Road safety issues in Grange raised at local council meeting

By Philip Rooney, The Sligo Champion

A motion before the recent Sligo-Drumcliffe Municpal District meeting heard calls from Cllr Donal Gilroy for a safety audit to be carried out in relation to “issues on Chapel Road, Grange from the N15 to Granary Drive junction.”

Cllr Gilroy’s motion called for “A timeline for carrying out necessary improvements and include when these improvements might be delivered.”

Addressing the meeting, Cllr Gilroy said, “Double yellow lines are done as far as the school. They need to be done further and covered by a bye-law to make them enforceable. It is lethal, it is a real bottleneck."

Cllr Gilroy noted, “Once you are past Granary Drive junction you are safe. I am asking that you do an audit of where are the pinch points, where are the problems.”

Highlighting the seriousness of the situation Cllr Gilroy remarked, “parents are afraid to let their children up there.”

Addressing the issues raised, Cllr Marie Casserly said, “The school is very grateful for the flexi-bollards and double yellow lines and refreshed road markings. The roads are narrow, it is very hard to make them wider. Credit where it is due.”

Cllr Casserly continued, “We need to encourage parents to use the public car park, it’s a big Council car park. It’s so dangerous holding up traffic to drop off children on the busy N15.”

Jim Molloy, Director of Climate and Infrastructure and Sligo-Drumcliffe Municipal District responded to Cllr Gilroy’s request for a bye-law to be introduced to enforce the double yellow lines saying, “Double yellow lines don’t need a bye-law.”

In relation to the request for a survey to be carried out Mr Molloy commented, “It is a significant body of work, doing that kind of survey.”

Article Funded by the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme.