No money for motorway service stations

Pic courtesy of Daily Mail

THINKING OF touring Ireland on your bike? Better make sure you're fully fuelled in every sense, as one of the country's major motorways lacks any form of service station, due to a lack of Government funds.

Citing a lack of money for the reason no new services will be built along the 155-mile stretch that connects Dublin and Cork, the National Roads Authority (NRA) is now putting up the signs warning of no 'online' services ahead, and instead directing motorists to petrol stations in nearby towns.

Plans for four service stations along the 155-mile stretch have been shelved due to a lack of funding.

'It's as important to let people know what's there as what is not there,' a spokesman for the NRA told the Irish Independent newspaper.

The AA motoring group has branded the situation 'unacceptable'.

Conor Faughnan, AA director of policy, told RTE radio: 'It's a pretty poor half measure in all honesty, it does rather devalue the motorway network.

'I guess sign of the times; they are pleading that they simply don't have the money.'