Lack of roads funding ‘significant challenge’ for council

The lack of funding to build strategic roads in Cork county will provide a “significant challenge” for the local authority.

Cork County Council’s chief executive Tim Lucey referred specifically to the urgency for a bypass in satellite town Carrigaline and, also, a link to the proposed Science and Innovation Park at Curraheen on the western approach to Cork city.

He made his comment after county councillors received a letter from acting Minister for Transport Paschal Donohoe who said, under the current financial climate, money was being targeted on repairing and strengthening existing roads rather than building new ones.