A number of groups are holding a rush-hour protest in Galway this evening over a proposed bypass.
The 'Get Galway Grooving' demonstration is against the construction of the N6 City Ring Road.
From 5:30pm today protesters will take to the streets dressed in bright colours while riding skateboards.
Seamus Diskin from Extinction Rebellion Galway suggested public transport needs to be the priority in Galway.
He told Newstalk Breakfast: "The bypass as proposed has two major drawbacks.
"The first drawback is the cost, and especially the carbon emission cost.
"The second problem that we have with it is the lack of benefit - and that is the failure of bypasses to reduce traffic congestion in so many cases.
"We have the case of the M50 in Dublin: originally built two lanes wide, and then widened to three and four lanes."
Galway West TD Éamon Ó Cuív, meanwhile, told Newstalk Breakfast that the road should be built for locals who face transport challenges in the area.
He said: "When you read the whole [Galway Transport] Strategy, you see the reason why the ring-road of Galway is needed.
"There are 60,000 people west of the Corrib, and they have no way across into the rest of the country - they're effectively on an island, except they have to come across the Corrib... it is the only way across.
"Unless you want to go where I live, 35 miles north of Galway City... that is literally the only other way out - or otherwise you go to Westport."
Deputy Ó Cuív noted that the Galway Transport Strategy also includes plans for cycling and public transport for the area, but stressed that the ring road is also a key aspect of the overall strategy.
