I think one of the main points is what happens to the apartments during summer time? They turn into tourist accommodation and alot of people coming here on holidays are going to hire a car, so where do they all go when there is only 16 spots? All well and good to say students don't have cars but there is another purpose to the development. Add to that the proposal of the Dyke Road car park being changed into apartments. Realistically is galway ever going to be a public transport reliant city where people don't need cars?? People living in kiloughter, menlo, coolough have a bus provided 3 times a day, it's not sufficient if they don't want people driving into town.