Galway Commuters

The minister should be fighting for extra current funding at a cabinet level. These are not mutually exclusive things.

We can have both.

As reported in the below link funding from the Government has been secured to progress the Corrib greenway bridge to planning.

This is a great development and we'd like to thank everyone for their attention to this matter and Cllr. Hoare for announcing the good news.

irishcycle.com/2026/02/27/f...

Galway councillor claims RSA messaging amounts to ‘victim blaming’ – ‘Children are not killed because of a lack of high-vis vests’ A Galway councillor has called for a “no confidence” vote and a major overhaul of the Road Safety Authority (RSA), claiming its education campaigns place responsibility on vulnerable road users rather...

7 deaths on our roads over the weekend including a 16 y/o girl walking her dog.

Why the obsession over hi-vis? Why the reduction in active travel funding?
Where are the 30km/h zones?
Where are the red light cameras?
Why no enforcement?
Why aren't intelligent speed systems default on new cars?

Ok. You're right. But why stop at cyclists? Let's make pedestrians wear high-vis and helmets too! It's safer right? Actually, let's make absolutely everyone wear high-vis and helmets at all times everywhere (except people in cars obviously!) so people driving cars feel better

Thanks for speaking out on this issue Ciarán

Cases pursued against drivers are rare.

knocked off my bike on my way to work,full high‑vis gear. As I lay on the road waiting for the ambulance, the driver admitted she hadn’t seen me. The Gardaí never arrived. I spent 12 weeks on crutches with soft‑tissue injuries. I could have died.

Yesterday we spoke to the Oireachtas Committee on Transport & we highlighted the various failings of this Government on road safety

The ongoing failure of Vision Zero

The Systemic failure of the RSA

And the impact of Default 30kph U-Turn

I was wearing hi vis when a motorist drove into me. Passengers in the car got out to tell me the driver was really upset because she didn't see me. I didn't have much sympathy as I was picking gravel out of my hands.

I was visible. She didn't look.

Bye bye TFI bikes, you were so useful 🥲.

Dead by the hand of a minister who ignores evidence and makes decisions based only on vibes.

Helmets and hi-vis clothing to be made mandatory for e-bikes and e-scooter users Cabinet will sign off on plans to explicitly ban the use of scramblers on roads this morning.

It's great to see such sensible priorities in road safety.

We are all just so sick of the constant & stringent Garda patrols catching the speeding and distracted drivers that evidence shows kills.

Instead they should be tackling children on their ride to school!

www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...

New research finds negligible benefit from "minimum passing distance" laws requiring drivers to give cyclists space when overtaking them.

Protected bike lanes are far more effective.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Hundreds of places in Galway where a small, collaborative CPO could make active travel safer & more pleasant.

If other cities can do it, why can't we?

The summary report on the proposed bus gate in Bun a chnoic / cnoc an Óir came in. And for a quick summary :

Brian Caulfield: Storm Chandra commuter chaos is made far worse by a dysfunctional transport system Aftermath of Storm Chandra has shown once again that in an era of increased extreme weather events, our infrastructure is not fit for purpose

A lessons the past 12 months has taught us about our creaking transport networks is that they are extremely vulnerable. The aftermath of Storm Chandra has shown us, again, that in an era of increased extreme weather events, our infrastructure is not fit for purpose
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Rail advocacy groups call on Iarnród Éireann to abandon X amid Grok controversy Four commuter advocacy groups have jointly written to Iarnród Éireann requesting that the company relocate its service updates from X (formerly Twitter) to its own official channels.

Reporting from the indo on this:

@seontrack.bsky.social @dublincommuters.bsky.social

m.independent.ie/regionals/du...

God this storm is brutal, let me check the only place I can reliably see if my train is delayed...

NTA continues to force Irish Rail to stay on X despite child sexual abuse material scandal Irish and international experts have said social media platform X was generating child sexual abuse material, as well as nonconsensual "undressing" images of adults, but the National Transport Authority (NTA) is continuing to hold Irish Rail to a contractual obligation to post updates and to reply to messages on the platform formally known as Twitter. The NTA's lack of movement on the issue reflects the Irish Government's position to stay on X, but the authority did not answer questions relating to whether there has been any mandate from Governmenal level or if it would remove the contractual obligation put on Irish Rail as a public service obligation provider.

NTA continues to force Irish Rail to stay on X despite child sexual abuse material scandal

Irish and international experts have said social media platform X was generating child sexual abuse material, as well as nonconsensual "undressing" images of adults, but the National Transport Authority…

We fixed your headline for you RTE

The driver killed the woman with his vehicle… please speak to your editors

www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

If any policymakers or campaigners in Ireland want to discuss the evidence base for these policies I'm happy to talk

Also relevant is our loading gauge, which is a good bit larger than the UKs. We rarely make use of it mind you...

It was a sensible enough decision when every large railway would build their own rolling stock & it was going to be a totally self contained network (still is).

Not so sensible in hindsight when we have allowed rolling stock manufacturing to be controlled by ~5 companies...

Unfortunately true, we can't buy off the shelf vehicles like other countries can.

We can buy existing train designs and change the bogie size though, this is what's happening with DART+.

You're not dropped from the team. You're just not on the list, you're not getting a jersey and you won't be there on Sunday 😉

Council aims to bridge funding gap Galway City Council is intent on progressing a pedestrian and bicycle link across the stone abutments of the former Clifden Railway Bridge, despite national funding cancelled for this piece of the Con...

Interesting to see how this pans out

"Galway City Council is intent on progressing a pedestrian and bicycle link across the stone abutments of the former Clifden Railway Bridge, despite national funding cancelled for this piece of the Connemara Greenway"

www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

We've all been at a station waiting for a cancelled train with no way of knowing.

IÉ and the NTA can and must do better

Ireland's dangerous roads: When cars come first, everyone loses Sadhbh O’ Neill says that the reduction of road deaths in Ireland is being strangled by a lack of political courage.

Sadhbh O’ Neill says that the reduction of road deaths in Ireland is being strangled by a lack of political courage.
@sadhbhoneill.bsky.social
@thejournal.ie

www.thejournal.ie/readme/irela...

The cars need more space when there are fewer of them?

Self-defeating logic that only undermines bus lane compliance.

A day rarely goes by where we don't see a car in a bus lane, usually out the front window of the bus...

And it's the only place that we can get up to date information of Public Transport delays. You know, the abuse imagery & Nazi website?

Maybe a little exaggeration but not by much...

This would honestly be more useful communication than @irishrail.bsky.social currently have...