Motorway to open Monday

Well, as most of you probably know, the new section of motorway linking Kilcullen with the Carlow by-pass is now to open on Monday.

It was going to be opened sometime anyhow, but the politicial wrangling of recent days really puts into question who is running things in this regard?

Anyone who listened to the discussion on KFM yesterday morning will just have shaken their heads at how many different hymn sheets were being sung from. Surely, in a €300m project, there is a little money for proper communications between the various parties (and not just the political ones)?

Cllr Martin Heydon has welcomed the minister's U-turn (although everybody knows that doing a U-turn on a motorway is illegal). "The current two lane N9 is extremely dangerous," he says, "particularly the stretch between Kilgowan and Crookstown in Kildare South where just a few weeks ago there were four accidents in a 24-hour period. The idea that this road which takes between 18,000 to 20,000 cars a day would remain as the main Dublin to Waterford road over the Christmas period, while the brand new motorway lay idle was absolutely ridiculous.”

Anyhow, drive safe, on whatever road you take.