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Our gridlocked city cannot wait any longer for the BusConnects corridors

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The Irish Times – Letters to the Editor
Thu Oct 22 2026 - 06:00 • 1 MIN READ

Sir, – Eamon Ryan’s article “Quiet scaling back of BusConnects is a travesty” (Opinion, October 20th) states that Minister of State for Transport Seán Canney recently indicated that he wants to hold back on building the Galway BusConnects corridors until the ring road starts.

What an extraordinary sentiment from the Minister. Our city is in gridlock. The planned road is not necessary for BusConnects. To link the projects is to condemn an entire population to years more sitting in traffic.

Whatever about the road, we need BusConnects now. – Yours, etc,

GRÁINNE FALLER,

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