Noel Grealish (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I know consultants have been appointed to look at the Parkmore Road infrastructure in particular but what they are proposing involves just tweaking the traffic lights on the Monivea Road. That will not solve the problem. I put a proposal to Galway City Council and Galway County Council that involves using Galway Airport for a park and ride facility to serve Parkmore where nearly 10,000 people work. I have met with all the top executives in Parkmore. These are multinational companies - people who are concerned about the traffic problems. They said they would even look at co-funding to put a park and ride facility in place. Over the past two decades in Galway, every egg was put in one basket, which was the Galway city outer road. There are major problems in the middle of the city relating to proper bus lanes from east to west. When Galway city was developed, it involved bad planning. All the houses are on the west of the city while all of the industry is on the east. Approximately 7,000 people are trying to cross the city every day to get to work. That is bad planning. We do not even have a proper bus service to get from east to west in Galway city. I ask the Taoiseach to put proper funding in place this year to find some sort of quick fix solution to provide a proper public transport service within Galway city that would service Parkmore, where people work, in particular.

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