Calling John Gormley: Stop Sligo Borough Council Opening Sligo’s O’Connell Street to Traffic
Nov 11th, 2009 by Donagh
Aisling Ryan from Sligo got in touch and asked us to highlight a campaign that is under way there to prevent O’Connell Street being ‘depedestrianised’, that is opened to traffic.
Note to Aisling, although the name on the top is Dublin Opinion, the internet doesn’t have county boundaries. Good luck with the campaign.
On Monday November 2nd, the Sligo Borough Councillors made a decision to remove all mention of the Pedestrianisation of O’Connell Street from the 2010-2015 Sligo Environmental Development Plan. This was in the face of massive public protest. The Councillors made this decision as public representatives and claiming it was in the public interest.
Sligo’s citizens, the Sligo Chamber of Commerce and traders on O’Connell Street are currently seeking the support of Minister for the Environment John Gormley to overturn this decision, which was taken illegally, against the Sligo Development plan. Although the planned date to reopen the street is early December the Councillors plan on starting work immediately. While waiting on Minister Gormley to intervene the committee assembled to protest the depedestrianisation are seeking the support of people willing to sit out in the street to prevent works taking place.
I would really appreciate if you could post a call for supporters - we’re looking for people who may be able to come to Sligo at a couple of days notice for a few hours. The coordination contact email is sligoactivism@gmail.com.
hi
myself and 75 percent of the people of sligo ,find it difficult to believe ,the reason for opening O connell street they have failed to explain to the people that elected them why the are doing it .
the traffic has never flowed better since they closed it “the only conclusion i can come to is that the brown envelope system has not gone away
m conlon