Lenght of Roads on 31st December, 2004

	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

note - same as 2007/2006/2005

 

Road Design / Construction / Improvement / Maintenance

The total expenditure on roads in the county was € 29,961,351. An allocation of € 10,922m was provided by the Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government whilst the National Road Authority allocated € 15.34m towards National Roads. The Council allocated € 2.33m from their own funds.

The major schemes undertaken included:

• N8 Cullahill/Cashel - CPO confirmed by An Bord Pleanála.

• N9 Kilcullen/Waterford - CPO documentation in preparation.

• N77 Kilkenny Ring Road Extension - Tenders for construction received in December.

• R700 Wallslough - Bennettsbridge.

• Kilkenny Eastern Environs Link Road.

• R910 Design - Waterford Road Traffic Management Scheme.

• Design - Kilkenny Inner Relief Road.

• Graiguenamanagh By-Pass - CPO confirmed.

• N9 South of Mullinavat & Mullinavat village.

• N10 Kilkenny to Gowran junction.

• N24 Grannagh to Ballygriffin.

 

Johnswell Road. Under construction. The roundabout is the largest in Kilkenny City.

 

Development Charges

Following the Council's adoption of a new Development Contribution Scheme in 2003 a sum of € 800,000 allocated to roads from this scheme was spent on improving regional and local roads during 2004.

 

Community Involvement in the Road Works Scheme

2004 STATISTICS
Total number of roads repaired	19
Total length of roads repaired	11.056
Total number of residents who benefited	62
Total expenditure incurred	€ 595,399

 

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.

2004 STATISTICS
Total number of roads repaired	7
Total length of roads repaired	2.088
Total number of beneficiaries	36
Total expenditure incurred	€ 165,804
Total value of local contributions	€ 20,807

 

Section of Mullinavat Village Improvement Scheme

 

Public Lighting

Kilkenny County Council maintains over 6,000 lights.

Cost of electricity / maintenance / upgrade € 579,000.

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.

 

Service Indicators

• Area of local and regional surfaced dressed: 918,278 sqm.
• % local and regional surface dressed: 7.0%

 

 (R-L) M. Malone (County Manager), R. Aylward (Cathaoirlach) and M. Mullally (County Secretary) applying the County seal on the M8/N8 CPO Documentation

 

New Road CPOs; (R-L) Michael Malone; Billy Mernagh; Mary Hilda Cavanagh (Cathaoirleach); John McCormack; Anne Delaney

 

Road Safety

Kilkenny County Council completed 9 Low Cost Remedial Schemes in 2004. The value of these schemes totalled € 169,250 - 4 were funded by NRA on National Roads and 3 were on Non National Roads. The works involved improving the road marking, traffic signs and lighting at high accident location sites.

The following are the latest Road Traffic Accidents statistics for Kilkenny for 2003:

No of Accidents per 1,000 Population	1.3	National Average	1.5
No. of Accidents per 1,000 Reg. Vehicles	2.5	National Average	3.1
No. of Accidents per 10 million Veh. Kilometers of Travel	1.1	National Average	1.6

Kilkenny County Council continues to emphasise the importance of safety on our roads by means of education, accident prevention and publicity.
 

 

Motor Taxation Statistics 2004

Amount Collected	14,622,056
Number of Vehicles Taxed	41,243
Driving Licences	12,368
Trailer Licences	62
Certificate of Roadworthiness	4,152
Annual Discs Issued	27,621
Half Yearly Discs Issued	12,174
Quarterly Discs Issued	30,140

 

Motor Taxation Service Indicators 2004
Percentage of Motor Tax applications which:
 

are dealt with over the counter	75%
are dealt with by post	25%
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	78.5%	16,311
on the third day or less	18.0%	3,749
on the fifth day or less	3.1%	616
over five days	0.5%	97

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