LIMERICK City and County Council has agreed to a design review aimed at making the Ballycummin Road in Raheen safer for pedestrians and cyclists.
Referring to a new controlled crossing point at the Raheen Business Park pedestrian access point on the Ballycummin Road, Fine Gael councillor Daniel Butler said that a raised table top platform at the crossing would also help to reduce traffic speed.
“Ballycummin Road has been a road known for speeding over the years with an incident of a speed feedback sign being broken as a car crashed into it.
“It is a road used by pedestrians as part of the heavily used Raheen/Dooradoyle walking circle. It houses a number of houses along the route as well as access roads to other estates and of course access to Raheen Business Park,” the City West representative told the Limerick Post.
“The road definitely has speeding issues, particularly traffic travelling from the Ballyclough direction, according speed audits. It has been an issue I have been grappling with for years. We now also have bus stops on the route and a pedestrian and cyclist access point into the industrial estate, that many locals use to get to work and others use to get a bus.”
The delivery of the new controlled crossing point is expected to be delivered within the next six to eight weeks.
“This will be the only controlled crossing point along this long stretch of road supporting people walking to work and for leisure or indeed those cycling.
“In the long term, I have secured commitment that the whole road is to undergo a review with a design to deliver a safer road for pedestrians and cyclists to come before us as councillors, hopefully, by the end of the year. This will transform this road into a residential style road as it should be rather than the dangerous one it now is,” he concluded.
