Road deaths in Ireland

Again the road death rises, two people killed on Wicklow roads (23/04/07), bad roads possibly the primary cause.

Attention won't be turned to killer stretch of N11 until 2010

WICKLOW PEOPLE (Thu, Apr 26 2007)

Attention will not be turned to the killer stretch of the N11 from Rathnew to Arklow until at least 2010, the National Roads Authority confirmed this week.
Monday's tragic accident in which two men were killed has reignited demands for funding to be released for the 19 kilometre 'missing link'.
It is the last piece of the national route through County Wicklow to remain a single carriageway and the road has claimed the lives of 18 people in the last decade.
At the scene of Monday's accident on the Ballinameesda Bends there have been 22 less serious crashes in the last 12 months.
A spokesperson for the NRA said that the matter was a policy issue and that their focus was on the primary inter-urban routes between Dublin and Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and the border.
He stated that this policy was dictated by a government directive.
He said that the NRA just built the roads, it was the Department of Transport that sanctioned the funding.
The policy was based on regional needs and was required to put an end to the haphazard way in which roads were constructed in the past resulting in sections of roadway being completed while others were left undone. He agreed that this appeared to be the case with the N11 through County Wicklow as there was just one section left incomplete.

We have politicians that are doing all in their power to win votes in elections with promises of transport infrastructure improvement, and yet nothing is done.

The road system in Ireland is a disaster; you have partial motorways partially linking the major cities, we have national roads that go straight through the centre of towns, we have rural roads with no road signs. Hitler was an evil man but he did have one great idea and that was to create a transport infrastructure, If only our short term thinking Politicians could do the same. Now our politicians will tell you that they are getting there and maybe they are but the Germans got there in the 1940’s nearly seventy years ago. The infrastructure that is being built in this country is already twenty years out of date, you only have to look at the M50 around Dublin, when it was finished it was already reaching maximum capacity, only in the last year (2006) did they realize that something had to be done to alleviate the congestion. Even when this upgrade on the M50 is completed it will still be out of date. No future planning again.

These same politicians have been making the same promises for the last twenty years, how can we be so gullible and put them back in power.