Update sought on safety measures for County Roscommon village
Safety concerns in Cloonfad village have been highlighted.
An update on moves to progress safety measures in Cloonfad village was sought at a meeting last week of Roscommon Municipal District
At last month’s meeting of the MD, councillors were told that Cloonfad is not currently a “location of interest” for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII).
At that January meeting, Fianna Fáil councillor Paschal Fitzmaurice questioned TII’s assessment of “what is safe or unsafe” as he believed there was plenty of accident data available.
It was agreed at that meeting that accident data for Cloonfad was needed to bring it to the attention of the TII.
At the March meeting of the MD, council engineer Tom McDermott outlined that correspondence had gone to the TII and the gardaí seeking accident data for Cloonfad to establish if the village’s junction could become “a location of interest”.
During the discussion, Cllr Fitzmaurice repeated his calls for ramped crossing points and traffic lights to be installed in the village, which is on a national route.
