No money to fix congested town junction in Kildare
No money is available to pay for measures to improve a congested junction in Naas.
Labour Party councillor Anne Breen said that Kildare County Council should redesign the road layout at the junction of Sallins Road and Monread Avenue.
She said this should be done to improve traffic flow and pedestrian safety.
But according to KCC this would involve significant civil engineering works and would require a widening of the junction into lands owned by third parties.
KCC also pointed out that there is no “funding resource available to progress a design for such a scheme.”
Cllr Breen countered that it is impossible for parents to walk with their children there adding “we should try to get funding.”
Independent councillor Bill Clear said the junction cannot cope with the traffic and Naas Mayor Fintan Brett said consideration should be given to making an entrance to the Applegreen service station from Monread Avenue instead of having traffic drive on to Sallins Road and then drive on to the forecourt,
He added Applegreen might facilitate this.