There’s only one day left to make submissions on the Ennis Transport Plan.

Over 50 residents living near the Old Mill Road in Ennis attended a protest yesterday over council plans to create a one-way traffic system with a cycle lane on a prominent thoroughfare in the town.

Under the Draft Ennis Local Transport Plan , its proposed to make the southbound lane of Mill Road stretching from Carmody Street to Harvey Quay's a one way street, to facilitate a footpath, which can't be built at present as a protected structure which cannot be knocked protrudes onto the roadway.

It's proposed in this case that Northbound traffic will be re-routed through a residential and commercial area of Cloughleigh.

Clare FM’s Darragh Dolan was at the protest yesterday and he first spoke to Cloughleigh resident Mary McNamara.

A traffic survey by local Garage Owner Pat Foudy has indicated that the new plans will bring up to 5,990 additional vehicles a day up Old Mill Road, and that just 0.2% of traffic analysed on the proposed one-way street at Mill Road was either a pedestrian or a cyclist.

The community are now raising concerns over potential congestion as well as road safety issues, particularly in relation to HGVs, while the owner of the protected building at the centre of the controversey claims he was not consulted by the local authority about any potential solution.

For more on this, Peter O'Connell was joined by Bridget Ginnity of the Ennis Green Party.