Councillors reject plan for bus and bike lanes

Residents cheered last night as a controversial public transport plan that would have seen parts of some of their front gardens along one of Cork’s busiest roads sacrificed for bus and bike lanes was shot down.

City councillors voted against proceeding with the first phase of the €4m Wilton Corridor project, shelving plans to widen a section of the Wilton Road to six lanes by taking up to seven metres off some front gardens along the western side of the road.