The Galway Cycling Campaign has called for bikes to be carried on bus services as one of a range of suggestions made on the city’s Bus study. The study is being carried out by Booz Allen Hamilton consultants to identify a future path for the Galway’s public transport services and the deadline for submissions closed on Tuesday.

The cyclists highlight the common practice elsewhere of facilitating the carriage of cycles on buses. They claim this has the potential to benefit both cyclists and the public transport service by opening up access to locations that are both too far to cycle but not within walking distance of bus routes. The cyclists provide an overview of a range of cities and bus services across the globe where bicycle carriage is permitted on buses both internally and via externally mounted racks. The examples include:

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Cyclists welcome Minister’s moves on privatisation of
road safety cameras.

The Galway Cycling Campaign has issued a warm welcome
for Minister Martin Cullen’s new road safety bill,
which allows for the privatisation of road safety
cameras. They are now calling for the new speed
cameras to be rolled out as quickly as possible with a
particular emphasis on urban areas. The privatisation
of speed limit enforcement services was a key
recommendation of Galway Cycling Campaign’s submission
on the national speed limit review in 2003. At that
time, the GCC noted that a top safety measure in an EU