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The proposed traffic lights at St Bernard’s junction in Fermoy will not be installed before 2016. Photo: Eoin Scanlon

Despite continued calls from local residents and elected representatives, the proposed traffic lights at the junction at St Bernard’s Place in Fermoy will not be installed before 2016.

At the May meeting of Fermoy Municipal District Council this week, a motion from Cllr Noel McCarthy asked for an up-to-date report on the proposed traffic lights at the junction on the N8, adjacent to both Shinnick’s Shop and Beechfield Estate.

Roads Engineer Brendan O’Gorman confirmed however that no funding is currently available to progress the scheme. Cllr McCarthy expressed his disappointment at the news, saying the junction is one ‘of the most important areas to have traffic lights in Fermoy because it’s causing huge concern to locals’.

He added: “I use it five mornings a week and it’s so dangerous. I know people who have to go up to Amber to turn around and go back down again, they’re just so nervous trying to cross that road – it’s so busy.”

He proposed writing to Cork County Council as a Municipal Authority to ensure that capital funding is provided for the traffic lights in 2016, a proposal that was welcomed.

Cllr Kevin O’Keeffe asked, in the meantime, if the stop lines on the road coming from St Bernard’s could be moved forward, as cars are ‘sitting back too much and not able to see when it’s free to go’.

In agreement, Mr O’Gorman said he would look to bring the line forward, adding that illegal double yellow line parking outside Shinnick’s Shop is causing further visibility problems.

Cllr Frank O’Flynn added his support to the motion, saying this has been ongoing for ’13 to 14 years now’, and that the present situation is very dangerous.

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