Last year (2011) saw the best ever take up of the Christmas Park and Ride service. It's only €2 per car irrespective of the number of people in the said car. By comparison, the hugely sucessful 111 in Cork is €5.
There is talk about making it a year round thing, the same as the 111 in Cork.
http://www.galwaynews.ie/23333-galway-city-park-ride-service-has-its-best-year-yet
Ceannt Station is not going to be re-developed for many years to come - instead they are going to refurbish the current station. It's about time people didn't get soaked while waiting to board a bus for starters. In Dublin you wait inside Busáras. In Cork you are outside the building but the shelters go way out on the rear side and on the 'front' side (the side facing the river) there is a canopy so either way you don't get wet while waiting for a bus. In all fairness I don't think anyone can expect it to be done in the current economic climate. But it is certainly something that should be done as soon as the economy improves. The old Galway garage is opposite Ceannt Station and faces Eyre Square. They could certainly do something there - there is plenty of space around Ceannt Station to expand it anyway. That said, they would have to do without the income from the car park (the old Galway garage is now a car park for IÉ customers) if they did up this side of the station so maybe that's not a runner
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Lastly, some news in relation to RTPI. This is not going to be introduced until the latter half of this year, but that could easily be next year, this is Galway after all, a place notorious for not doing things on time
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http://www.galwaynews.ie/23633-%E2%82%AC800m-ceannt-station-revamp-derailed-recession
There is talk about making it a year round thing, the same as the 111 in Cork.
http://www.galwaynews.ie/23333-galway-city-park-ride-service-has-its-best-year-yet
Ceannt Station is not going to be re-developed for many years to come - instead they are going to refurbish the current station. It's about time people didn't get soaked while waiting to board a bus for starters. In Dublin you wait inside Busáras. In Cork you are outside the building but the shelters go way out on the rear side and on the 'front' side (the side facing the river) there is a canopy so either way you don't get wet while waiting for a bus. In all fairness I don't think anyone can expect it to be done in the current economic climate. But it is certainly something that should be done as soon as the economy improves. The old Galway garage is opposite Ceannt Station and faces Eyre Square. They could certainly do something there - there is plenty of space around Ceannt Station to expand it anyway. That said, they would have to do without the income from the car park (the old Galway garage is now a car park for IÉ customers) if they did up this side of the station so maybe that's not a runner
Lastly, some news in relation to RTPI. This is not going to be introduced until the latter half of this year, but that could easily be next year, this is Galway after all, a place notorious for not doing things on time
http://www.galwaynews.ie/23633-%E2%82%AC800m-ceannt-station-revamp-derailed-recession


