Kerry County Council’s Director of Roads has said he has no concerns about the width of the road being worked on in Fossa.
A major road project is continuing at Fossa, to include a new footpath, cycleway, and pedestrian crossing.
The assurance on the width from the council comes as one county councillor suggested organising a test with two trucks driving against each other to settle the issue once and for all.
Cathaoirleach of the Killarney Municipal District, Maura Healy-Rae, said she has huge concern about the width of the new roadway in Fossa.
Cllr Healy-Rae said it will be six metres wide, and buses and lorries are around 2.5-metres wide each, while some tractors are almost three-metres wide.
She said if a vehicle breaks down on this road, it will have to close.
Fellow Independent councillor Johnny Healy-Rae said if a lorry belonging to the council happened to give up on that road, it would block the road to Cork on one side, and to Killorglin and Cahersiveen on the other.
Cllr Johnny Healy-Rae said it was a waste of money and there was no need for it.
Labour councillor Marie Moloney said there's currently mayhem in the village.
Cllr Niall ‘Botty’ O’Callaghan suggested organising for two buses or two trucks to do a test on the road.
Cllr O’Callaghan said councillors are being plagued.
He said he acknowledges that experts are saying it will be fine, but the council should organise a test with two large vehicles this week and settle it.
Kerry County Council’s Director of Roads, Frank Hartnett, said it’s an ongoing live project, and so there will be disruption.
He added he has no issue with the width of the roadway at all.
He said it’s a complicated job and the traffic management is a fluid situation.
In relation to it being unnecessary and a waste of time, Mr Hartnett said it had been approved by Killarney councillors and it was tendered and procured under the normal rules.
