Donegal County Council is progressing with plans to add traffic lights at the busy Creamery Roundabout at Ballyraine in Letterkenny.
€575,000 was announced by TII in February to commence the next part of the N56 Letterkenny Urban Active Travel project between Ballyraine and the Creamery Roundabout.
The advanced plans include safer and more sufficient travel, with signalised junctions replacing the Ballyraine Halls roundabout and the Creamery Roundabout, where motorists travelling from the Ramelton Road (R245) and the Business Park often experience congestion.
The traffic lights will be linked with the Polestar roundabout to allow co-ordinated traffic movements at peak times.
Cllr Ciaran Brogan says it’s important that the council gets the message out to the public that every effort is being made on traffic relief in Letterkenny and that record levels of funding have been allocated to projects including the Ten-T (over €2million), the Northern Relief and the Southern Relief routes.
“It’s important for the public to know our plans because there is a lot of frustration around traffic in Letterkenny,” he told Tuesday’s meeting of the Letterkenny-Milford MD.
Cllr Brogan also asked the council for a timeframe on the Creamery Roundabout works, and to explore any short-term measures that could be taken at this pressure point from the Ramelton Road in the meantime.
Donegal National Roads Office is currently progressing this next stage of the active travel project through planning and design, with a traffic consultant being procured to conduct a feasibility assessment for the remaining sections of the project.
This project follows the completion of the first stage of the N56 Letterkenny Urban project, the signalisation of the Polestar Roundabout at the Four Lane, which was completed last year.
