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Taoiseach Enda Kenny has welcomed funding from the Department of Tourism, Transport and Sport under the Jobs Initiative and Sustainable Travel Projects. A total of €97,150 will be allocated for the provision of 20km of cycle lanes along arterial routes serving the Ballina area. The funding allocation also includes for the provision of signage and information on these cycle lanes. This funding is part of the recent Jobs Initiative to provide for greater use of sustainable transport as well as creating employment.

Forty two schools from across Mayo will be awarded the coveted Green Flag at an awards ceremony in the McWilliam Park Hotel, Claremorris, on Monday next May 23.

Smart Travel Castlebar, (formerly Iompar Castlebar) has a new name and logo following a very successful competition with transition year students from secondary schools in the town. A large number of entries were received and Smart Travel Castlebar, a group promoting sustainable travel in Castlebar, is delighted with its new name and logo.

Noel Gibbons, road safety officer with Mayo County Council, has won the Road Safety Officer of the Year Award from the Road Safety Authority. At a presentation to mark the occasion by RSA chairman Gay Byrne at the RSA’s Leading Lights in Road Safety awards in Dublin Castle, Mr Gibbons was honoured for his work promoting road safety in Mayo through creative and informative road safety campaigns, and his ongoing efforts to support and complement the work of the Road Safety Authority and An Garda Síochána through national campaigns.

The prestigious Green Flag Award was presented to nine schools from across the county, at an awards ceremony held in Hotel Kilkenny, on May 20. Three schools were awarded Green Flags for the first time and a further six schools successfully renewed their Green Flags.

Loughrea has been shortlisted for a new sustainable travel initiative which will see €5 million awarded to one town for the development of sustainable transport infrastructure.

It will be back to donkeys and carts in Ballina and north Mayo given the decision by An Bord Pleanála last week to refuse permission for the N26 Ballina to Bohola road.

Chair of the roads and transportation SPC, Cllr Jarlath Munnelly, said that as much as he welcomes the national sustainable transport initiative, those on a national level “need to get into the real world” as “we are a million miles” from increasing the usage of public transport in the county, due to the sparse service which is currently in existence in the county.

All schools and businesses in Westport are collaborating to encourage everyone to travel to school and work in a sustainable manner. All commuters are requested to consider walking, cycling, car pooling, or taking the bus or train. This is a re-launch to encourage both schools and workplaces to get involved and it is intended to have weekly WWW days from now on. The first commences next Wednesday, February 10.

In the last six months, homes in County Carlow say that their awareness of environmental topics has risen to 65 per cent, and that eight per cent more of them are now turning off unused lights.