There is a need to address lethal conditions for school children in a Dublin suburb as motorists speed through the area with schools and make turns across red lights with little regard for children crossing the road, two Dublin City councillors have said.Cllr Carolyn Moore (Green Party) said there was a request for a site visit with councillors, officials and parents from Harolds Cross Educate Together National School to look at safety measures for children walking and cycling to the school.She said: The school was always going to be a tricky one for a school zone because its in a 50km/h zone, but the school doesnt actually allow drop-offs by car. So, every single child accessing that school is arriving by bike, on a scooter or on foot.At the South East Area committee meeting earlier this month, she called for a holistic approach to looking at the routes children use to the school, including looking at the need for School Traffic Wardens, safer crossings, and other traffic calming.Cllr Moore said near the school that the Mount Jerome junction is notorious in the mornings for cars, not actually observing the red light. Cars continue through that crossing while children are trying to cross.She said that another crossing beside the park is also promised in the councils programme of works for this year, and is welcomed, but questioned whether there will still be an issue of motorists turning right onto Harolds Cross Road and not necessarily seeing that the lights were red.The crossing at the south-east corner of Harolds Cross Park also featured in a Dublin Inquirer article covering red light running across the city (this article was planned since the council meeting earlier this month, but they published it first).Cllr Fiona Connelly (Labour) said: Im really glad that Cllr Moore has already raised some of these issues. I want to talk about the safety for how to get to Harolds Cross Educated Together school as well. Im actually biased in that regard because I walk that way with my own children every morning, and it is lethal.I think that looking at the whole journey that children have to take along the Harolds Cross Road or coming across from Mount Argus [Road], is really important, she said.She also asked for an update on proposed crossings at the Harolds Cross Road and Leinster Road junction, where theres currently a signalled T-junction but no pedestrian crossings (pictured above).People are breaking the right turn when they come across from the park; they turn right and go through the pedestrian crossing. So it is really, really dangerous, said Cllr Connelly. Is a 50km/h road, and people are very urgent in the morning, and people are breaking the lights. So I think we really need to take the requests of the parents associations really seriously.IMAGE: The turn at the south-east corner of the park, where motorists are turning right across red lights.She said that they have been asking for a site visit since around a year ago, but it has yet to happen, and she wants to see it happen to show how difficult the school run is every morning, adding: But I can verify the difficulties that parents go through because I am one of them.Colm Ennis, a senior executive engineer with Dublin City Councils Transport Advisory Group, said that they have been hoping to run a site visit since Christmas, but that theres been a couple of staff out over a long period so that has made it harder to make progress. But that officials would meet with parents on site.Of the new crossings promised, he said hes not sure when theyll be installed. But itll probably be towards the end of the year.At the meeting with officials, councillors and parents, Cllr Moore added: Just to emphasise, we cant let another school year go by and not be able to do it then during the summer, and she also asked for the new crossing to be installed before the new school year too.TIPS WELCOME:Were aware that IrishCycle.com covers Dublin City South East Area committee meetings a lot there are a number of reasons for this, including the committee meetings being more focused on traffic issues than other areas, and it being an area of the city centre which residents from many areas use to get to work or elsewhere. Often, when a meeting is watched for one issue, other public-interest issues relevant to readers are covered as well. If there are other area committee meetings with issues of interest, please send a link. If there are other issues around the country that you want IrishCycle.com to cover,please get in touch.