Donegal County Council is being pressed to expand its gritting programme beyond the county’s main roads.
An upcoming meeting of the Letterkenny-Milford MD will hear calls for busy secondary roads around the county and footpaths in Letterkenny town centre to be salted during future cold snaps.
Councillor Tómas Seán Devine (100% Redress) has lodged a motion highlighting the danger of secondary roads being untreated.
Some roads, Cllr Devine said, are as busy as national roads with a large number of houses and businesses accessing them.
Cllr Devine’s motion points out the recent alert over the L1064 Mongorry Road from Glenmaquin school through Mongorry which was left impassable last Friday due to ice.
Independent Letterkenny councillor Michael McBride has also submitted a motion to the council for the coming week, requesting that footpaths in Letterkenny be salted or gritted.
“Walking conditions were extremely dangerous on Friday 3rd of January,” said Cllr McBride.
Pedestrians have been reported walking on the roads alongside traffic to avoid slipping on paths.
The issues will be discussed at the next Letterkenny-Milford Municipal District meeting this Tuesday.
Approximately 1,140km of road divided into 21 separate routes are gritted in Donegal. This equates to approximately 18% of the total length of public road in Donegal.
