Old Killaloe Ballina bridge to be pedestrianised permanently
*Photograph: Páraic McMahon. PERMANENT pedestrianisation of the Old Killaloe Ballina Bridge is to come into effect this Friday evening.
*Photograph: Páraic McMahon. PERMANENT pedestrianisation of the Old Killaloe Ballina Bridge is to come into effect this Friday evening.
*Eddie O’Gorman and Richard Coonan at the protest. Photograph: Michael Quigley “LET US have a say in our town” read the sign from protest organiser Eddie O’Gorman as hundreds gathered in Killaloe on Friday evening to demonstrate their opposition to closure of the old bridge to traffic linking the East Clare town with Ballina.
*Killaloe Bridge. A ONE-WAY system as opposed to full-pedestrianisation is required for Killaloe Bridge according to an elected representative for the East Clare town.
*Cllr Pat Hayes (FF). Photograph: Ruth Griffin. AN EAST CLARE representative has accused a Tipperary councillor of spreading “misinformation” about the trial pedestrianisation of the bridge linking Killaloe and Ballina.
PEDESTRIANISATION is to be trialled from the end of July to the middle of October on the old bridge linking Killaloe and Ballina.
*The new bridge between Killaloe and Ballina lit up for the first time. COMPLETION targets for one of the biggest infrastructural projects in East Clare are on track to be met.
*Senior planner, Brian McCarthy and Cllr Tony O’Brien (FF). Photograph: Eamon Ward KILLALOE’s sole elected member of Clare County Council has called on the local authority to defer its trial pedestrianisation of Killaloe Bridge.
KILLALOE BRIDGE is to be pedestrianised for a trial period.
“AN EXCITING FUTURE” has been signalled with the turning of the sod for the new Killaloe Bypass, Shannon Bridge Crossing and R494 Improvement Scheme.
CALLS FOR “a major clean up and facelift” of Killaloe town’s lower end and its bridge crossing the border into Tipperary has been sought.