Main pic: Joe and Tracey Alexander (centre) with some of their staff members.
Traffic control and roadworks staff don’t tend to get showered with too many compliments these days.
However, one business owner has taken to the internet to pay a glowing tribute to those working on the current Ballybofey and Stranorlar Sewerage Scheme upgrade.
Despite the Stranorlar’s Main Street being dug up, and motorists being diverted up both sides of the River Finn, Tracey Alexander couldn’t be happier with the workers’ professionalism and courtesy.
Tracey, along with her husband Joe, run the long-established Alexander’s of Ballybofey.
She says the Twin Towns have taken a ‘huge battering’ over the last few weeks with roadworks and what seems like an eternity of traffic.
Tracey Alexander. Photo Brian McDaid
“I don’t think there is one business in Ballybofey or Stranorlar that hasn’t been affected,” she began.
“People are so glad to actually get through the town that there is no way they are going to stop on the off chance to go into a shop or stop for lunch. But, once again, the local people are out in numbers braving the one way system and supporting us all – thank you everyone.”
The main reason, she said, for writing the post was to say a huge well done and thank you to all the ground workers involved.
“We couldn’t have done it without you, the guys working on the road traffic management in Stranorlar,” she said.
“Personally, I have been blown away by their expertise, their courtesy to pedestrians and drivers and, mainly, to the attention and care they have shown towards the school children. They will stop everything to get a child, or children, safely across the road and ,as parents, this means so much more than having to wait an extra two minutes in traffic.”
Jennings O’Donovan engineers and Ward and Burke contractors are ‘playing a blinder’, she adds.
“They hope to have us back to two way traffic for the weekend. So well done everyone. Let’s get our two towns ready to rock for the weekend – football, athletics, blessing of the graves – something for everyone this weekend in the Twin Towns.”
The roadworks, and one way system, will be back in place on Tuesday morning.