{"id":452286,"date":"2026-05-16T17:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452286\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T17:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:52:13","slug":"kerry-town-to-face-rising-traffic-congestion-over-drive-thru-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452286\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry town to face rising traffic congestion over drive-thru plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">New KFC at Manor West will offer a drive-thru service\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An example of the gridlock caused by accessing drive-thru services at Manor. Photo Mark O'Sullivan.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c0f04f11-b9cc-4037-9cfd-e164a960aebb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">An example of the gridlock caused by accessing drive-thru services at Manor. Photo Mark O&#8217;Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Traffic on the R875 in Tralee regularly backs up due to the popularity of drive-thru services at Manor West. Evenings and weekends are particularly chaotic, with a makeshift third lane of traffic often forming as cars queue to turn into McDonald\u2019s, spilling back as far as the Clashlehane Roundabout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">While people have every right to enjoy a takeaway, the disruption to traffic is becoming impossible to ignore. This stretch of road is already one of Tralee\u2019s busiest, serving as the main entry point from Killarney and Castleisland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New KFC at Manor West will offer a drive-thru service An example of the gridlock caused by accessing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,16585],"class_list":["post-452286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-stephen-fernane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452286","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=452286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}