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ELECTION candidates who park vans festooned with their faces and publicity on double-yellow lines and no parking areas around the county have come in for a hammering from a Shannon town councillor.
Councillor Patricia McCarthy told a recent meeting of the town council that the vans are a menace, the way some of the election workers park Weloeee
“When they are carelessly parked, they are a hazard and there’s no mis- taking that,’ she told the meeting.
“T want to know is the council em- powered to tow them away or do we
contact the gardai or what? There can’t be one rule for parking for some people and another rule for others.”
Cllr McCarthy said that in Shan- non, she is also concerned about the way trucks and cars advertised for sale are parked.
‘“There’s one car for sale parked in a yellow box. I had to go to the petrol station recently in Shannon and there was a big articulated truck parked in the feeder lane. The time before that there were three trucks there – I couldn’t see a thing,” she told the meeting.
Cllr McCarthy said that to the best of her knowledge “these are offenc-
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Cllr Gerry Flynn said that the road to the front of the Oakwood Arms “is a very busy road. We need a filter lane on Bothar Mor. There’s the fill- ing station, the Oakwood and now the recycling centre will be coming on line. I think this is something the roads department can do”, he said.
Shannon’s mayor, Tony McMa- hon, said that he 1s concerned about small, broken areas left on the mar- gins when roads are done.
The areas are uneven and unsight- ly, he said, asking whether finishing these areas could be included in road works. During the roads discussion, members were shown a letter from a resident in Shannon, complaining
that the council had put double-yel- low lines to the rear of his house without consulting him.
Roads engineers told the meeting that no parking spaces were sacri- ficed to the double yellow lines.
Cllr Tony Mulcachy asked wheth- er it be possible to have some form of consultation when these type of changes are being made, possibly by having a leaflet drop.
But Cllr Gerry Flynn said that it would not be practical to do leaflet drops for every double yellow line.
“Where we do address problems by widening roads, then we see people parking in the area, it just makes it ridiculous,” he told the meeting.