Leitrim to get green light at last

Victor · 22-08-2003 06:13PM #1

http://home.eircom.net/content/unison/national/1243341?view=Eircomnet

Leitrim to get green light at last
From:The Irish Independent
Friday, 22nd August, 2003
Anita Guidera

LEITRIM is to get its first set of traffic lights.

The least crowded county is the last to have survived without lights. But from next month they will be controlling the traffic flow at the Leitrim Road junction in Carrick-on-Shannon.

Billy Lowe, acting director of services with Leitrim County Council, said there had been problems at peak times. "Particularly since the arrival of MBNA in the town, with the creation of 900 jobs, a lot of additional traffic has been generated."

The council will also install pedestrian traffic lights at the bridge where the N4 bypasses the town.

mike65 · 22-08-2003 06:20PM

I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw that on Aertel! Leitrim
truely is beyond the back of beyond!

Mike.

gombín · 22-08-2003 06:39PM

Is there not already a set of traffic lights on the canal lock outside Leitrim Town?

oeNeo · 22-08-2003 06:49PM

I too roffled when I saw that. God bless Leitrim.

Victor · 22-08-2003 06:54PM

Am I right that Leitrim is the only county, split almost evenly in two parts, with no direct (within the county) road connection between the two? You have to go through Dowra on the border with Cavan.

Originally posted by gombín
Is there not already a set of traffic lights on the canal lock outside Leitrim Town?

For canals boat or cars?

John R · 22-08-2003 10:14PM

It's no joke. Leitrim has the most congested canal in Europe:D

27-11-2005 07:19AM

no you can travel from drumkeeran to drumshanbo!you dont have to leave the county!

Alun · 27-11-2005 10:10AM

In theory then, people can actually learn to drive, and presumably pass a driving test in Leitrim then, without ever seeing a traffic light :eek: ? What's the letter used on reg plates from there, so I can avoid them next time I see one!

Maskhadov · 27-11-2005 10:25AM

wow. Leitrim is really moving up in the world:D

mackerski · 27-11-2005 11:04AM

My first thought was "That's not true!", until I noticed that the article was from 2003. But it's also true that Leitrim's first set of traffic lights had been deployed a few years previously on the canal.

Personally, I think not to need traffic lights is a very good thing.

Dermot

27-11-2005 03:37PM

we have lm plates!

Hagar · 27-11-2005 03:52PM

But will they work? Without electricity I mean...:D

27-11-2005 03:58PM

ah but we have magic arigna coal!

mackerski · 27-11-2005 05:05PM

Deleted User wrote:

ah but we have magic arigna coal!

It is magic too - we all saw it disappear.

Dermot

Leitrim to get green light at last

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