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Twenty-one years later, the National Transport Authority (NTA) lodged a planning application last month for a P&R facility at Cappagh Road on the city’s western edge.

You’d think that progress would excite Galway commuters who waste hours stuck in traffic every year.

Instead, there is scepticism and opposition to the P&R proposal that are before city planners because many people don’t believe it will work.

The NTA said the project “aims to improve public transport access, reduce traffic congestion and enhance walking and cycling connectivity for the inhabitants of west Galway”.

Who could be against that? On the face of it, nobody. But the devil is in the detail and there are a number of red flags in this plan. The biggest difficulty with this P&R proposal is the absence of bus lanes on the Western Distributor Road.

It’s all very well providing sheltered bus stops at a new car park on Cappagh Road but without quality bus corridors that give buses priority over private transport, motorists will not be enticed out of their........

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