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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

QUESTION NO. 5

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Manager to reconsider my previous request for installation of a signalised pedestrian crossing on Griffeen Avenue at Oldbridge Estate. The provision of a signalised pedestrian crossing at this location has been a long-held objective of the local community in Oldbridge, Rossberry, Tullyhall and Hayden’s Park Estates, from where many pedestrians, including hundreds of school children, have to cross the busy Griffeen Avenue to access Griffeen Valley Educate Together NS, the Griffeen Youth Centre, the local shops and bus-stops. The provision of a new signalised pedestrian crossing at this location could reliably be expected to increase the overall number of pedestrians crossing Griffeen Avenue and in particular to increase the numbers of children (and parents) walking to school; and therefore would the Manager agree that the fact that a traffic count warrant has not yet been reached should be disregarded as a reason not to install this importantly-strategic signalised pedestrian crossing? 

REPLY:

The Council policy in relation to the provision of pedestrian traffic lights facilities relates to need to meet the traffic /pedestrian warrant and the availability of resources. The Council has difficulty in this economic climate in providing pedestrian facilities for those locations which actually meet this warrant and it would be unfair to provide such facilities where warrants are not met. It should be noted that the warrant arrangements are currently being examined with a view to reporting to the SPC next week.