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Denny Street.
MEMBERS of Save Tralee are growing increasingly frustrated with county councillors whom, the group feel, are not taking on their recommendations to proposed work that will remove 66 car spaces in Denny Street and The Mall.
After the first Save Tralee meeting last week, it was recommended to the group that they to produce a survey of shops and businesses in town.
The handwritten survey of the 105 shops presented to Kerry County Council found that 93% of businesses said they were not personally surveyed by KCC in relation to the plan.
Speaking to Traleetoday.ie a frustrated member of Save Tralee who met with councillors to hand over the survey has told us that; “They couldn’t be sure they [the results] were genuine. They were calling them into question so that was very upsetting,” they said.
As concern grows among traders, a second meeting has been scheduled to takes place in the Grand Hotel, on Thursday at 6:15pm.
Save Tralee was formed in response to changes to the town centre that will see 66 car spaces removed from Denny Street and The Mall as part of a €2.2 million ‘Smarter Travel Scheme’ grant from the goverment.
In the Grand Hotel last week, traders and the public voiced their concerns on a number of issues including, parking, disabled parking, time of works and the adverse effect it will have on businesses in the The Mall and Denny Street.
I feel Members of Save Tralee are very wrong about this as the grant funding may be missed and gone forever. All for a mere 66 parking spaces?
Tralee town centre has lost the atmosphere and the current system is to blame as far as I am concerned.
The fact of the matter is that paid parking is loss making all over the country.
If the town had free parking like in manor west retail park there would be way more incentive for people to go to the town centre. The county council would even have more extra revenue from not having to pay for the loss making parking metres?
I would probably prefer to free park, walk a little further and to take a stroll around a pedestrian friendly town centre – the traders should be looking at Henry street or Grafton Street in Dublin as the type of model for the town centre to compete with the modern retail parks.