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said that he has used the route from the Ballina side every day for years and has “never experienced anything like the
delays since those lights went in. You have to wait for traffic to turn every which way be- fore you can go straight ahead across the bridge. That means waiting for up to four changes of the lights and they’re all long waits. You can be there for ten minutes or more, I’ve 1p beetsre mn | a
Local Councillor, Tony O’Brien has heard many com- plaints concerning the delays which the lights — turned on just two weeks ago — are caus- ing.
Having raised questions with the council’s roads depart- ment, he was told that they are
tackling teething problems.
The councillor and chair- man of the community coun- cil was told that expert traf- fic management consultants, Traffic Management Solutions Ltd, have been brought in the monitor how the lights are working and pin down snags.
The company is currently looking at how the operation is going and will report back to the county council’s traffic management officials.
“We’ll see what they have to say, but I want whatever needs doing to be done to solve these delays, even if that means switching the lights off,” said Clir O’Brien.