Bridge repairs at Clone on the Freshford Ballyragget road.

The existing double arched bridge had began to collapse and was replaced
with a single box culvert. Works were carried out during summer 2005
while water levels were at their lowest.

 

 

MILEAGE OF ROADS AT 31st DECEMBER, 2005

	Kilometres	Miles
National Primary Roads	147.8	91.9
National Secondary Roads	68.3	42.4
Regional	315.9	196.3
Local Roads	2,532.2	1,573.5
Total	3,064.2	1,904.0

 

ROAD DESIGN / CONSTRUCTION / IMPROVEMENT / MAINTENANCE

The total expenditure on roads in the county was €34,509,610. An allocation of €11.747m was provided by the Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government whilst the National Road Authority allocated €18.476 towards National Roads. The Council allocated €2.415m from their own funds.

The major schemes undertaken included:

• M8/N8 Cullahill/Cashel- Tender process for construction stage commenced.
• N9 Kilcullen/Waterford- CPO confirmed by An Bord Plean á la.
• N77 Kilkenny Ring Road Extension-Construction commenced in June,2005.
• R700 Wallslough-Bennettsbridge-Construction nearing completion at end of 2005..
• Kilkenny Eastern Environs Link Road- Johnswell road to Hebron road stage completed.
• Kilkenny Inner Relief Road- Design ongoing.
• R 705 Graiguenamanagh By-Pass-Tenders for construction received in 2005.
• N77 Bohernatounish Roundabout-Advanced to construction stage.
• N24 Piltown/Fiddown 2+1 Road- Advanced to tender stage and tenders submitted in 2005.
• N24 Mooncoin By Pass - Design ongoing.

DEVELOPMENT CHARGES

Following the Council’s adoption of a new Development Contribution Scheme in 2003 a sum of €2.915m allocated to roads. In accordance with the Council’s Development Contributions Scheme 40% of the Roads budget is allocated at area level, while 60% is allocated at full Council level.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN ROAD WORKS SCHEME

2005 STATISTICS
Total number of roads repaired	23
Total length of roads repaired	14.25
Total number of residents who benefited	87
Total expenditure incurred	€850,868

LOCAL IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES

This scheme refers to non-public roads serving two or more separate agricultural holdings . A local contribution of at least 10% of the cost of improvement works required and the balance is charged to the Local Improvement Scheme grant from DOELG.

2005 STATISTICS
Total number of roads repaired	11
Total length of roads repaired	3.12
Total number of beneficiaries	34
Total expenditure incurred	€ 232,552
Total value of local contributions	€ 31,699

 

PUBLIC LIGHTING

Kilkenny County Council maintains over 6,000 lights.

Cost of electricity / maintenance / upgrade €665,000.

In 1996 a decision was taken to upgrade all public lighting in the county from Mercury to sodium lights and a contract was entered into with the E.S.B. to upgrade same and provide infill lighting to be funded over a five year period. The works were completed in May 2000. In 2004 Kilkenny County Council agreed to a four year programme for public lighting.

ROADS- SERVICE INDICATORS

• Area of local and regional surfaced dressed: 675,561 sqm.
• % local and regional surface dressed: 5.12%
  

MOTOR TAXATION STATISTICS 2005

Amount Collected	14,445,092
Number of Vehicles Taxed	39,882
Driving Licences	11,954
Trailer Licences	106
Certificate of Roadworthiness	5,352
Annual Discs Issued	26,866
Half Yearly Discs Issued	11,556
Quarterly Discs Issued	28,963

Motor Taxation Service Indicators 2005

Percentage of Motor Tax applications which

• are dealt with over the counter 85%
• are dealt with by post 15%
• are dealt with in other ways (e.g. online, by telephone) -

Percentage of overall postal applications which are dealt with (i.e. disc issued) from receipt of the application:

	Percentage	Number
on the same day	43%	5,006
on the third day or less	25%	2,997
on the fifth day or less	8%	926
over five days	24%	2,820

opening houses: 9.30 am . to 4.00 pm
Monday to Friday
(including lunch time opening) 32.5 hours