Time to plan for the Galway Arts Festival and the Galway Races, but where is the plan for the city’s clogged-up roads?

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“This is no consolation to those in traffic jams, but if Galway wasn’t successful, it would have those traffic issues. But of course, they are endemic of bad planning over the past 50 years that have seen the population treble and which has seen the making of a Galway that is very much not the Galway that people see in their mind’s eye – these two weeks of the arts festival and the races.

“I don’t know,” she says. “What I have seen, in my 17 years, is a huge lobby group behind cars. I was in a minority in thinking that a ring road and N6 project was never going to be a solution. And there was never a plan B. When it hit a cul-de-sac through Europe, there was no plan B. We have gotten it wrong.”

The public transport system falls well short of what is needed. Parents being unable to avail of the school transport system for their children because of limited seating is a big issue. “To me, that is a positive challenge – people wanting to use public transport,” says Connolly. “But unless it is solved, they have no choice but to take to the roads, further pressurising the traffic numbers during the peak hours around school opening and closing.

He is adamant that the haphazard trend of simply continuing to build further and further out east and west has to end. Traffic near the busy junction at the Galway Shopping Centre on the Headford Road. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy.

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