Letter to the Editor: Slow down on Flower Hill

Dear sir – Last week, a report in your newspaper quoted Cllr Padraig Fitzsimons describing the Boreen Keel as one of the most treacherous routes in the town of Navan, if not the county.

Well, let me add to that list, and make a simple appeal to motorists and road users on Flower Hill to slow down.

It seems that once drivers cross the Pollboy Bridge, they feel that they have licence to put the foot down and take off up the hill like their lives depended on it.

There is little consideration for the pedestrians using the very narrow footpaths on the ascent, passing doors that open out onto the path.

The speed of a vehicle up that hill could easily swipe anybody out of it, and this is compounded when people are meeting on the narrow footpath.

This is not just a throughfare out of town, it is a residential area, and a previous letter writer to your paper has already highlighted the obstacles on the footpath between cars and signposts when trying to negotiate onto the Ratholdron Road.

Here again, the lack of decent pedestrian facilities is quite apparent, especially in these Covid times when we are trying to maintain some space between each other.

So I appeal to drivers to slow down on Flower Hill – it is not a racetrack, even if it leads to one.

Yours,

Jim O’Neill,

Blackcastle Lodge,

Navan.