Red-faced council now in talks to get pedestrian crossing on N24 at Carrick-on-Suir school
Tipperary County Council previously maintained Transport Infrastructure Ireland rejected the pedestrian crossing proposal for the N24 Pill Road outside Comeragh College but it turns out the TII never received an application from the local authority
Tipperary County Council is now in talks with Transport Infrastructure Ireland about developing a pedestrian crossing on the N24 outside a Carrick-on-Suir school.
This progress in providing this road safety measure outside Comeragh College Community School was confirmed at Carrick-on-Suir Municipal District’s monthly meeting which heard the Council’s report in June that an application for the crossing was rejected by the TII was wrong as the application was never received by the agency.
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Carrick-on-Suir Cllr Kieran Bourke told the meeting he was delighted to hear from District Engineer Michael Scully that the Council is now engaging with the TII about what needs to be done to progress the project and requested Mr Scully to keep him informed of the pedestrian crossing application’s progress.
He outlined that he was contacted on September 19 by the Editor of IrishCycling.com who wanted to do an article on the rejection of the pedestrian crossing application as he was taken aback to hear the TII was not going to develop the crossing outside Comeragh College.
Cllr Bourke said the Editor submitted a Freedom of Information request to the TII and discovered the agency had up to September 19 received no application from Tipperary County Council for the pedestrian crossing.
Cllr Bourke was previously informed at Carrick-on-Suir Municipal District’s June meeting that the TII had refused the Council’s request for the pedestrian crossing partly because the school was only open six months of the year.
Cllr Bourke said the IrishCycling.com Editor asked him to comment on the matter. “I assured him that as a public representative I raised this three times (at Council meetings) and got the Principal of Comeragh College to write into the Council about the safety need, and that nothing was done about it.”
The Fianna Fáil councillor suggested maybe a “mix up” was the cause of the Council’s failure to submit the application and welcomed the fact it is now doing something about securing this pedestrian crossing.
Mr Scully promised to keep Cllr Bourke up to date on the pedestrian crossing application and surmised there was “obviously some miscommunication” that led to it previously “falling through the gap”.