AN action involving a road haulier and Dublin Corporation concerning plans by the local authority to close a roadway at its junction with the newly opened M50 was settled in the High Court yesterday.
Mr Patrick Hand, Willsboro Clonshaugh Road, Dublin who was not legally represented, was granted an injunction by Mr Justice Barron last Friday preventing the corporation from closing Clonshaugh Road.
Mr Hand, granted the injunction until yesterday, told Mr Justice Barron that his lorries crossed the city twice or three times a day and his business depended on access to the road on which he lived.
Mr Hand said he and his neighbours in Clonshaugh were willing to help the Corporation to close the road at a point where it would not isolate the residents on both sides of the M50, which was opened by the corporation last December.
The corporation had intended to close Clonshaugh Road North and Clonshaugh Road South on foot of a statutory notice published on January 16th.
When the matter came before the President of the High Court, Mr Justice Costello, yesterday Mr Conleth Bradley, counsel for Dublin Corporation, said it planned to close the roadway at an alternative point.
The corporation would now proceed to close the N32 Northern Cross extension between the M1 motorway and the northern part of the Clonshaugh Road.
Mr Bradley said the road was closed only temporarily because of increased traffic volumes and safety considerations and would be reopened in six months.
He then asked the President to strike out the matter.
Mr Hand agreed with the corporation's undertaking and asked for it to be put in writing.
When the corporation later submitted the written undertaking Mr Justice Costello made an order striking out the action.