Roadworks Schemes - 2015
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Objective
To plan for and facilitate the transportation needs of the people residing in and travelling through County Kilkenny by developing and improving infrastructure including the formulation of public transport policy for the City & County.
Introduction
The 2015 Roadworks Scheme was prepared against a continuing background of reduced resources and follows on from substantial changes to the structure of Local Government brought about by the provisions of the Local Government Reform Act 2014.
The Scheme with regard to;
- the changes to electoral and engineering areas
- the overarching need to protect and maintain existing roads assets
- the requirement to maintain roadside drainage systems to a satisfactory operational standard,
- M8 and M9 road maintenance services are now provided by the private sector under contract to the NRA,
- compliance criteria set out in the National Roads Authority and Department of Transport Memoranda on Roads Grants 2014,
- a requirement for all roads projects to be identified, managed and reported through the OTIS Pavement Management System,
- the virtual exhaustion of available development levies, and
- the Increasing length of the public road network throughout County Kilkenny as estates are taken in charge etc. in addition to an increasing inventory of public lights.
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