Gritting callson additional routes

CALLS have gone out to Louth County Council to have more roads in the county included in the Winter Gritting Programme.

Louth TD Declan Breathnach highlighted a stretch of road from the N53 at Hackballscross to the N52 at Martin’s Cross which he said it is ‘an extremely busy road is excluded from the current gritting programme, and I have been pursuing the Council to include it.’

The Louth TD said that the road used by all forms of traffic, ‘from hauliers from Castleblayney and Kingscourt travelling towards the port of Greenore, to workers in Dundalk and those travelling towards DKIT. It is also used by buses and coaches and I cannot see why the Council won’t grit it.’

I have been calling for an expansion of the gritting service for years with various other busy roads also being left out of the schedule.

During the cold snap I am appealing for people to be extra vigilant on the roads, with the presence of black ice, and also it would be great if people could check in on their elderly neighbours, who are afraid of walking out of their houses in icy weather conditions.