LABOUR Party councillor Conor Sheehan has welcomed the plans to create a proper footpath and cycle path on the Mill Road with accompanying traffic management system.
The City North representative this week congratulated the various residents associations on the Mill Road for their hard work in advancing this badly needed infrastructure and the Council officials for all their hard work in bringing the project to this stage.
“The works will involve the creation of a purpose built 600 metre long segregated shared surface with a cycle path and footpath stretching from Scoil Ide all the way down the Mill Road. There will also be a traffic management system installed along the road,” Cllr Sheehan told the Limerick Post.
“It will also involve the acquisition of a small portion of land that the diocesan has kindly agreed to give the Council to allow for the construction of the path.”
Cllr Sheehan believes this is a badly needed piece of infrastructure for the people of the Mill Road. He also pointed out that as it was a planning application, residents would have an opportunity to have their say by making submissions to the local authority.
“It will allow residents to walk their children safely to and from Scoil Ide. The footpaths on the Mill Road are only 0.5 metres wide in places and it is currently impossible to traverse the length of the road in a wheelchair or with a child in a pram.
“These works are the culmination of years of hard work between the local authority, local residents associations and the diocese,” he concluded.
