A Cork county councillor has called for urgent action to be taken to alleviate road safety dangers for pedestrians walking to schools in Coachford.<\/p>\n
Fine Gael councillor Kate Lynch said the route that children and parents have to take to the primary and secondary schools in Coachford is \u201cchaotic and actually frightening\u201d.<\/p>\n
Raising the issue at the recent Macroom municipal district council meeting, Ms Lynch highlighted the dangers posed for children and parents walking to school in Coachford at rush hour times.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of mothers that walk to school from the village itself,\u201d Ms Lynch told The Echo.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere is no footpath on one side. There is a narrow footpath on the other side, but it doesn\u2019t start at the end of the road. There is about 100 yards where you have no footpath whatsoever.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no pedestrian crossing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both Coachford National School and Coachford College secondary school are located on the Glebe Rd.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the best of times, that road is very narrow for two cars to pass anyway,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went down there one morning and from 7.45am to 9am it was chaotic there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI stood across the road with a few parents. It was actually frightening.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBoth schools have grown so much in the last couple of years. There are 1,000 children going up that road every morning,\u201d\n <\/p>\n
Although welcoming a potential short-term measure from the council of better road signage, Ms Lynch said that a permanent solution is required, before an accident causes serious injury or a fatality.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson from Cork County Council told The Echo: \u201cCork County Council is aware of the issues relating to pedestrian access along the Glebe Rd from Coachford village to the schools.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder Round 2 of the Safe Route to School Programme, funding has been made available from the National Transport Authority to design improved access in the area. This design is at an early stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cConstruction of any scheme will be dependent on future funding and the co-operation of landowners in the area,\u201d said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cork county councillor has called for urgent action to be taken to alleviate road safety dangers for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,41435,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-116174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-cork-schools","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}