FIANNA Fáil councillor Catherine Slattery has called on Limerick Council to make improvements to the traffic and lighting layout at Woodlawn Park as two new housing schemes have been established in the area.
In response to Cllr Slattery’s call, for the second time in recent weeks, the Council said a traffic survey will be arranged at the Ballysimon Road/Woodlawn Park junction. She was also informed that the data gathered from the survey will be used in the consideration of possible improvements to traffic management at the junction.
Not overly impressed with the reply at the March Metropolitan District meeting, she asked: “I mean, is that it, like?”
“I’d be just frightened that you come back and say that the traffic survey, depending on what time you do it, showed that there’s nothing wrong up in the area. I don’t know where we’re going to go from here.”
The Fianna Fáil woman was assured by the local authority that the survey equipment would be in place for a number of weeks to get an accurate reading of the situation in the area.
Labour Party councillor Padraigh Reale supported Cllr Slattery’s proposal, saying:
“I’m often in Woodland Park. It’s close to my own community and it is congested at the best times. Something needs to be done, but it needs to be expedited, it needs to be done as a matter of urgency, because the population in that housing estate is going to increase over the next couple of weeks.”