CALL FOR CEANNT STATION TO BE RETAINED AS TRANSPORT HUB

Date Published: 12-Feb-2008

A city councillor says Galway’s Ceannt station is of as much value to the county as Shannon Airport is to Clare.

Councillor Billy Cameron made his comments at last night’s city council meeting as he attempted to pass a motion for the station to be retained as a transport hub.

Councillor Cameron doesn’t want the proposed redevelopment of Ceannt station to be a ‘strategic infrastructure development’.

He says this will mean it will be fastracked to ‘An Bord Pleanala’ and not dealt with by Galway city council.

The motion was not passed as city manager Joe McGrath said parts of it amounted to a variation of the city development plan.

However city officials have agreed to meet with Councillor Cameron to re-word the motion in the hope of getting it passed.