Know the
road ahead.
A fresh perspective on how Galway moves. Follow the busiest corridors, spot developing slowdowns, and understand the journey behind the signal.
Learning the city.
Historical baselines are taking shape. We'll distinguish a real slowdown from ordinary bus-stop delays only when the evidence is strong enough.
Road watch / Galway
Real-time road speeds
TomTom road-section speeds compared with free-flow conditions, independent of the bus GPS measurements below. Each sample represents one matched location, not the entire named road.
Honest signals, not guesswork.
We're measuring how long monitored buses take between two checkpoints. Exact lengths of car queues are not measured. Once we have several comparable days of observations, we'll show relative slowdowns and confidence.
The city map
Monitored corridors
Numbered lines join provisional start/end GPS checkpoints. They are not measured queues or exact road traces. Select a road to see its card.
Open full Galway street map ↗How the signal works
From bus movement to useful context.
Galway Eye currently collects National Transport Authority vehicle-position data on a dedicated VPS. Every five minutes, it examines bus journeys through five direction-specific checkpoints.
- Journey time: the median time observed for recent buses crossing a selected section.
- Baseline: historical trips for the same route, Galway local hour and weekday/weekend category.
- Congestion label: appears only after at least two independent recent buses have valid historical comparisons.
- Confidence: stays limited until the estimates can be tested against independent road measurements.
- Queue length / car count: unavailable. Bus GPS alone cannot reliably determine either.
The illustrations on road cards communicate the concept; they do not depict measured cars or queue lengths. Treat this as an exploratory pilot, not a safety-critical routing service.