Council dashes hopes of residents for HGV ban through their areas

Kildare Co Council said there should be no HGV ban on roads in the Eadestown and Rathmore areas near Naas as it could affect local businesses.

A delegation of residents came to a Naas Municipal District meeting last year urgently calling for the restriction to help reduce lorries driving through their areas.

However the Council responded that there wasn't any funding to carry out a traffic survey of the villages to calculate the exact amount of vehicles using the routes.

And a Council spokesperson said: "It is recommended that there should be no HGV ban on the public roads in Eadestown and Rathmore as this could lead to increased HGV traffic volumes on other adjacent local roads and could affect local rural businesses which depend on HGV deliveries."