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There are 24 lights lighting up a bridge on the N17 outside Claremorris yet there is no illumination at a dangerous junction just metres away which has been the site of 13 accidents. And there is no way to make the junction safe, local councillors were told this week.

Councillor Joe Reidy has confirmed a number of measures to improve facilities for taxi drivers and their customers in Kilkenny.

The residents of Watersville, Pontoon Road, Castlebar secured a victory in their fight to stop a relief road passing through their estate this week at the monthly meeting of Castlebar Town Council. A large group of the residents attended the meeting in Marsh House where the elected members rejected a new inner relief road from the Pontoon Road to Rathbawn that would have passed through their estate. A motion from independent Councillor Michael Kilcoyne which was seconded by Fíanna Fáil Cllr Blackie Gavin was passed which will see the proposed improvement works on New Line and Davitt’s Terrace go ahead, but the works will terminate after Davitt’s Terrace and no relief road will be built through the Watersville area. The road is now off the table for at least six months and after which time the town manager can put the proposal before the elected members again.

Mayo County Council senior engineer Joe Beirne gave a warning to the elected members of Mayo County Council that he couldn’t see any major roads projects starting in Mayo in the next six years. Beirne was informing the council of the roads programmes for 2009 at the council’s annual budget meeting.

Work which began at St Kieran’s Cemetery last year to restore and construct footpaths is set to recommence this month.

Ballina Town Council could be on a collision course with the Department of the Environment they were warned when they amended the town development plan this week.

Mayo County Council is running out of salt for gritting the county’s roads so a reprieve from the current cold snap will be welcome. At present there is only enough salt left to grit the roads until the end of this week and after that resources will be very limited.

Proposed plans to provide bus set-down areas and bus shelters with timetable information are strictly for commercial use and will not be used for school buses Kilkenny Borough Council members heard this week.

While controversy surrounded the proposed preferred route of the Westport to Bohola dual carriageway in the Castlebar area, with the Murphy family home in Doogarry, Breaffy, to be demolished to accommodate the road, members of the Westport Electoral Area Committee this week proposed that the 40km type two dual carriageway route be given the go ahead.

The department for Environment, Heritage and Local Government has issued an approval for the redevelopment of the Top Street in Ossory Park.