Plaid Cymru councillors Colin Mann and Gary Enright are pressing for a land purchase to be speeded up so a railway footbridge, damaged more than five years ago, can be replaced.
Council officials in Caerphilly have been asked by Transport for Wales to compulsory purchase land for them so work can be carried out on replacing the Tynygraig footbridge in Llanbradach.
Councillor Colin Mann said: “I’ve been told by officers that the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) process is likely to take between six and nine months to complete. I’m pressing for that process to be speeded up because Llanbradach has been without this footbridge for such a long time. No one has really explained why the process takes so long.”
The council said it was continuing to push progress on the CPO and the relevant documents were due from the authority’s solicitors very shortly.
Fellow Llanbradach councillor Gary Enright added: “This saga has gone on too long. Residents naturally want to see this link restored and it is frustrating that the process takes so long.”