Mayo county council are once again calling on the public to make submissions on the new county plan, the current county plan 2014-2020 is going to be reviewed and in two years, a new plan will be launched for 2020-2026. In 2013 our campaign managed to get 287 submissions on the county plan asking for a greenway on the closed railway, we were ignored. There is a lot of history in this matter; but Mayo county council are still ignoring our campaign, they need to know we have not gone away. At some stage they will have to listen. This is the start of our campaign to get submissions (in their thousands) if possible sent to Mayo coco. The link to the planning process is included, but we need to start this now, please send a short email to countydevplan@mayococo.ie Please make these points: The closed railway from Claremorris to Charlestown (and on to collooney is not going to be re-opened. This route should be utilised as a greenway. On the 12km section near Kiltimagh on which the council is promoting a velo-rail and has already spent €300,000 granted from Minister Michael Ring we are asking for a parallel greenway to be put in place so that Kiltimagh can benefit from the tourism this will generate and connect Kiltimagh to the Sligo greenway from Collooney to charlestown which is currently supported by Sligo county council and the proposed Athenry- Tuam -Milltown greenway on the closed railway in Galway. The parallel greenway next to the Kiltimagh velorail will ensure free and open access to this route rather than just pay per usage which Mayo county council and Kiltimagh IRD are proposing. Please adopt these ideas in the county plan. Thank you etc etc Thanks everyone, we must keep the pressure up!! Brendan.