Residents angry over NRA plans to close slip road

NO sooner have the residents of the Clashmore and Piltown areas of county Waterford emerged victorious from one battle with the National Roads Authority (NRA) when they find themselves angrily embroiled in another.

People power prevailed when the residents persuaded the NRA that a vehicular underpass at Piltown Cross should be an integral part of the multi-million euro realignment of a stretch of the main N25 route.

Initially the underpass was declared a “non-runner’ by the NRA before the persistence of the local community carried the day.