A massive cash injection into the development of a Very Light Rail system in Coventry has reinvigorated the Gluas campaign for a sustainable solution to Galway’s traffic congestion.

The Department of Transport in England has channelled more than £115 million into ‘decarbonising’ Coventry’s transport system, with a large chunk earmarked for Very Light Rail (VLR).

The Gluas group, which is campaigning for Very Light Rail in Galway,  has welcomed the progress as a “major step forward”.

Coventry VLR, according to its City Council, “is intended to be cheaper and easier to install than a typical metro, through innovations in the design of the vehicle, its traction power and the track it runs on”.

The Council there expects a full business case by 2023, with the first phase of the track, a 2km line between Coventry railway station and Pool Meadow city centre bus station, due to open to passengers the following year.

Newsagent Brendan Holland, committee member of the Gluas group, said Coventry’s progress debunks the claim that Galway is too small and Very Light Rail too expensive.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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