Traders along the former main route are claiming that car drivers travelling between Dublin and the west were using the new motorway mainly because of a lack of signs giving them little information on where to divert to traditional food and refreshment stops.
The expression “the worst of all worlds” is being used to describe the situation. They claim that the truck drivers are driving very quickly through the towns.
Redmond Kennedy of the Monastery Inn at Clonard, said he was thinking of taking legal action to force the National Roads Authority (NRA) to indicate alternative free routes on its signs.
The idea is to get a drivers’ attention that other routes were available.
Apparently NRA had said that the signs, to be erected at Kinnegad and Enfield would indicate the presence of Clonard. Mr Kennedy said that no such sign had been erected.
A Eurolink spokesman said that the signage had been dictated by the NRA. Eurolink had agreed with the recommendations.
