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Galwegians will be encouraged to leave their cars at home and get on their bikes for National Bike Week which runs from this Sunday until next.

A discussion forum entitled ‘Galway City Draft Development Plan – The Opportunity to Have Your Say’ was held last Wednesday at Galway City Museum, where key observations and insights into the importance of the process of the development plan were highlighted to attendees.

Ambitions to have a light rail system operating in Galway may have been dealt a fatal blow in a new report from the Galway City Council which regards it as far too costly and advocates a new bus system for the city instead.

Five of the top business lobby groups in Galway have come out in support of the city’s public transport feasibility study and Gluas, the proposed light rail system.

The Galway City Business Association will hold its annual general meeting in the city centre next week.

“It was like a light being switched off in a room” — so said the chairman of the Galway City Business Association, Ronnie O'Gorman when describing the speed with which the financial world collapsed, during his address to the group’s AGM on Tuesday night.

A major bid to make Galway the leading Smart Travel location in the country by the Galway City Council and Galway County Council could see car use reduced dramatically over the next five years and see a major rise in cycling, walking, and the use of public transport.

The Galway City Outer Bypass is dead but other transport solutions to traffic congestion in and around the city are not so it’s time to look to these other solutions and go back to the drawing board regarding the bypass.

Tributes poured in this week for the late city businessman George Herterich who died suddenly on Tuesday.

Despite the recession, those behind the GLUAS light rail system for Galway city believe the current economic climate is actually favourable to the project.