"Ms O'Reilly said the road would lead to "sprawl" and that this is the "wrong way" to do town planning. This road will add kilometres on to peoples' journeys and they will stop using it. "We are going to shoulder our children and our children's children with a debt of €600m for a road that is over-engineered. The oral hearing for the project has entered its third week in the G Hotel. It's not one or the other, it is both".The planned project would see the the construction of an 18km route that would run from the east side of the city to a location near the village of Barna.However, over 40 houses are at risk of being demolished, and more than 300 objections to the proposal have been lodged with An Bord Pleanála.Galway city Green Party Councillor Pauline O'Reilly said the date used to put together the strategy is out of date.Speaking on the same programme she said a minority of people are sitting in traffic congestion because the majority of people do not have another form of transport. File photograph: Getty Speaking at the second day of An Bord Pleanála’s oral hearing into the N6 Galway City Ring Road on Wednesday the development’s lead ecologist, Aebhín Cawley, said that these effects cannot be fully addressed by mitigation measures.Ms Cawley also said the ring road will have a negative impact on active blanket bogs and limestone pavement in the area but these effects can be mitigated by the creation of new dry heath habitats and calcareous grassland habitats.The hearing was also told that there will be a decrease in the percentage of people walking, cycling and using public transport in the city for the foreseeable future, according to the project’s own According to projections completed by Transport Infrastructure Similar marginal decreases are projected for the percentage of people using public transport, down from 4.3 per cent to 4.1 per cent, and the number of people cycling, down from 3.1 per cent to 2.8 per cent.The project team behind the proposed ring road argued that these projections will be changed significantly if separate initiatives included in the Galway Transport Strategy and the National Planning Framework are implemented in full.Under these conditions, the percentage of people travelling by cars will be reduced significantly to 56 per cent by 2039. A ruling on the proposed ring road project in Galway has been put back until later in the year. "Ms O'Reilly questioned why proper public transport planning in Galway has not been done up until now and why it is being used as a reason to build the proposed road.Mr Ó Cuív acknowledged that public transport in Galway is not good enough but said road space must be freed up in order to make it better.He said he frequently uses public transport himself and would like to see more people walking and cycling in Galway city.RTÉ.ie is the website of Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's National Public Service Broadcaster. "You build that road and you're going to see sprawl. But to facilitate all of that, this detailed study - that was commissioned by the National Transport Authority and the local councils - says that you need a road to take traffic around the city. Galway ring road will have ‘significant residual effects’ on bats and peregrine falcons Impacts cannot be fully addressed by mitigation, ecologist tells planning hearing Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 20:07 Paddleboarding cousins recovering after sea rescue By Briain Kelly. Today’s session was the first chance to hear general submissions or rejections regarding the proposed road development. Andrew Archer, project director, said private car users are projected to account for 69 per cent of all journeys in the city in 2039, if the ring road is built. May 3, 2019. The proposed new route - called the N6 Galway City Ring Road - would run from the M6 on the east of the city to a location close to the village of Bearna in the western region.It will consist of 12km of dual carriageway and 6km of single carriageway.Galway City Council said the €600m project, which is expected to take three years, would lead to a significant saving in journey times for motorists, but a number of groups opposing the project have questioned its merits, with campaigners saying there should be more focus on public transport.Fianna Fáil TD for Galway West Éamon Ó Cuív said it does not have to be one or the other.Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, he said that in order to have good quality public transport through Galway city, private vehicles must be taken out. An oral hearing into plans for a Galway ring road has opened and is expected to run for several weeks.The route is being proposed as part of the overall transport strategy for Galway to address the chronic traffic problems in the city.Congestion, pollution and soaring stress levels is a daily reality for the thousands of motorists coming into and out of Galway city.A previous plan to construct a city bypass was blocked on environmental grounds.