that the project is no longer financially viable for the company”
Is there any better proof that this project is flawed beyond repair & needs to be restarted with a better code of conduct & 1 that will be adhered to?

A “drastic rethink” of the proposed Athlone to Galway Cycleway will be required to gain the support of landowners, according to a local farming group.

22/09/2023

Perhaps common sense will prevail somewhere now & this entire project will be restarted with intent to facilitate the children & adults of this county by building safe cycling & walking routes connecting homes to the villages & towns and to Galway City.
All this can be achieved quickly, with the engagement of the people, without causing unnecessary environmental & social disasters at a high cost
Galway City Council Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune TG4 East Galway Greenway Action Group Coastal Action Group Kilcolgan Greenway Action Group I Bike Oranmore Rosshill/Roscam Residents Association MÓR Action The Galway Advertiser Irish Rural Association Barroughter And Clonmoylan Bogs Action Group Councillor Geraldine Donohue Cllr. Martina Kinane Fine Gael Green Party Ireland Fianna Fáil Eamon Ryan Virgin Media Ireland The Wheels Of Athenry Ciaran Cannon Cllr Alan CurranJoe Byrne Councillor Cllr Liam Carroll Cllr. Clodagh Higgins Mayor of Galway - Cllr. Eddie H***e Cllr. Peter Keane Cllr Michael ‘Moegie’ Maher Cllr Jimmy McClearn Cllr. PJ Murphy Cllr Andrew Reddington Cllr. Mike Cubbard Cllr. Shane Curley Cllr Michael Connolly Cllr. Gabe Cronnelly Cllr. Albert Dolan Cllr Shelly Herterich Quinn Cllr. Alan Cheevers Fianna Fáil Cllr. Declan McDonnell Cllr Frank Fahy Cllr John Connolly Cllr Dónal Lyons Cllr. Niall Murphy - Green Party, Galway City West Hildegarde Naughton T.D. Éamon Ó Cuív TD Sean Canney TD Anne Rabbitte TD Marian Harkin Maria Walsh Luke 'Ming' Flanagan MEP

Six weeks after the opening of the new cycleway bridge in Athlone, plans to extend the route to Galway have been dealt a major setback with the main consultant suspending its work on the project.