Council Examining Feasibility Of Street Lighting On Notorious Ennis Bridge

It was on foot of two young lads, 12 or 13 years of age,

that approached me and asked me about it.

They live in the locality, and they're sacramed,

and they go over and back to these roads,

going over is usually fine, but coming home,

they find they can be dark.

And also they spoke about the fact that there's a stretch

you're around there with no footpath on it.

So it is quite dangerous for them,

and the living has a certain locality.

So I said to them that I certainly were bringing it forward.

I knew it would be tied in with life.

You know, that's got to be huge area, funding for that area.

When that project gets up and running,

so a lot of issues that we've been dealing with there

will be dealt with then, but it was just to show them

how the democratic process works also to ask the question,

because it has been asked in a while,

about because that bridge is quite dark.

And I was hoping to be some kind of alternative,

maybe like a solar light or something there,

even for that early part of the evening.

So I will chase up now with Tom, our new engineer,

and see if we can do something that will be an interim type

solution until such a time as that I have project gets underway.

Do you think if something isn't done,

it's an excellent way to happen?

It's an area that I've been talking about for many, many years.

Usually from when I got elected,

because I remember coming home late one evening,

and our school uniform is all dark.

And it was a winter's evening, and it was probably about half

as five, and as come over the bridge,

and next thing there was three students walking home

or from to me, on if I was going slow,

it could have been a completely different scenario.

So I'm really conscious of that space.

I know whom we got the finance, the time to rehabilitate

the bridge, that was a finite amount of money

to be spent on that project.

And we couldn't get the cantilevered footbridge

as I had looked for at the time at the side of it.

So it's something that I've been on about,

and certainly our new councillors here have been talking about,

and just love to get a resolution there,

because the fact it is on the way to these roads,

which is a hugely, hugely popular facility

that I'd love to see, and a couple of things there have been done.

And do you think full purchase in the car is maybe in the future?

I would love to see, it is huge expense of it,

but I think when you weigh that up against somebody,

you've been able to traverse that bridge safely.

I think the car shouldn't comment up

but we have to find that money, and it's a lot of money.

So in every year, it goes up because everything is more and more expensive.

But certainly I would love to see that happening.

I really truly would.

So watch this space and we'll see,

you know, as the July have project starts,

I think that we'd be able to public access more funding.