Second Laois bog road near Portlaoise 'subsiding' and damaging cars
Laois bog road between Portlaoise and Mountmellick subsided says Cllr Paddy Buggy
With the main Portlaoise to Mountmellick N80 is still awaiting emergency repairs this November, a nearby road also built on bog has also failed, and is damaging cars going over it.
Cllr Paddy Buggy tabled a motion about a 100m section of a road in Kyletalesha, to a recent meeting of Portlaoise Municipal District.
He noted that as with his other motion at the meeting about the N80 nearby, it is due to the dry summer.
“This is Kyle Lane, it’s down the road from where I live and a good few of the residents have been onto me.
“Some cars are getting damaged because the side of the road has pushed away or subsided. It’s a wet piece of ground there so it is partly due to the dry summer, with the land drying out and the road going down,” he said.
In response, Laois County Council’s Portlaoise MD officials will examine the L6166 and carry out repairs as appropriate.
Cllr Buggy had also tabled a motion about the cracks running along the N80 Portlaoise to Mountmellick road, at the same meeting.
Laois County Council said in mid October that they will do the N80 repairs “within the coming weeks”, after getting emergency funding from Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) which is responsible for national roads.
The new cracks on the busy narrow road were highlighted by the Leinster Express / Laois Live in October, with our photographs showing long cracks along the edge and the centre of the road, near the Kyletalesha recycling centre junction.
Director of Services Simon Walton confirmed that the section of road had “failed”.
“Obviously it was the extremely dry summer. It’s not the first road that has failed in a localised area, having regard to the bog foundation.
“The important thing is we engaged promptly with the TII and they agreed that remediation works be carried out. Arrangement are in hand to have those works completed in coming weeks,” the council director said.