A Killarney bus driver has suggested a simple measure that he believes could ease one of the town’s ongoing traffic problems.

He claims that cars parked outside the Friary, at the roundabout linking Upper College Street and East Avenue, are causing significant tailbacks stretching back as far as Lewis Road and Rock Road.
According to the driver, when vehicles attempt to turn right onto East Avenue and the pedestrian lights at the rear entrance to the Outlet Centre turn red, buses and cars heading straight on towards Lower Park Road are blocked. He says the parked cars effectively make the filter lane redundant, leading to gridlock.
With up to ten buses an hour passing through the junction between Local Link, Bus Éireann, and the new Anseo service, he argues that the issue needs to be addressed urgently. He warned that the Anseo service will be undermined if buses cannot access the station at the upper end of the Outlet Centre efficiently.
He has suggested that removing the parked cars or installing bollards to prevent parking would allow traffic to flow more freely and resolve what he describes as one of the key choke points in the town.