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Originally Posted by O'Sullivan Bere
Galway was never as bad as Dublin back then or now given the smaller size and population. Galway has certainly exploded in growth just like Dublin, though. I remember the N-17, N-18 and other Galway arteries being relatively free moving at one point--not no more at all. It was inside the town where things turned into a mess. If they hadn't pedestrianised inner Galway in the 1990s, that backup today would have most certainly backflowed what is now a busy, crowded, growing and suburbanising city. As for pedestrianising Dublin, I certainly like that for Temple Bar for starters, and that already partially exists.
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How's it going over there, O'sullivan... Galway has got alot worse in the last few years. We are deparately waiting for the new ring road for the city..
By the way don't expect to park on eyre sq, since they done it up(or down, the debate continues) parking is reduced. There was no parking space on Saturday night.
Galway has it's problems but they very much caused by possiblily the worsed local goverment in the first world. They are so bad that they were given 21m euro to treat or water. They never spent it and now the whole of the city and half the county has a virus in the water making it undrinkable. Say it might last 6 months.
The plan in Galway is to get rid of the cars. Pity they didn't think of any public transport. I mean we are working with complete idiots. The Goverment lost the rag with them over the water thing.
Still a great little city wouldn't want to live anywhere else and I have travelled alot.
Dublin is a mess. Worst maybe but Brussells, Paris, Mumbai(scary and very bad) are all bad too. Dublin just wasn't ready... I think closing down streets and puting Luas(trams) might be the answer. Also getting the train service up and running properly.. There should be a ship in service to heuston from the west and connelly for the north of the city and use some of the tunnels which already exist under the city.
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This week Léargas, in a programme called Baile Átha Cliath Faoi do Chosa, goes places where no camera has been before - into the dark and sometimes dangerous world of Dublin's underground. Presenter Fachtna Ó
Drisceoil and David Green of the City Drainage
Department, brave sewage and rapidly rising waters in a tour of Dublin's underground river, the Poddle. Archaeologist Annaba Kilfeather travels the same journey on the surface, revealing the Poddle's secret history as she goes. The programme discloses some of Dublin's best kept secrets. We enter the Liffey tunnel, close to the East Link Toll Bridge. We travel through the Phoenix Park rail tunnel, which isn't used for passenger rail even
though it connects Heuston and Connolly stations.
A newly discovered medieval slipway in a Merchant's Quay basement is still covered at high tide by the Liffey's waters, just as it was 700 years ago. The City's original poor house - which later became the Foundling Hospital - has been re-discovered and incorporated into the basement of a modern extension to St. James's hospital.
The programme also features the mummies in the crypt of St Michan's Church and - bringing us right up to date - the first television pictures from inside the Dublin Port Tunnel.
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Run a tunnel under the canals would be a start