In a matter of weeks the Galway City Council will tell the council a whole new idea to manage traffic on the Headford Road. In the meantime the traffic problem on the Dublin Road will be allowed to continue in its present state. If the city council is genuine in making an effort to sort out the city's traffic mess, then the city council should start on the Dublin Road.

The city council should buy two CCTV cameras, with the permission of the ESB, and fit one camera on the ESB pole number 70 on the Dublin Road, pointing at all times on the yellow box on the GMIT side of the traffic lights at Duggan's corner.

The second camera should be fitted on the ESB pole directly across from pole 70, this camera to be pointing at all times toward the milk company.

When both camera are up and running, observations can be made day or night as follows.

1. Frequency and occupancy and speed of the busses using the bus lane.
2. Taxis with or without passengers and speed as the vehicles using the bus lane.
3. Vehicles using the bus lane can be seen arriving at the yellow box and driving full vehicle up on the yellow box. This operation is completed with total disregard for other road users and is against the rules of the road. Please read page 104 of the rules of the road booklet given to all houses in Galway during recent months. The reason for this driving on the yellow box is to be first away when the lights turn green.
4. Cyclists will be observed using the bus lane without a helmet, yellow jacket or lights on the bike.
5. Motorbikes, some with wide handlebars, will be seen to jump the queue using the bus lane and others the outbound lane such that vehicles using the outbound lane have had to pull over to the left to avoid contact with these motorbikes.
6. The cameras will show, every working day for the past number of years since the bus lane was built, a line of vehicles waiting their turn stretching from the yellow box back to the GMIT to get to the city.

These vehicles whilst stuck in the line of traffic are spewing out diesel and petrol fumes, all adding to global warming.

These people who run the city, the county and the country are only paying lip service to global warming, not making an effort to rectify the traffic problems on the Dublin Road in Galway.

Thanking you,

Kenneth G Kelly
Master Mariner,
63 Dun Na Mara Drive,
Renmore,
Galway

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