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A ROAD fatality is unavoidable at a dangerous junction in Shannon, un- less steps are taken to address traffic eyuele) (othe
That was the stark warning uttered by local councillor Tony Mulcahy (FG), who spoke of his concern re- lating to the Aidan Park junction in SJerVeveeyee
He said last week that there had been four accidents at the junction
over the previous seven days.
“We are going to have to come up with a permanent solution. Someone is going to be killed there. There are peak times, morning, lunch and six o’clock in the evening. We have to come up with a freeflow system. It has to be resolved sooner rather than later,’ he said.
Senior Executive Engineer Donal Hogan responded by suggesting a short-term solution.
“In the short term, we can see what
improvements we can make with traf- fic lights. There are no opportunities to put in extra phases on the traffic lights that are there, but we can get a larger traffic controller, which would allow improvements,” he said.
“It is the right turn movements that is causing the problem,” he added.
Cllr Mulcahy replied, “The Station Road in Ennis is one of the busiest roads in the county, if not the busi- est. There are no lights there, but the traffic flows through. There is talk of
roundabouts. Basically it is a lump of tarmac in the middle of the road.”
Cllr Gerry Flynn (Ind) said the question of improving existing traf- fic lights has been mentioned before.
“T’ve heard that before, about the frequency of lights, but that won’t change the amount of traffic com- ing through. Maybe you could get the road section to draw up some proposal for the Aidan Park area and then let us try and come up with the funding.”