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Toll waivers at off-peak times for shared cars and 20% cheaper bus fares are just some of the proposals published today by Mobility Partnership Ireland, which plans to make shared transport a general election issue.

Local Cllr Evelyn Parsons has called on the Minister for Transport to immediately intervene in the reinstatement of a multi-stop bus services along the Galway-Ballinasloe-Dublin route. This follows the decision by the National Transport Authority not to introduce a new route to following Aircoach’s decision to cease operating on the route.

The Sheraton Athlone was complete with excitement and celebration as Athlone GAA hosted their annual dinner dance on Saturday night.

Irish Citylink, one of Ireland’s largest passenger transport companies, based out of Galway, are delighted to announce they have recently won two awards at the prestigious 2023 World Passenger Festival held in Vienna.

The Galway and Salthill Tramway Company was inaugurated in 1877. The Town Commissioners gave the project every encouragement and extended the time limit in which the tracks had to be laid. The single tramline was two and a quarter miles long with eight passing loops, roughly 250 yards apart. The rails were heavy steel, the gauge was three feet wide and the trams were horse-drawn, there was no electricity in Galway for another 12 years or so. The cost of construction was £13,000. The depot was in Forster Street and the western terminus was opposite the Eglinton Hotel.

Irish Citylink, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore-headquartered ComfortDelGro group, has taken over GoBus for a fee believed to be in the region of €12 million. Galway-based GoBus was established by Jim Burke and his family in 2009.

Early on Monday afternoon Xavi Vazquez walked through Shop Street up to Eyre Square to collect an old newspaper article that was to be brought back by his father to Spain the following day.