Independent Cllr and former Lord Mayor Kieran McCarthy has welcomed the move to the next phase of the Bus Connects Sustainable Transport Corridors scheme along Douglas Road and Donnybrook and Grange, but encourages continued close communication with the general public. The National Transport Authority have commenced issuing letters to landowners whose property may be potentially impacted by the proposals for the Bus Connects Cork Sustainable Transport Corridors (STC). Following three round of public consultation, the 11 STCs that have been the subject of non-statutory public consultation have now been combined into three standalone proposed Schemes. 

Cllr McCarthy noted: “For the Douglas area the standalone proposed scheme is called the “Cork City South East Sustainable Transport Corridors Scheme”, which combines Airport Road to City scheme, Maryborough Hill to City scheme, Mahon to City scheme, and Kinsale Road to Douglas scheme”.

“The moving on of the Bus Connects Corridors is welcome as has been the ongoing conversations between individuals and the NTA officials. It has been over a year, November-December 2023, since the third round of public consultation on the Bus Connects corridors. All of us stakeholders involved are a little bit rusty on what conversations were had during the third round. A year is a long time in a community. I have written to the NTA to clarify and to publish what changes have been made arising out of the third round, so all involved are on the same page. So we all know the next steps of the process and that close communication continues”, concluded Cllr McCarthy.