Fight to Achieve Safer Road Conditions

For many years now I have along with residents of Crawfordsburn and the local Primary School been calling on the Roads Service to install some form of traffic calming measurers near the school on the busy Cootehall Road.

I have already achieved red road marking but have highlighted to Roads that these are too far apart and should be nearer the school.

Having met with the Chief Executive of the South Eastern Education and Library Board, the Roads Service, the PSNI and the school Principal I am seeking to find an answer to this problem. With the increase of school numbers and traffic speeding along this busy road I have asked the Roads Service to install flashing safety signs, have the sight lines improved at the school and adjustments made inside the school gates to receive some of the traffic. None of this is an impossibility.

There has been a degree of movement and I am hopeful that the improvements which are very necessary will take place sooner rather than later. This is a problem involving young promary school children and simply cannot be shuffled from one department to another. The PSNI, the Roads Service and the SEELB are all very aware of what is necessary and I aim to make sure that safety measurers take place on this busy road.