LEARN TO LIVE WITH RAMPS
IF speed ramps can save even one life Dromore drivers will just have to learn to live with them.
That was one resident's response to news that some locals had complained about traffic ramps at Diamond Road and Pound Hill.
As reported last week, the complaints were aired at a recent council meeting, where they appeared to find sympathy among some members.
But now one Leader reader has said councillors would be better off focusing on other issues.
Councillor David Herron raised the ramps issue in council after speaking to local farmers who insist the ramps are damaging trailers, while Councillor Carol Black said some were travelling into town by tractor rather than risk damage to their cars. There were complaints that the ramps were too many and too high - one councillor describing the Diamond Road as resembling the approach to an army base - and questions over public consultation prior to installation, councillors conceding the possibility they themselves might have signed off on the scheme.
There were calls too for an on-site meeting with Roads Service to discuss the matter.
But one Diamond Road resident, at least, is clear that there was indeed consultation.
"I read your story in this week's Leader concerning the traffic-calming measures which were introduced on the Diamond Road," he said. "The Roads Service sent a detailed drawing of the proposed traffic-calming scheme, advising me that if I had any objections to the scheme I should submit them before 17 November 2008."
Was he then the only resident to receive word of the proposal and contact Roads Service, he asked.
"I do feel so SORRY for those poor drivers, of any type of vehicle," he said, "who cannot read the warning signs or adjust their road speed accordingly to suit the road conditions, and should it save one life, then learn to live with it."
The only problem, he said, was that drivers were now using Circular Road as what he called "a rat run" and the "antics" of some drivers, male and female alike, while driving their children to and from local schools, "beggared belief".
He finally appealed to councillors "to direct more of their efforts to solving the problems which your other story, on page five, highlights".
The article in question reported that Dromore mums were steering clear of the town's playpark with their children thanks to a crowd of foul-mouthed teens gathering there every night.
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