One-way street in Newbridge is driving away customers

Cutlery Road beside the Whitewater Shopping Centre should be reopened as a two-way street, according to Cllr Mark Lynch.

Cllr Lynch said that businesses have lost trade since the route was made one-way.

The Sinn Fein politician called for Kildare Co Council to make the top portion of Cutlery Road (Athgarvan Road/Water Tower end), open to traffic in both directions as opposed to

the current one way system.

He said; "Businesses were detrimentally affected since the closure of the top of the street several years ago and the current system means customers are no longer entering these businesses with ease."

Cllr Lynch added that many of these companies have large trucks and vans entering their premises which are being forced down Cutlery Road onto the Main Street causing further traffic disruption in the area.

The public representative will raise the issue at the next meeting of the Kildare-Newbridge Municipal District on May 17.