NRA and motorway services

Madam, - I am pleased to note that Minister for Transport Martin Cullen has instructed the National Roads Authority to review…

Madam, - I am pleased to note that Minister for Transport Martin Cullen has instructed the National Roads Authority to review its policy of refusing to allow service stations to be built along motorways.

I hope this review will result in a reversal of this cock-eyed policy which seems to be a product of the same mind-set that has left our trunk roads almost totally without properly signposted and properly designated lay-bys. - Yours, etc,

M. D. KENNEDY, Silchester Park, Glenageary, Co Dublin.

Madam, - For once I find myself in complete agreement with Kevin Myers (An Irishman's Diary, June 18th). However, leaving aside the more serious road safety consequences of the decision by the National Roads Authority (NRA) to object to planning applications to build service stations along motorways, surely such a decision runs contrary to two of the main objectives in constructing motorways in the first place: a decrease in traffic through towns and villages; and a reduction in travel time for motorists.

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We are told the NRA will develop a "signage policy" for motorists. I fear it already has, and the sign involves two raised fingers. - Yours, etc,

RONAN HAYES, Yale School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.