Clarecastle Speeding Concerns

0:00This broadcast package on Claire FM is funded by the local democracy reporting scheme. Look at the reality of it is that the command orders I referred to, that's the link road between the village of Cagassal and the Kalaisa road. It still is the shortest way of getting from the Kalaisa road. And when I say the Kalaisa road I'm talking about is you come in from Labeshida, if you're going to work in Shannon Arlimrich or any business in that direction, that's probably still the shortest way of getting to your destination, rather than going into the tribe you're on the road and getting out of the motorway there. So the Kalaisa road, it's an arrow road, it's full of bins, it's heavily populated, it does ribbon development along most of it, young families, vulnerable road users, and the speed can be a bit too fast at times, people are just Russian, that's the nature life.

1:01Guards can't really enforce it because there isn't a straight enough stretch for them to get the required sight line to check the speed and cars. So today I was looking for VMS signage to be installed because it is a 50 km zone for the main part. After you come in after Kalaisa road, the first 300 yards might be 80 km per hour, but from there in it's 50 km per hour, most of the traffic does exceed that. No, I'm not saying that they're doing 100, but it's still speed is too fast for that road, combined with the heavy goods vehicles and that as well. So I was looking for VMS signage today, budgetary constraints are an issue, but I brought forward the idea that myself and a few more counselors might use GMA funding to get that VMS signage put in there, so that will happen in the coming weeks. I suppose the thing about VMS signage entry is for anybody that's maybe not familiar with that as an acronym, it is just that speed sign that you see where it'll actually give you your speed in real time,

2:05and it will monitor, it will remind you of what the speed limit is, it'll tell you if you're going too fast or too slow. And while you're not, you're never going to get penalized if you're above the speed limit of that situation, it is a stark reminder to you to tell that you are going too fast. It is, and look at, I guess, when you're in a neighborhood where there's a lot of houses, I think we're all more cognizant then that there might be a young child out in a bike or walk and are an elderly person using the road as well, certainly to me it works. And the higher your speed might be above whatever the speed limit is, the more it flashes red at you as well. So it's effective, it certainly works as far as I'm concerned. I suppose over the years, it stay on the Kalaisa road further in just as you come to Abelan. And I know over the years, if I'm not in the kids' school in the morning, and I might be doing 55 as opposed to the 50, and the latter, my two sons, particularly when they're young, they'd have said, get your speed down.

3:06But it does work when you've got the kids in the back seat, they know that you're breaking the rules of the road, and the signage does work. And particularly this stretch for anyone that's familiar with it, we've loads of issues already on the N-68, whether that's going back to Tara, which I know is a separate issue, and needing a speed limit reduction there, whether it's Edenvale, which again, closer to Fair Castle, and once in the restoration of her shoulders there, this stretch, you come in by a clear amount once you get off, even near the Kilrush road. And you've got a stretch for a long distance there, then you're going up a hill, pass ballet beg, pass more houses, pass even a small industrial stage, and you're rapidly going downhill again. So if you are exceeding the speed limit, if there is children that could very possibly be coming out of houses or somebody playing ball, you're not going to see them once you're going downhill, and once you're going down their speed as well. Well, that's it. That's it. But look, I think Paddy Tian and the engineer, his response is positive, from the point of view, that the road road team are willing to put up the signage,

4:09just why do we get the funding? So that's positive. I'm happy enough that the road will become safer on the back of today's proceedings, anyway. This broadcast package on Claire FM, is funded by the local democracy reporting scheme. Thank you very much.