Had a 30 min Zoom meeting with Aislinn from the National Disability Authority nda.ie to discuss the #Barriers2Galway project Turned into a 2 hour long chat about the many challenges and barriers facing those with disabilities and opportunities to address them

A reminder that this public consultation is open till the 21st of August. Lets share, tag, and get as many people to make a submission. The Dublin plan has had a flurry of last min objections. Lets get everything on the table at the start on this one gov.ie/en/consultatio…

Language matters in accessible design! Our latest blog explains why we think it's so important for organisations to align behind the catchphrase "everyone from 8 to 80 and beyond” when talking about #ActiveTravel infra & expectations, to ensure accessibility of public spaces: 1/2

Delighted to be able to donate 1,000 eur to Ability West which the #Barriers2Galway project won from the Digital Town Awards. Met some great folks from AW and agreed to collaborate in the future to make more places more accessible for all

This is why the Day Fine is more effective than a standard fine as the Day Fine is based on a portion of your income. For example, not many would park illegally if they were risking 10 days of income en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine

Priorities, #Galway style

While this is a huge step forward, its been set up in a way that your report must be assessed by a Garda to see if its an offense without the benefit of evidence. A bizarre approach and one that will, no doubt, mean a lot of reports are not progressed irishcycle.com/2024/08/07/gar…

There is little to like about this and a lot to loathe about it. The RSA should be more concerned with child safety walking and cycling to school instead of working to get them behind the wheel earlier in life A farce irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4145…

Sing it with me 🎵And another bites the dust🎶 The first of 3 in this area being removed in this area 2 x South Park 1 x Celia Griffin Park #Barriers2Galway #kissthegatesgoodbye

If you think thats expensive, wait til you see the price of the car park....

This is welcome however in regards to this "It also calls for the assignment of an accessibility rating to all polling stations that is easy for electors to check in advance of voting." There should only be 1 acceptable rating....fully accessible

My elderly father highlighting the bonkers location of bike parking he found at Galway County Council offices where one must carry the bike up/down stairs Installed pre-2014 per Google Streetview A bike ramp could be ordered and installed within weeks to fix this....will it?

One more road will fix it 🤪 connachttribune.ie/council-team-c…

Its shameful that this amount of noise has to be made to have a conversation about road safety outside a school......with the school itself rte.ie/news/regional/…

Great work being done on this map. Its shocking the volume of reports but its vital to collect this info. If you know of any collisions, please add the info at the link below