Councillor calls for better repairs to Thompson's Cross

Pothole patching in 2023, it has long since disintegrated. 

An appeal to Kildare County Council to carry out a 'cut out and resurfacing' repair of the road surface at Thompson's Cross has been made by Cllr Tracey O'Dwyer, writes Brian Byrne. The surface is currently in a bad and potentially dangerous condition.

The councillor has the matter down as a motion at the next meeting of the Kildare-Newbridge MD, scheduled to take place next Wednesday.

A cut out and repair would be a more substantial effort, involving removing the surface layer of the road across the whole junction and replacing it with a proper new surface, rather than simply filling the potholes.

A repair job on potholes carried out in February 2023 at the junction has long since disintegrated, and vehicles going through it are subject to potential suspension damage as well as increased danger of a serious incident. The real possibility of being bounced out of control during a crucial acceleration and turn is ever-present.

Meanwhile, though the Diary was told in April that consultants appointed to make recommendations on improving safety at Thompson's Cross would have their report 'in a few weeks', there's been no further word on that item's status.

The junction has been dangerous since the realignment of local roads with the completion of the M9 in the Kilcullen area. With a long history of crashes there since then, attempts to make the intersection safer have failed and are widely considered to have been 'tinkering' with the problem. 

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