Turtulla Cross - Thurles Information

Thurles Road Safety Week -183 White Crosses

Lives lost through road accidents this year.

Congratulations must go to Thurles Gardaí for highlighting Road Safety Week in Thurles, by the erection of 183 white crosses at Turtulla near Thurles Golf Club.

Each cross represents a life lost on the roads of Ireland and stands as a visual reminder of how we all need to take greater care while driving.

Gardaí locally, also distributed 2000 free visibility safety vests and armbands, to members of the public in Thurles town over the course of the week.

The L.A.D.S. (Let’s All Drive Slower) initiative program has also been launched for local drivers who received free car stickers, as part of their commitment to drive slower on our roads.

Sobering Thought

For those of you who continue to drive drunken, unfocused, carelessly, showing no respect for the personal or public safety of others, is there any chance you might carry an Organ Donor Card. You can apply for same here or you can tick and sign the back of your current driving licences.

Your undamaged spare parts can then be removed /salvaged and come in handy in assisting others, who so greatly value that wonderful gift called ‘life‘.

Remember: Although you placed little value on your own life, after death this action will be of some small consolation to your distraught parents, grieving siblings and friends, for whom your total stupidity will also have life changing consequences.

Just a thought and well done Thurles Gardaí on your initiative.

Five Persons In Hospital Following Collision In Thurles Co. Tipperary Yesterday.

Five Persons Hospitalized Following Two-vehicle Collision In Thurles Co. Tipperary Yesterday.

As reported yesterday, it is understood that five people were hospitalised following a serious road traffic collision, involving two motor vehicles, on the N62 south of Thurles, Co Tipperary, between Turtulla Cross and Clongour Road Junction yesterday.

The serious collision which occurred yesterday morning, saw a five persons; three male juvenile teens and two women, aged in their late 40s and 50s removed to Limerick University Hospital by two helicopters, to be treated for injuries. The injuries to one teen is understood by Gardaí to be serious.

The road which was closed until late yesterday evening for examination and has now fully reopened.

Thurles Gardaí are now appealing for any witnesses to this collision to make themselves known. Road users who may have dash-cam footage and were travelling in this area between 10.30am and 11.15am are asked to make this footage available.

Persons with information are asked to contact Thurles Garda Station TEL: 0504 25100, the Garda Confidential Line TEL: 1800 666 111, or indeed any Garda Station.

Motorists Beware Of Severe Flooding Around Thurles.

Drivers are being asked presently to take great care while manoeuvring all vehicles around Thurles.

Due to the total lack of maintenance by Thurles Municipal District Council officials, most of the roads in the area are now flooded, due to a basic maintenance failure; to simply clean road drains.

**Kickham Street, Thurles, August 15th, 2022.**

Kickham Street east of the town is worst hit, with water running like a river from Willowmere Drive, down Kickham Street, as far as Cathedral Street Roundabout.

The N62 Slievenamon Road as far as Turtulla Cross is also experiencing flooding, due to this same problem, a failure to clean road drains.

Mill Road is seriously flooded, because a builder has waltzed off, leaving road drains packed with clay gravel etc.; no doubt their work signed off on behalf of Tipperary Co. Council, by a county, qualified, council engineer.

**Mill Road south**, **Thurles**, **August 15th, 2022**

At the Junction of Mill Road South and the turn off to the Archerstown Industrial Estate, latter travelling west, flooding is almost making the road impassable, once again, caused by the failure to open the shore into the nearby Poulaneigh river.

Tipperary County / Municipal District Councillors – For your Information.

Please read the link shown HERE.

[No laughing please, this is not a laughing matter.]

What you have read is a statement sent to Tipperarylive.ie. with the keyword or hashtag ‘potholes‘.

Everyone knows that Tipperarylive.ie do not fill potholes, so we must assume that Councillor Mr Jim Ryan in his statement, was in contact with them, simply to build his dwindling profile as a public representative.

In this statement Councillor Mr Jim Ryan congratulates, quote, “our local District Engineer and his outdoor team for all that they have done within the district and they are fully aware of these roads and have been filling in potholes, but the problem is that these works are getting washed away with heavy rain.” [No mention of the ‘Double Ditch’ issue, latter situated 2 minute walking time from Mr Ryan’s home; to Tipperarylive.ie.]

Truth is “local District Engineer and his outdoor team” do not know how to fill a pothole. Too much cold tarmac sitting above in their yard.

No Sir, Councillor Mr Jim Ryan; these slovenly works are being unravelled by heavy traffic e.g. large tractors wheels, heavy laden cattle trucks, eighteen wheeler container trucks, not to mention inadequate drainage; before this ‘maintenance team’ reaches the next pothole.

Reported by : *George Willoughby* *(Not a local councillor [MDCC]).*

Attention Tipperary County / Municipal District Councillors – Please Take Special Note.

Councillers, I am aware that you have received very little training during this COVID-19 pandemic, (except on how to fill-in claims for salary and expenses). So carefully try to learn, the correct way to report Pot Hole issues, Broken Pavements, Street Lighting, Fly Tipping, Rotten Trees, Weeds, and unacceptable Road Surfaces.

Go to the link shown HERE.

The beauty of this link is that you must supply your name and email address, thus automatically giving you a God-like profile in time for the next local election, when you continuously report an issue.

If the issue has already been reported then they will inform you. The race is on — first to report the issue and get your profile promoted. [See picture above, look who stole the fame, renown and prestige resulting from this great achievement.] and I won’t need to go running to TippFM or Tipperarylive.ie, since none of the latter undertake any road repairs, whatsoever.

Should any County / Municipal District Councillor need help operating the programming on FixMyStreet , we here at Thurles.Info will be happy to assist (for a small Fee of course).

We also reported the “Crater at Turtulla Cross”, latter which has been ignored for seven weeks, by “local District Engineer and his outdoor team“.

Report confirmation again received by : *George Willoughby*

I should point out that any frustraited motorist can contact the site FixMyStreet to report an issue. This also helps when you are seeking compensation for damage to their vehicle or a death caused due to neglected road works.
Tipperary Co. Council or TII can no longer use the excuse in court, “We were not aware of the problem”, since the MYGOV website FixMyStreet notify the relative authority immediately and also notify the person making the complaint of any future progress.

Who needs money wasting, powerless, County / Municipal District Councillors in the 21st century?
We can do their work and eradicate Local Property Tax charges.

Second Warning To Those Using N62 – Thurles To Horse & Jockey Road.

Thurles Golf Club offers a new nineteen hole course to golfing enthusiasts.

On December 14th, 2020 last, [View HERE and note date.] we warned motorists of road surface problems on the corner of where the Mill Road joins the N62 at Turtulla Cross; west of the Archerstown Industrial Estate and south of Thurles Golf Club, on the south facing corner of that junction, one mile from Councillor Jim Ryans House.

**Open crater or new hole for Golfing enthusiasts** **at Turtulla Cross, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.**

Since then, last week this issue was again raised by Councillor Mr Seamus Hanifin at a Templemore / Thurles, Municipal District Council ‘convocation’, so I understand.

To day is February 5th, 2021, almost two months later and this small piece of roadway still remains an accident waiting to happen.

Alas, further proof that elected, salaried, Thurles Municipal District Councillors are powerless and a complete waste of Tax-Payers money.

Send us a picture if you encounter a larger pot hole.