Youghal Councillor Wants “Lonely” Bus Stop Restored
By Christy Parker | Photos by Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)
Youghal Cllr Mary - Linehan Foley wants Bus Eireann to abode by an agreement to relocate the Waterford-Cork bus stop from the Fair Field to the back street, near the AIB entrance. In ludicrous fashion, the agreement has seen the site now road marked as a bus stop -amidst advanced plans for a shelter- but not operating as one! Meanwhile the traffic chaos that the new stop was intended to alleviate continues unabated at the Fair Field stop.
The councillor was informed at the March Town Council meeting that Bus Eireann had changed its mind after apparently one complaint that the new location was ‘lonely and desolate.’ Cllr Linehan Foley said she respected everyone’s right to complain but that motions sanctioned by the council should be honoured. She added that projected landscaping and redesign of the Fair Field expected the removal of the bus stop.
Cllr Sammy Revins said the matter was still alive as “a health and safety” issue. Cllr Linehan Foley meanwhile will heed the Town Clerk’s advice and propose the restoration of the stop as a motion at the next meeting.
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I would like to make the following observation regarding the present proposed new stop on Catherine Street New.
If there are trucks unloading at the rear of Supervalue and a bus stops there, the traffic will come to a complete standstill as far as I can see.