Relief road and crossings planned for Cork town where 10 pedestrians were killed in a decade

Work is progressing on making gridlocked Charleville safer for pedestrians

Main Street, Charleville, Co Cork. File picture: Dan Linehan

Work is progressing on making a gridlocked Co Cork town centre safer for pedestrians, 10 of whom have been killed in little over a decade, while a preferred route for its relief road is likely to be chosen early next year.

Charleville is suffering from extreme traffic jams on most weekdays during rush-hour. In a number of cases over the past decade, heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) passing through its main street have knocked down and killed pedestrians who tried to cross in front of them at points where there were no signalised crossings.