Residents in Cong have launched a petition objecting to a proposal to build a relief road that’s designed to remove traffic from the village centre.
The petition, set up on the Uplift platform, has gathered a thousand physical signatures and a further 500 online supporters.
It calls on Mayo County Council to halt the current phase of the development, where eleven proposed routes are on the table, and to hold a meeting with residents to hear their concerns.
It accuses the local authority of pushing through its proposal “with little to no publicity, with much haste and most importantly, with next to no contact or discussion with the people of Cong”.
It states “As the people of Cong, we feel the routes fail to meet the outlined objectives and needs of Cong and moving to a single candidate route at this time is extremely premature in the absence of meaningful public consultation and detailed surveying. We do not support the proposed routes and feel that other alternative options need to be explored.”
Aisling Scott is a m,ember of the Cong Action Group and she’s been telling Midwest News Editor Teresa O’Malley more about the local concern….
