| THE EXTRA RESIDENTIAL TRAFFIC |
| Once these 66 new dwellings have been built, what about the extra
residential traffic using Eagry? |
| The first amended plans were taken to Moyle Council on 27 May
2002 as a refusal (among others things) that there was : - |
"....Unsatisfactory
access arrangements" |
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| So the Developer brought in his own outside consultants who
carried out a one-day survey at the Straid
Road/Eagry Park junction from 8.30am to 9.30am and from 4.30pm to 6pm on
Thursday 27th June 2002 . And as a result of their 2.5 hour findings the
Consultants wrote:- |
"The existing road network
is sufficient to cope with the additional traffic generated by the
proposed development". |
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| So from being refused on "Unsatisfactory
access arrangements". One 2.5 hr. survey-day results in an
about-face and Roads Service finds both applications acceptable. |
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| But hold on. This survey was conducted during the usual going to
and fro commuting times, yet this is a holiday area and it is even mooted
people
might be buying these new properties as holiday homes. There are many
holiday homes already within the existing Eagry estate. So why choose to
survey traffic only during commuting hours? Far be it for me to suggest
this might appear to be massaging the statistics. |
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| The same company also checked the visibility splay at the Straid Road/Eagry
junction and concluded :- |
"The
junction is deemed acceptable to facilitate the proposed development"
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| We have copies of some of the documents relating to this survey which
you are welcome to view here at No. 32, but there are many pages involved
in this survey and we could not afford to pay for all the
pages
to be copied. But from trawling through the paperwork I think I
understand that that the geometry of road junctions are based on a set
of equations
called Vehicular
Access
Standards,
which
is
a set
of
tables based upon the volume and speed of traffic. One
set of these tables says that if traffic speeds on the priority road (Straid
Road in our case) are below 37 mph
and Eagry households are generating less than ten trips a day then our
Straid Rd/Eagry Rd junction is "acceptable to facilitate the proposed
development". Which leads one to ask..."is all the traffic speeding
down the Straid Road hill less than 37 mph?" |
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