Since the early 2000s, a number of proposals have been made by politicians and interest groups in Galway to introduce a light rail system in the city.
No light rail proposal for the city has received any government support to date.
[9][1] Sólás Uirbeach Iarnrod na Gaillimhe (or SUIG, meaning 'comfort urban rail of Galway') was a third and separate proposal made in 2014.
[10] In April 2021, the Gluas Group held a webinar in which Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan announced a feasibility study on Light Rail for 2022.
[11] In October 2024, a feasibility study commissioned by the National Transport Authority found that there was a case for constructing a fifteen-kilometre light rail line from Roscam to Knocknacarra via Eyre Square and University Hospital Galway.