asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health if he is aware that (1) Windsor Avenue, Fairview (which avenue is only fifteen feet wide), hitherto a select residential cul de sac enjoying for an unbroken period of over forty years a right of one way traffic only, has been turned into an ordinary through two-way thoroughfare for heavy vehicular traffic, by the removal of a wall at the Croydon Park end; (2) that as a result of such increase of traffic serious damage to property has accrued, the walls of some houses have been cracked and fissured, and others have begun to sink; (3) that an appeal to the City Commissioners resulting in the erection of a signpost inscribed "no heavy traffic," has not had the desired effect, and whether he will state (a) by what statutory authority the wall has been removed; (b) if the present two-way vehicular traffic is to be permanently maintained, and (c) if not, will the wall be restored to its original position, or what action will be taken to prevent this traffic.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - TRAFFIC ON AVENUE AT FAIRVIEW.
In connection with the recent Housing Scheme of the Dublin Borough Commissioners at Croydon Park, the avenue referred to by the Deputy has been extended, and for this reason the wall at the end of the original avenue was removed. The traffic in Windsor Avenue was not at any time a one-way traffic, the avenue having been a cul de sac.
I am not aware that serious damage has been done to property in Windsor Avenue by the opening up of this thoroughfare, but I understand that the City Commissioners, with the cooperation of the Gárda Síochána, have taken steps to prevent heavy vehicular traffic in Windsor Avenue. Most of the heavy vehicular traffic in this district was due to the activities of the various building contractors on the housing scheme, but these have now practically ceased.
The wall referred to by the Deputy was removed by the Commissioners in exercise of their powers under the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts, the Dublin Improvements Acts and the Public Health Acts. The Commissioners propose to continue to allow two-way traffic on the avenue.