Wider road will still lead to same dead end

YOU report Cllr Michael Gleeson’s claim that some Kerry tourist roads are so poor, some local people no longer change their cars (October 1).

Whether Kerry’s roads are fit for the purpose, and whether Kerry County Council should be subsidising motorists by spending twice as much on roads as it receives in tax (according to its web site), is a matter of opinion. But no one would disagree that money spent on roads should be spent wisely.

For the past five years the county council has been widening five kilometres of the N71 from the tunnels on the Cork border towards Kenmare.