SNP candidate, Angus Brendan MacNeil, is urging the Comhairle to seek to allocate money directly to improvement works for the South Ford causeway.
Mr Macneil says councillors must listen to the concerns of locals who want sea channels
cut into the rock-
Five members of one family drowned as sea rose and flooded nearby villages in Iochdar during a severe storm in 2005.
The causeway acted as a dam with the sea piled about seven foot higher on the west side of the road.
Islanders say the incoming tide had nowhere to escape as the present open span unable to cope with the rush water.
A Comhairle hydrodynamic survey suggests 25% of the causeway should be open rather than the current 1.5%.
But the transport committee insists this approach is not cost-
Angus MacNeil said: “The situation with the South Ford Causeway is causing quite a bit of unease in Uist and Benbecula, especially as drawings have come to light from January 1981, showing two openings in the South Ford Causeway but the constructed causeway only has one opening.
He added: “I know that the families and the community feel that money allocated to nearby Gulan Island on the west side of the South Ford is not a good use of money.
“Instead this should be allocated to provide the opening in the causeway, along with any monies that may come from the devolution of the Crown Estate to the islands.”
MacNeil urges Comhairle to heed Uist community over South Ford causeway
21 April 2015