Notice of Motion

Motions in the name of Cllr Sinead Guckian -I ask the Director of Services, Infrastructure to ensure that the excessive and inappropriately large road signage within the village of Drumsna be removed.

REPLY:-At present the NRA are carrying out a National Network Re-signing project on all National routes and are currently working on the N4 in Leitrim. The aim of this signage scheme is to standardize direction signage across the county, in response to legitimate criticism of substandard and inconsistent road signage in different counties. As part of this project the signs in Drumsna to and from the National road are being revised. These revisions will have the effect of reducing the size of the largest sign face on the Green area in the village from 8.58 sq. mts. to 3.3 sq. mts. A list of all of the proposed Sign changes in the village, which indicates the sizes of the proposed and the existing sign faces, and also included is a layout map showing their location can be made available to the Councillor.

Response by Cllr Sinead Guckian to the reply ; Having looked at the proposed New plan of additional N4 signage for Drumsna, it is evident to me that this is excessive, inappropriate and a waste of tax payers money. The real “inconsistency” here is the fact that no other N4 adjacent village has the same excessive amount of signs.

Less  than 24 months ago, the Council introduced a number of additional new N4 signs in the fair green area of Drumsna, at this time I questioned this action, as previously the Drumsna Development Association, the tidy towns committee within the village, had already requested the Council to remove the excessive N4 signage on Fairgreen. This had been highlighted as inappropriate in Tidy towns reports. While it can take up to two years to get a finger board sign indicating the direction to “Effernagh”, “Eslin” or “Keshcarrigan” and that’s if there’s a budget ! there seems to be no limit to the funds or the speed to which you can have signs saying “N4″, this is not right or acceptable.

The Council proceeded with the”N4″ signage 24 months ago, regardless of the objections and now we find that on top of that program of signage, the NRA are introducing even more signs.

The proposed signage, which will all indicate either “N4 Dublin” or “N4 Carrick” is a waste of money and an eye sore in our quant village and an insult to all the voluntary members of our community who work so hard to make  Drumsna an attractive place to live in and visit. The plan for the new NRA signage in Drumsna is extremely excessive and there are not as many signs on the new M4 \M50 Junction at Dublin. Drumsna is not a large motor way junction or a large roundabout, it is a village and no other village in Leitrim along the N4 has as many N4 signs as Drumsna currently has, never mind how many are now proposed.

I am calling on the support of the members in having this plan of signage revisited with a view to reducing the amounts to be erected and removing the large 8mtsq sign on fairgreen. I also look for the support of the members in calling on the NRA to make better use of their budget and to provide public lighting on the slip road junctions at Drumsna and Jamestown, as per by my many motions calling for same over the past number of years to no avail. These two junctions off the N4 are the only two villages on this national primary route that do not have public lighting and by providing funding for this lighting they could ensure safer junctions.

Councillor Sinead Guckian – 09/05/2011

Questions in the name of Cllr Sinead Guckian:-

I ask the Director of Services, Infrastructure for a copy of the report on the costing of the installation of additional public lighting on Crow Hill in Drumsna. As per my Notice of Motion in February, it was agreed that costing of these works would be provided.

REPLY: -It is considered that the public lighting can only reasonably be extended as far as the village extents as defined by the road speed limits signs. This would require the provision of an additional 3 no lights (5m decorative black as in per existing in village). Further, civil works involving laying of underground ducting, provision of mini pillar and micro pillar, installation of foundations for lights would be required. ESB Newwork connection costs and possible relocation of Eircom service are also included in cost estimate. The estimated total cost of providing these additional lights and ancillary works is EUR10,860.

Councillor Sinead Guckian requested that this project would be prioritized, as stated previously during the darker months of the year it is unacceptable within a village to have a street in complete darkness.

Questions in the name of Cllr Sinead Guckian:-

I ask the County Manager to meet with Members of the Chamber of Commerce to discuss further, their proposal for “One Hour Free” parking in Carrick on Shannon. The Chamber of Commerce have forwarded a copy of their request for consideration.

REPLY:-

The Council is willing to engage in discussions with the Chamber of Commerce and businesses in this regard.

Councillor Sinead Guckian requested the County Manager to commit to the introduction of a scheme of free-parking period within Carrick on Shannon’s main street  and to confirm that the proposed meeting would be to work out the details of same rather than to investigate if free-parking could be considered. Following a brief debate on the matter, the county Manager gave a commitment to the introduction of a free-parking scheme and advised that the details and mechanism of same would be discussed and agreed with the Chamber of Commerce. Cllr Guckian welcomed this progress. as she outlined that the traders in the town were best placed to know what would be the most beneficial and effective scheme of parking. She also secured confirmation that the current parking meters within the town could be calibrated to support any new scheme and that the proposed meeting would be held as soon as possible.

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