Council again taken to task over dangerous junction
That's the view of local resident Sabina Reddy in a very strong letter to Kildare County Council, following the most recent and potentially very serious accident last Monday night, involving an articulated lorry.
In the latest of a series of communications to the Council, Sabina notes that the cost in overtime as gardai and local authority workers dealt with the latest accident was just one such instance, the total of which 'would be worth looking at'.
But she emphasises that the most important issue is the ongoing danger that somebody will be killed if something isn't done on a matter which she describes as 'totally ridiculous' in planning and road design terms.
She reminds the Council that she wrote first in February, predicting the kind of accident which happened on Monday night. So far, she says, 'we in the community have been spared any type of fatality, but we pray it may never happen'.
"I do not want any of my neighbours, friends or family to be victims of any pending accident at this junction," she says, "and now demand that some type of action be taken by the Council/NRA to have this area made safe."
Sabina says the new road structure was developed to facilitate the motorway structure of the country without taking local communities into account. "Also, it seems there is a division of cooperation between the NRA and the county council," she says, "as each is passing the buck between one other in taking responsibility for this road structure."
She adds that it is the Council's responsibility to be accountable in proper, wise spending of taxpayers' money as well as having a duty to make the area safe.
Brian Byrne.
(ED NOTE: The Diary requested a comment from Kildare County Council on the latest accident last Monday night; no response has yet been received.)
