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Leitrim to get green light at last

  • 22-08-2003 6:13pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,647 ✭✭✭✭


    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.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


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

    Mike.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭gombín


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,299 ✭✭✭oeNeo


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,647 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    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? ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,106 ✭✭✭John R


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


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  • Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,529 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    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!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭Maskhadov


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭mackerski


    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


  • Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    we have lm plates!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


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


  • Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ah but we have magic arigna coal!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭mackerski


    ah but we have magic arigna coal!

    It is magic too - we all saw it disappear.

    Dermot


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