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They can well afford it. That the government hasn't moved on this is more to do with incompetence than malice.

Yes, he was poor as a Minister. Still an unbelievably cowardly thing to jump ship when the going gets tough.

The increased transport emissions caused by building the Galway Ring Road will mean that greater emissions cuts will be required in other sectors, but particularly in agriculture. Proponents of the road should be asked how those emissions cuts in agriculture will be achieved.

They're reducing the carbon impact of pumping the gas basically. Obviously the gas itself is a much bigger issue, but they're ignoring that.

100% Somebody needs to get the ball rolling on an exodus. I proposed it a few times when I was in the Greens but they dragged their heels with many arguing that the party needed to stay on it because the journalists were there. An unjustifiable reason, in my view. At least they're off it now.

About 1.5km. But looking at it again the railway curves away from the airport so there would only be a marginal benefit in moving the station further up the track, and probably wouldn't be worth it.

The political and societal will are the hard part!

On the Late Debate on RTÉ radio one just now Senator Dee Ryan said the Foynes Road project is higher priority than connecting Shannon Airport to the rail network.

I'd be interested in hearing a credible approach to reducing emissions without reducing fossil fuels. Maybe she means that she's going to focus on agricultural methane and methane from drained peat bogs.

It was recently updated.

Those are just the consultation drawings but there's a note that the junction should be designed in accordance with the Cycle Design Manual. So long as that's done I don't see what the issue is.

Thank you! 🙏

I found the drawings. I'm pretty sure this is the type of junction that the cyclist that was interviewed is not happy with. This design is not appealing to sport cyclists but it is fundamentally safer. It really is disingenuous of the cyclist to characterise this as giving priority to cars.

I haven't seen the design. Can you point me to it?

That is a possibility. I'd have to see the design myself though. The prioritising cars at junctions point is often made by that subset of cyclists I referred to earlier. It is usually misleading and a reason to rubbish a scheme, when in fact it's following Dutch cycle design principles.

There's a subset of cyclists who tend not to want bike lanes. They tend to be faster, sport cyclists, rather than children, elderly, etc and are happy to mix it with vehicles or cycle in a hard shoulder. Bike lanes are for making cycling attractive to people who aren't as confident / skilled as them

This was safer? I doubt that very much.

Thanks Conor

Thanks Bill.

Thanks Billy!