They're not the only clowns.
10.03.2026 15:51
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They're not the only clowns.
That's what happened in parts of Galway, such as Knocknacarra.
Some housing estates were built with no footpaths and no pedestrian connectivity.
Others might have been built for cars, but at least had alleyways that made things a bit more permeable.
Many were closed off later, but some remain.
FR.
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That's because you don't do the 800-metre school run every day by car, like a real Galwegian would.
Unfortunately the 🇮🇪 ROI's myriad governance problems can't be summarised in a single post, or even a long thread.
You'd have to go to Fintan O'Toole for that!
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
#SeparatedAtBirth
Poor governance structures that have not been properly reformed since the foundation of the State. Mountains of "strategies" produced but w/ no mechanisms to ensure delivery. Officials with some power but no accountability.
A job as small as replacing a single bus shelter becomes a gargantuan task.
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#ReboundEffect.
The word "encourage" appears a couple of dozen times in the Permeability guidelines.
A sure sign that the NTA wants to say all the right things while actually doing nothing.
"A car driving at full speed"
"The car was not going to stop"
"Cyclists breaking the lights"
#AbsentDriver
"An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport." ~Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá.
"The Road Safety Authority does not even calculate years of potential life lost, and the Dept of Transport does not report road deaths as a public health metric. This analysis had to be assembled by me, a private citizen."
www.stoproaddeaths.ie
"There was no single place where you could see the full picture of this catastrophe, county by county, year by year, across the island. So I built a visualisation myself.
What I found was horrifying, as the data showed a pattern so clearly structural that it pointed to total institutional failure."
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☝️ @niallgalway.bsky.social @alancurran.bsky.social @galwaycommuters.bsky.social
☝️ @kleyden.bsky.social @mlhynes.bsky.social @tinydbass.bsky.social @brendanmulligan56.bsky.social
"4 minute drive away". 👇
Should we just give up now, @frankmcdonald60.bsky.social?
Or should we wait until, say, 2030 before succumbing entirely to despair?
#GalwayCityOfCars
#Carmageddon
Fast forward an entire decade.
Here's how @galwaycity.ie responds to "encouragement" and "guidelines" in relation to permeability.
Brand new housing estates off Letteragh Road, some still under construction. 👇
Walls everywhere.
'Locations where severance is “built-in” to the environment by high walls or cul-de-sacs, are common examples. The Authority encourages and financially supports the transformation of such neighbourhoods into permeable ones, where people can walk or cycle through areas safely and conveniently.'
"The preponderance of cul-de-sacs, and lack of links through estate boundaries, renders the walk or cycle to schools or shops significantly longer than the straight line distance and gives little choice to people other than the use of their car." ~NTA, 2015.
www.nationaltransport.ie/news/permeab...
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Spring has sprung
The daffs is riz
The price of oil alarming is
FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city
New social housing in Islington from around 2010 (yes, really).
A cool policy in the 1970s oil crisis in the Netherlands was the car free Sunday:
When you give kids the space to play, they'll take it
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