OVER six years after residents of a quiet residential area in Killarney first expressed fears that somebody would be killed as a result of a massive increase in traffic outside their doors, action is finally about to be taken.
KillarneyToday.com can reveal that a major traffic calming plan is to be implemented at O’Sullivan’s Place which is being constantly abused as a short cut by drivers trying to avoid traffic congestion on the main road from St Anne’s Road to Lewis Road.
Frustrated residents have been on tenterhooks because of the unacceptable increase in the volume of traffic – including heavy goods vehicles – passing their doors along a verynarrow stretch of roadway that divides two rows of housing.
As far back as 2014, KillarneyToday.com reported that householders in the area even went to the extreme of barricading the roadway on busy weekends as they feared the traffic would cause an accident or that children out playing would be hurt.
“There is traffic cutting through at all times of the day and night and very often at great speed,” one irate resident said at the time.
“It’s a very narrow roadway with our own cars parked on one side and if anybody is walking on the footpaths or cycling on the road they are in immediate danger as vehicles just cut in before them”.
Kerry County Council will this week unveil plans to implement traffic calming measures at the junction leading from St Anne’s Road into O’Sullivan’s Place. The proposals include:
- Banning vehicles entering O’Sullivan’s Place from St Anne’s Road
- Reducing the width of the road to 3.5 metres
- Increasing the width of the footpaths on both sides
- The provision of information signage and new road markings
Council officials have invited members of the public to make observations or representations before March 27 and the plans will remain on display in the town hall in Killarney until that date.
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