Waterford, Ireland / WLR
Feb 18, 2021 9:37 AM
One and a quarter million euro is to be spent on a traffic calming scheme at a collision blackspot on the main Waterford to Cork Road.
Councillors have approved the measures for Carrolls Cross which include traffic calming islands, reduction of the width of the carriageway to 10 metres, public lighting, enhanced road signage and markings and kerbed hard shoulders.
Waterford Council’s senior roads engineer Gabriel Hynes told councillors in the Comeragh area at their February meeting that the overall length of the scheme is 500 metres and the estimated cost was €1.25 million.
Nearby residents have been calling for the layout of the road to be changed for years following a series of crashes, one fatal. In July 2019, 75 year-old Oliver Kirwan from Kilmacthomas lost his life following an accident at the junction.