The announcement of the chosen route for a new road between Farranfore to Killarney has been deferred again.

Elected members of Killarney Municipal District this week expressed their disappointment at the lack of progress on the project.

As it stands Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) cannot give a definitive timeframe on when the preferred route corridor will be published.

It was supposed to be made in late November but that was postponed until the end of January. Now it seems that date will not be met either.

Many issues surround the project but as it faces additional delays it causes huge problems for residents along the four provisional routes. They don’t know if their lands will be subject to a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) or not.

“They [TII] have continuously moved the goalpost for the date to announce the selected route for this project, thereby leaving people in limbo with sterilised lands along all chosen corridors. We demand that there be no further delay in announcing the selected route,” said Cllr Marie Moloney.

Paul Curry of the National Road Design office in Castleisland did not reveal the reasons behind the current delay. The chosen route is currently being peer reviewed by senior TII engineers. This should have been completed in November but they have identified issues with the route and are delaying its publication.

“We are acutely aware of the impact this is having,” he told a KMD meeting this week. “It faces more challenges than it did in November. We are doing our level best to overcome the impasse.”