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Meanwhile, in Galway, we've been talking *for decades* about how it might be nice to have a pedestrian/cycle bridge over the piers of the old railway line to Clifden, which was shut down in 1935.

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Meanwhile, in Galway, we've been talking *for decades* about how it might be nice to have a pedestrian/cycle bridge over the piers of the old railway line to Clifden, which was shut down in 1935.

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YouTube video by The Wilk Report Michael Moore interviews Tony Benn

Govern in the sense of "restrain" or "control" presumably?

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Important thread 🧵 #news #agenda

@aarnegranlund.bsky.social Your thoughts on this thread?

The man who put the arse in arsenal.

Hope also has mouthguards.

Hopefully.

Meanwhile, in the West of Ireland...

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Pentagon Press Conference Cold Open - SNL

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Completely normal, though in this case not also illegal.

The souvenir sticker was picked up somewhere else. The same contraption must have been parked at a prominent spot for maximum advertising impact, while also getting in people's way. It's a GAA promotion. The GAA is exempt from parking laws. 😉

Excellent piece by @irishcycle.com.

The RTE headline screams "nothing more can be done."

But TII didn’t say that. They've done what they can with engineering.

Other measures need a government policy decision. That’s a very different message from "we’re out of options".

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Excellent piece by @irishcycle.com.

The RTE headline screams "nothing more can be done."

But TII didn’t say that. They've done what they can with engineering.

Other measures need a government policy decision. That’s a very different message from "we’re out of options".

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The invasion of Ukraine will never happen, and will continue until 2030.

Whichever comes first.

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Nuremberg 2.0

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

You'll recall Seán O'Neill of TII referring to policy matters that are not their baliwick.

This is what TII has been doing for many years.

They *know* about "suppressed demand" & induced traffic. But they continue with doomed road construction projects, because politics.

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The best way to reduce congestion is to give people good alternatives to driving. This is why it is so disappointing to see the government put the DART+ South West scheme on the long finger.

One of the participants in the report (a car commuter from Cavan) spoke about school traffic on the M50!

School traffic, on a motorway planned as a strategic bypass of the capital city!

If drivers already felt that they were paying too much, they wouldn't be there.

It was bonkers.

A wasted opportunity.

A huge amount of air time spent on telling us what we already know (the M50 is the most congested road in the country!) and on promoting more roads as the alleged solution.

No time allocated to examining root causes or discussing more sustainable solutions.

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Finally got round to watching it.

Useless programme.

Just @rteone.rte.ie shilling for the roads lobby yet again.

Zero attempt to address root causes such as car dependence, urban sprawl and induced traffic.

Suggested solutions strongly emphasised the same failed policies, only more so.

#Salthill #Souvenirs

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Has @cyclinginkilkenny.bsky.social considered taking a senior role with TII? 😉

Their corporate strategy seems to consist of (a) acknowledging that major road schemes unleash 'suppressed' travel demand, and (b) proposing more of the same to address the impacts of induced traffic.

Is more congestion in Cork City an inevitability? New report suggests we need to be far more ambitious about increasing public transport — or we remain doomed to sit in traffic

Luckily we have Ciarán Ferrie, who is not shy about pointing out the bloody obvious.

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'An extraordinary engineering achievement': Cork's Dunkettle Interchange opens Peak-hour journey times through the notorious Dunkettle Interchange have been slashed by almost 50% it has been claimed

@cosaingalway.bsky.social on Twitter made some attempts to draw these matters to the attention of Eoin English of @irishexaminer.bsky.social.

Answer came there none.

Irish news media love reporting on shiny new road schemes. Induced traffic, not so much.

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December 2024: TII explicitly acknowledges the impact of the Dunkettle Interchange "upgrade" on the demand for travel on
the N40 in the westbound direction, in the full knowledge that the network capacity increase was "facilitating the release of significant latent demand".

In 2017, TII at least gave lip service to the need for Demand Management on the N40.

However, what emerges from TII's reports is a passive attitude to spatial & transport planning. Suburban sprawl just happens somehow, and TII takes no responsibility for or active role in addressing induced demand.

Lots of transport-related news in the Galway City Tribune, as always. This particular story illustrates the abject dysfunction which permeates our "planning" system. Why is the head of national government talking about a local bus service? How can there be no improvement in the service "since 1996"?