Call for new traffic calming plan for Dromod

Cllr Des Guckian asked Council engineers “that a suitable and comprehensive new traffic calming and traffic management plan be drawn up by them and that it will be put before the people of Dromod and councillors before any final decisions are made.”
A report by the roads office to the Carrick- on-Shannon Municipal District meeting on Monday said the district office has no current plans regarding construction of traffic management plans in Dromod and added that any such schemes will follow the “statutory requirements regarding public consultation.”
Cllr Guckian said that he is looking for the engineers to draw up “a suitable and comprehensive new traffic calming and traffic management plan” and residents have voiced concerns about “mad speeding of traffic through Dromod.”
He said that, “among those plans would have to be the improved table top junctions and raised pedestrian crossings” and continued that “residents have suggested to me that a new cantilever pedestrian bridge should be erected on to the Eslin River Bridge, on the northern (Duignan’s) side, to cater for people using the train station, etc.” and that the businesses of Dromod want more parking spaces.
He said that HGVs are “speeding down from Crowe’s Garage side on their way to cross the Shannon at Rooskey Bridge” and “should be encouraged to use the Dromod-Rooskey Bypass to get to Rooskey.”
He added that the problem of non-resident cars “being parked inside the roads of two residential estates, near the station” will also have to be tackled.