Traffic lights in Mountrath N7

Our man in Havana

I see they are putting a set of lights in Mountrath on the N7 with the junction with the Mountmellick road.

Why? It will only make a bottleneck worse than it already is. What the hell were the NRA/Laois CC thinking?

pleba

I saw those the other day and am now dreading that journey. They seem to be putting them up to aid the traffic coming from the right as you enter Mountrath.

Have you noticed the extrodinary amount of roadworks that have popped up all over the country in the last 4 weeks. The N7 dublin to Limerick being a prime example? Is it really a case, as was suggested, of County Councils having to spend money before September otherwise they wont get as big a budget?

Calina

Noticed the traffic lights and was pretty much saddened - I sort of see the need if you live in the Mountrath area...I'd like to hope that they'd only be used at certain times but I suppose that's too sensible.

Noticed all the roadworks too, along with their honoured in the breach 60kph speed limits. What bugs me is the speed limit comes into force kilometres from where the roadworks actually start. I see the sense in speed limits around roadworks, I don't see the sense in starting them three km away though.

dmeehan

pleba wrote:

Is it really a case, as was suggested, of County Councils having to spend money before September otherwise they wont get as big a budget?

certainly looks like it, there are a lot of new footpaths (ffs) appearing around cork and kerry

Victor

Musn't be the end of the summer construction season at all then or the fact that councils work on calendar budgets.

Our man in Havana

But the estimates need to be in by October time. So the money needs to be gone by september