Duleek HGV ban call made - in 1984!

September 1984

THE non stop battery of heavy lorries which thunders daily through Duleek is worrying villagers particularly the elderly and parents of young children.

“Everything from articulated trucks to huge bulk oil carriers bulk milk carriers bulk concrete carriers — anything you can think of is now driving through Duleek,” said Mrs. Margaret Johnston, Mill Hill.

The noise was appalling she said but that was the least part of it. It was the danger of cyclists, old people and children, villagers were most concerned about.

And the trucks don’t go through slowly they go through at 30 m.p.h. easily and sometimes more quickly.”

She herself suffered from arthritis and walked with the help of a stick. She was fearful crossing the road because of the trucks.

Duleek she said was not suitable for such heavy traffic and she feared there would be a serious accident resulting from it.

It was only in the last six months that the village has been subjectd to this traffic. Mrs. Johnston thinks it is because drivers are using Duleek as a shortcut on their route between Drogheda and Navan — ‘If you notice there are very few big trucks now on the main road to Navan.”

She added that the trucks should adhere to the main road and keep out of Duleek.