Northern Cross Route decision ‘absolute madness’
Mayor of Drogheda Kevin Callan has described today’s announcement that Drogheda has again been left out of essential funding from Central Government for the Northern Cross Route as “absolute madness”.
Callan said that the Northern Cross Route is the most essential piece of infrastructure that Drogheda needs to develop and grow and has been well flagged to government in terms of being a game changer for our town.
“The Minister never honoured his commitment to visit with myself as Mayor and all of the Drogheda Councillors and that was an obvious sign that we were in trouble on this one. This was despite his office confirming a date and then travelling past Drogheda to County Hall to instead meet officials.
“I will be convening a meeting of all of the Drogheda Councillors to discuss our next move in relation to continuing to push for this funding. In our joint submission to the County Development Plan we have already flagged this as the most important project for Drogheda.
“Sometimes in politics there are reasons for decisions not going your way but this decision makes absolutely no sense, in my opinion it smacks of parish pump and funding going to locations not based on merit but for reasons that are more political.
“There is no other project so badly needed in the Country and on the scale of the Northern Cross Route for Drogheda. To put it plainly we have been let down badly by government and we need to let this bad news settle and see where we go from here.
