Changes to traffic plan for fishery expansion

Significant changes in traffic management are being considered in the country’s biggest whitefish port to ensure expansion of the industry in the coming years is not hampered by gridlock.

Cork County Council has appointed consultants to undertake a major traffic survey in Castletownbere.

Members of the West Cork Municipal District were yesterday told that AECOM transportation consultants had already commenced work on the project and were assessing traffic volumes at 13 junctions in the town during peak periods. Details of journeys taken by local people on a daily basis are also being analysed.