Any suggestion that a ‘watered down job’ will be sufficient on the road from Oughterard to Clifden has been firmly rejected by the N59 Campaign Group.
The Group, which has now gathered thousands of support signatures, has issued a statement calling on the County Council and Transport Infrastructure Ireland to develop a proper standard national secondary road in Connemara.
The N59 Action Group stated there appeared to be a policy emerging that a limited job would be enough on the road from Oughterard to Clifden and north to Leenane.
‘Let it be clear,’ stated Seosamh Ó Cuaig from the Action Group, ‘that a scrape of tar and chips will no longer satisfy the people of Connemara.’
He says that half measures have been the order of the day in Connemara for too long – and that the N59 cannot be allowed to drift in that direction.
The statement says the group is concerned by remarks attributed to County Council managerial personnel that widening sections of the N59 may be off the agenda.
The Action Group says this cannot be accepted: they say there is a clear health and safety issue at stake, as well as the general development of the area.
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