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HGV's Getting Trapped On Killaloe Main Street "On Weekly Basis"

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A lack of warning signage for Heavy Goods Vehicles is said to be causing traffic chaos in Killaloe. It's been claimed that HGV's are getting stuck on the town's main street on a weekly basis, and are often being held up for an hour at a time. It's understood the issue will be investigated by Killaloe Municipal District Engineers. Killaloe Fianna Fáil Councillor Tony O'Brien says action is urgently needed.

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HGV's Getting Trapped On Killaloe Main Street "On Weekly Basis"

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I think with the advent of Google Maps or whatever it is, and particularly with the bypass being opened and whether it's buses or whether it's HDVs or trucks, there's an incident there on a regular basis where a truck or a large vehicle will get so far down the main street and it can come back up and it's chaos then trying to clear the cars at the bottom of the town and it causes huge congestion, you know, of the junior campus as the pilot for the primary school down the end of town there, your business is down the end of the town, your residential down the end of the town, but it's just signage is badly, badly needed at the top of the main street, the old main street will call it from the Catholic church to green right down to preventing or informing the drivers of large vehicles that it's not a true road, they're not going to be able to make it whole to the other side.

The stressful situation for the HDV drivers and those who you had imagined look at also adds to anybody else that's trying to go about their day, that they don't, they can't, you can't predict or they're just like forgetting, cutting that. Absolutely, and the point you met earlier on was that, you know, it could, it can often take up to an hour, an hour and a half to clear the traffic, you know, so badly needed signage at the top of the main street to inform the drivers of large vehicles that there is, they're not going to be able to make it all to the other side, it's not suitable and to keep them off of the main street.

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