Reduced motorway toll or bridge over river put forward as solution to Cork town's traffic gridlock

One councillor said she knows four people in one family who live on the southside of Fermoy who pay tolls daily to commute to and from Mitchelstown for work

'There is heavy congestion being experienced in Fermoy town at peak times.' File picture: Dan Linehan

Reducing toll charges on a motorway or building a new bridge crossing the River Blackwater are the only real solutions to tackling increased traffic gridlock which is grinding a North Cork town to a standstill, according to councillors.

They say such measures are intended to tackle increasing traffic gridlock in Fermoy. Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the National Transport Authority have been asked by Cork County Council to provide money for a major traffic survey aimed at finding measures to tackle the town’s traffic issues.