ENGAGEMENT with Corrib Drive residents has been flagged as crucial if traffic calming measures are to be advanced in Shannon.
Installation of traffic calming measures was requested by Cllr Donna McGettigan (SF) for Corrib Drive with residents worrying “about the speed of cars and the fact that children use the road”.
Corrib Drive consists of two one-way lines, both of which are approximately 500m in length. It serves a number of residential developments with a church, national school and soccer club at its south eastern end.
Senior executive engineer in the Shannon Municipal District, Tom Mellett detailed that a speed survey for each line would be organised to “determine the extent of the problem”. Staff in road design office will be pressed to identify suitable traffic calming measures. He acknowledged, “a number of residents with properties fronting onto the road, park on the road edge”.
Whatever ideas are put forward, residents “need to be engaged”, Cllr McGettigan affirmed and she suggested this be done by means of a survey.
“Local people expect public consultation would happen when it is possible to do so,” Cllr Gerry Flynn (IND) stated. He described Corrib Drive as “probably the most beautiful area of Shannon with traffic coming both ways”.
