Dear Editor,
I read with great interest a letter in the letters to the editor section in last week's Galway Independent (Wednesday 28 November) titled 'Leave Lough Atalia Alone'.

It was the last two sentences of the letter that caught my eye. 'If more road space is needed, why not invest in a road parallel to the railway track right out to Oranmore to relieve traffic congestion. Then we would be getting somewhere.'

This is a marvellous suggestion and, as far as I know, this corridor is part of the city development plan and lands have been reserved along this route. A city centre relief road girding the railway track and joining the road network at either the Galway Clinic or even at Oranmore makes perfect sense. I know there would probably be issues with car headlights and oncoming trains and proximity to residents in Renmore but acceptable solutions can be engineered for this. The route must only be about five kilometres long and would sort the traffic woes for the city centre and that of the Ceannt Station, Docklands and new harbour proposals, thus saving Lough Atalia Road of the continual traffic pounding it shoulders daily.

Fare play to you Nuala, it is the voice on the ground that has the solution. It is a joined up approach that future proofs the city' transport quagmire.

Name and address with editor

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