An already heavily congested traffic route from the Ballyraine Roundabout to the Polestar junction in Letterkenny will be made a lot worse if a proposed cycleway is allowed to be constructed. That was the warning from Cllr Ciaran Brogan during Tuesday’s Municipal District meeting where he said that plans now approved for the cycleway in front of the Mount Errigal Hotel were not there when it went through the statutory period of public consultation. When the new design with cycle lanes came to light last summer, the proposal was met with a sense of bewilderment by the public and among the business community. Cllr. Brogan said it was something that should not have happened and he raised that matter directly with the Council along with his own concerns over the impact that it would have on traffic flow in that area of the town. He highlighted the matter again on Tuesday and the Council has committed to revisiting his concerns.
