Motorway link to town would cost €1m, hearing told

A MOTORWAY connection to Buttevant could cost as little as €1 million and would lead to fewer accidents on a series of lethal bends which have claimed 40% of all fatalities on the main road between Cork and Limerick.

That was the assertion of people living in the north Cork town when they put forward their case yesterday for a connection to the proposed €800m M20 motorway to link the cities.

Day four of a Bord Pleanála oral hearing heard representatives of Buttevant Community Council argue safety was one of a number of considerations which should warrant the town getting the link.