REMINDER: By-election "traffic & congestion hustings" this evening, Wednesday 15th April 2026 at 7pm. Venue: Park House Hotel, H91 PCF8. All candidates have confirmed attendance. Via @galwaycommuters.bsky.social

Tonights the big night! Hope to see you all at 7pm sharp tonight #ireland #galway

We are Calling for End to Infrastructural Stasis with Coming of Ring Road Clarity. Read our latest press release here: galwaycommuters.ie/news/2026-04...

Fuels counter-protest this evening! ⏰ 5.10pm 📍 Garden of Remembrance 🚲 Cycle to Dáil End fossil fuel dependence 🌏

April 15th. The mindset behind our transport choices over the past few decades needs to be interrogated. Galway has been left behind when it comes to transport, with knock-on effects to our health, safety, housing and sustainability. Come along and put questions to our election candidates.

Big news 📣📣. April 15th in the park house hotel were hosting a meeting on transport traffic congestion and all things stopping you getting to work or school on time.

In 2025 an Irish pedestrian, motorcyclist, cyclist or e-scooter user was killed on average every 4 days and I fear that this year will be even worse

We've been hearing about plans for decades. The bus corridors are through planning, they just need funding. Why has the government neglected to provide it? Must we stay in traffic forever? www.rte.ie/news/connach...

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...

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

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.

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 :

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...

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…

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

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 😉

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

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?

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

Good coverage on the apparent cancellation of future work on Wexford-Waterford line by @thejournal.ie this morning. We urgently need some clarity from the Department of Transport and the Minister. www.thejournal.ie/rail-review-...

The government's approach to road safety is legitimately this:

Another delay for Galway BusConnects We are deeply disappointed to discover that the timeline for Galway's long-awaited new bus network has been pushed back yet again. Read our press release: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Having to go on Twitter for public transport updates in the Year of Our Lord 2025 is just madness.

If losing the LUAS causes this much traffic chaos imagine how much it could prevent in Galway...

The City Council has a great idea to easily improve the bus network (rare) and it could use your support... You can view our response here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... You can make your own response here: consult.galwaycity.ie/en/consultat...

REMINDER: Our official Relaunch & AGM will be held in Murray's Coffee House in Salthill at 7pm tomorrow evening.

The LUAS Red Line was thrown into chaos at rush hour this evening due to an incident at St James's. In order to find out what was going on with the service, the LUAS expected thousands of affected passengers to check their X account. It's ridiculous, enraging, and at this stage totally unacceptable

Hi everyone, We'd like to extend an invite to you for our Official Relaunch & AGM. It will be held in Murray's Coffee House in Salthill at 7pm on the 4th of December

VITAL BRIDGE CANCELLED - CONTACT YOUR TD Measuring the number of people who will use the bridge by the number that currently swim... 1/4 connachttribune.ie/nta-pulls-fu...

Delighted to have got a chance to meet the West on Track and GLUAS campaigns this evening. We're all working to transform how we get around Galway, Connacht and the whole island. Some nice light reading for us on the bus home! 😄

GALWAY TO MAYO RAIL LINK FUNDED Some good news for Galway's railway. The Minister of State for Transport Seán Canney announced that funding for the reopenning of the Athenry <-> Claremorris railway will be included in the National Development Plan. www.independent.ie/regionals/ma...

Good news out of the pre-budget discussions. Fares will not be rising this year. The Government must continue to invest in capital and current expenditure for Public Transport particularly in Galway to make up for the historical lack of ambition which has left our city totally choked with traffic.

A reminder that this rally is happening this coming Thursday 2nd Oct. Please support it if you can by joining us on the day or contact your local TDs & ask them to attend the Love 30 presentation in the AV room. This effects rural Ireland as much as it does our larger towns and cities. Bígí linn!

We're back! After some time away we are relaunching our organisation to help bring about a Galway that is safer, healthier and easier to get around. If you'd like to be involved please send us an email or drop us a DM!

Another fine example of how a small group of well-funded residents can completely hold up Essential Infrastructure through the Judicial Review system to get their way Very convenient how it also means their illegal car parking spots remain available irishcycle.com/2025/09/23/d...

Yet another report describing the obvious. Galway needs proactive and urgent investment in public transport and active travel. It is the only reliable way to tackle congestion and its massive associated costs. #speirgorm

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A healthy society does not just happen; it requires us to rethink how we use our public space. In Galway, we have so much public space which is theoretically shared but which in reality is given over to motor vehicles. mens sana in corpore sano sanus hominibus sano societas (Google grazias)