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Ballinrobe's Main Street, which has faced problematic traffic congestion in recent years
MAYO County Council is to recruit an extra staff member whose duties will include working on a bypass for Ballinrobe.
Paul Dolan, Mayo County Council’s Head of Roads, said the council were recruiting a staff member for their National Roads Office to begin preparing a strategic assessment report on the bypass.
Mr Dolan told members of the council’s Roads SPC that this work would begin within the next month.
Minister of Transport Eamon Ryan was said to have supported the idea of a bypass for Ballinrobe, which has been beset by traffic congestion in recent years, when he met with county councillors during the summer.
A bypass for Ballinrobe was first proposed as far back as 2009 when a preferred route along the east of the town was ratified by Mayo County Council and adopted in the Ballinrobe Local Area Plan.
A sum of €600,000 was allocated for traffic alleviation measures in Ballinrobe earlier this year.
Mr Dolan said that a contractor would be appointed to construct traffic lights at Staunton’s corner in the town ‘within a couple of weeks’.
Local representative Damien Ryan also raised the traffic issue at the recent meeting of Mayo’s Joint Policing Committee.
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