Residents in a busy County Waterford village have highlighted the need for urgent road safety measures.
Motorists on the N25 travel directly through Leamybrien - where locals have been campaigning for a traffic calming scheme including a pedestrian crossing.
However, speaking to WLR News in Leamybrien, resident Kevin Lonergan says there have been many setbacks.
"We've been told that Transport Infrastructure Ireland is holding things up. They've had issues sorting things out with local businesses in terms of exits and entrances to allow for traffic calming. While we can appreciate that there are problems like that going on, we don't believe that they should be going on for five or six years without being solved. We're just so afraid of a child getting injured or killed on the road, without a safety crossing."
Traffic calming measures are promised - but there have been a number of delays in commencing work.
Jason Dee from Kilrossanty GAA Club told WLR News that a pedestrian crossing is urgently needed.
"We've no pedestrian crossing", he said. "It's been on the long finger with the past few years and in fairness to the local councillors, they have been asking questions about it but it still hasn't been done and there could be a serious accident here. You see the number of cars passing through, there are lads on bicycles and people are just chancing running across the road and hoping not to get knocked down."
Liz Comyn from the Tidy Towns group explained that residents have faced difficulties in their quest for the implementation of road safety measures.
"We're having a bit of hassle getting it", she conceded. "They keep trying to put it in with traffic calming. We're trying to get it put in for the kids, they're heading to the bus stops in the morning, they're heading up to the GAA Club - people are flying around here in the morning. It really needs to get done."
