I ask the Director of Services, Infrastructure to ensure that the excessive and inappropriately large road signage within the village of Drumsna be removed.  

REPLY:-At present the NRA are carrying out a National Network Re-signing project on all National routes and are currently working on the N4 in Leitrim. The aim of this signage scheme is to standardize direction signage across the county, in response to legitimate criticism of substandard and inconsistent road signage in different counties. As part of this project the signs in Drumsna to and from the National road are being revised. These revisions will have the effect of reducing the size of the largest sign face on the Green area in the village from 8.58 sq. mts. to 3.3 sq. mts. A list of all of the proposed Sign changes in the village, which indicates the sizes of the proposed and the existing sign faces, and also included is a layout map showing their location can be made available to the Councillor.  

Response by Cllr Sinead Guckian to the reply ; Having looked at the proposed New plan of additional N4 signage for Drumsna, it is evident to me that this is excessive, inappropriate and a waste of tax payers money. The real "inconsistency" here is the fact that no other N4 adjacent village has the same excessive amount of signs.

Less  than 24 months ago, the Council introduced a number of additional new N4 signs in the fair green area of Drumsna, at this time I questioned this action, as previously the Drumsna Development Association, the tidy towns committee within the village, had already requested the Council to remove the excessive N4 signage on Fairgreen. This had been highlighted as inappropriate in Tidy towns reports.  While it can take up to two years to get a finger board sign indicating the direction to "Effernagh", "Eslin" or "Keshcarrigan" and that's if there's a budget ! there seems to be no limit to the funds or the speed to which you can have signs saying "N4", this is not right or acceptable.

The Council proceeded with the"N4" signage 24 months ago, regardless of the objections and now we find that on top of that program of signage, the NRA are introducing even more signs.

The proposed signage, which will all indicate either "N4 Dublin" or "N4 Carrick" is a waste of money and an eye sore in our quant village and an insult to all the voluntary members of our community who work so hard to make  Drumsna an attractive place to live in and visit. The plan for the new NRA signage in Drumsna is extremely excessive and there are not as many signs on the new M4 \M50 Junction at Dublin. Drumsna is not a large motor way junction or a large roundabout, it is a village and no other village in Leitrim along the N4 has as many N4 signs as Drumsna currently has, never mind how many are now proposed.

I am calling on the support of the members in having this plan of signage revisited with a view to reducing the amounts to be erected and removing the large 8mtsq sign on fairgreen. I also look for the support of the members in calling on the NRA to make better use of their budget and to provide public lighting on the slip road junctions at Drumsna and Jamestown, as per by my many motions calling for same over the past number of years to no avail. These two junctions off the N4 are the only two villages on this national primary route that do not have public lighting and by providing funding for this lighting they could ensure safer junctions.