New speed survey 'waste of resources'

Following controversy over a traffic speed survey carried out last October, Kildare County Council has just undertaken another one on the Sunnyhill Road, writes Brian Byrne. This time on the double!

The survey this time is being done in two places, one each side of the entrance to Cnoc na Greine estate. The October one was taken 30 yards towards the motorway from the entrance, and became controversial because the report located it in a 60km/h zone while local residents said it was actually in a 50km/h zone, skewing the results to show substantially less of a problem than actually exists.

Last week, Cllr Ivan Keatley called for the survey to be redone, but local resident Orla O’Neill says all that’s needed is to change the correct posted speed limit in the original data, and get down to enforcing what seems to be a high level of excess speed.

“It is so disheartening, such a waste of resources,” she said last evening. “No wonder we are where we are. We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”



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