Section of footpath put forward for Active Travel funding

“Delighted” was Cllr Aoife Davitt’s reaction to the responses by the executive of the Municipal District of Mullingar Kinnegad to issues she raised at that body’s February meeting.

Cllr Davitt had asked that the resurfacing of Meadow Court be added to the Estimates for 2021, and was told that can be done.

The Fianna Fáil woman also asked that district staff make good the level of the path and cycle lane on the Dublin/ Bellview Road from the junction at Prospect to the junction into Beechlawns/ Beech Drive.

To this request came the response that that section of footpath has been examined and put forward for Active Travel funding.

The third question submitted by Cllr Davitt asked that the resurfacing of the lane at the rear of Auburn Terrace be added to the Estimates for 2021.

The council gave an undertaking that the work could be considered in the context of the cul de sac 2021 Estimates.

Plea for ramps in Cullion area

“Is there anything we can do?” was the plea made by Cllr Andrew Duncan to county council officials after they informed him they had no plans for speed ramps on the Cullion/ Ballagh Road when he raised it for discussion at the February meeting of the Municipal District of Mullingar Kinnegad.

The response from council officials stated that this was a rural road with a 60kmh speed limit and that no ramps are planned for it.

“I wouldn’t be so happy with that,” Cllr Duncan said, explaining that he was not satisfied that people were sticking to the speed limit on that road.

Cllr Duncan said that locals there believed motorists were using the road to “bypass the bypass”.

“It’s been said to me on many occasions that traffic on that road is way too fast,” he said, adding that if speed ramps were ruled out, he wondered if there were any other mitigation measures that could be used.

Director of services, Martin Murray, said he was not familiar with the issues on that road, but that staff could examine the location to see if there were any other steps that could be taken.

Teen parties claim made

A claim that teenagers are having parties under the trees at a Mullingar housing estate was made a local councillor at the February meeting of the Municipal District of Mullingar Kinnegad.

Cllr Andrew Duncan lodged a question asking that the county council’s Community section meet with residents of Woodlands in relation to boundary between it and Ardleigh Park, to prevent ongoing antisocial behaviour.

Cllr Duncan told the executive that there is a section of concrete panelling between the two estates through which teenagers are passing as they use the route as a shortcut to Patrick Street.

“Some of them are actually having parties there under the trees,” the Fine Gael man stated.

He added that the concrete panel was in a dangerous condition and there was a danger that it would fall on someone.

Director of services Martin Murray stated that a meeting could be arranged with the residents, while the written response also stated that the council’s community section staff had been in contact and were awaiting a response from residents regarding works proposed by the council.