Lenght of Roads on 31st December, 2002

	Kilometres	Miles
National Primary Roads	147.8	91.9
National Secondary Roads	67.8	42.4
Regional	315.9	196.3
Local Roads	2,532.10	1,573.5
Total	3,062.5	1,904.10

 

Road Design / Construction / Improvement / Maintenance

The total expenditure on roads in the County was €21,601,764 in 2002. An allocation of €10,535,698 was provided by the Department of Environment and Local Government whilst the National Road Authority allocated €11,066,066 towards National Roads.

The major schemes undertaken included:-

• N8 Design - Cullahill/Cashel

• N9 Design - Kilcullen/Waterford

• N24 Design - Mooncoin By-Pass

• N77 Design - Kilkenny Ring Road Extension

• N9 Priority Maintenance

• N10 Paulstown/Kilkenny Pavement Improvement

• N24 Piltown/Fiddown By-Pass

• N25 Waterford/New Ross Pavement Improvement

• N77 New Road Roundabout

• N78 Crettyard Junction and Pavement Improvement

• R693 Threecastles (see image below)

 

 

Community Involvement in the Road Works Scheme

2002 STATISTICS
Total number of roads repaired	28
Total length of roads repaired	11.183kms
Total number of residents who benefited	78
Total expenditure incurred	€ 553,240
Total value of voluntary contributions paid	€ 134,284

 

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.

2002 STATISTICS
Total number of roads repaired	9
Total length of roads repaired	6.125 kms
Total number of beneficiaries	22
Total expenditure incurred	€ 154,027
Number of schemes on hands @ 31/12/2002	69

 

Public Lighting

Total number of lights 4,800

Cost of electricity/maintenance/upgrade €515,611

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 ESB in 1999 to upgrade same and provide infill lighting to be funded over a five year period. The works were completed in May 2000 and will be paid for in full by 31/12/2003.

 

Road Safety

Kilkenny County Council completed 7 Low Cost Remedial Schemes in 2002. The value of these schemes totalled €251,065 - 2 were funded by the NRA on National Roads and 5 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 from the Road Accidents Facts 2001:

No of Accidents per 1,000 Population	1.9	National Average	1.8
No. of Accidents per 1,000 Reg. Vehicles	3.9	National Average	3.9
No. of Accidents per 10 million Veh. Kilometers of Travel	1.6	National Average	1.9

 

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

 

Service Indicators

(€1.50 TO €2.00) per square metre for surface dressing [depending on preparation required].

7.38 of local roads surface dressed per annum.

8.16% of regional roads surface dressed per annum

 

Motor Taxation Statistics 2002

A total of 3449 new vehicles were registered in Co. Kilkenny in 2002 compared with 3654 in 2001 and 5375 in 2000.

The National Vehicle & Driver File system was implemented in Kilkenny Motor Tax as and from the 1st December, 2001. The National Car Test now requires that all cars over four years old qualify to be tested.

Amount Collected	€ 12,778,673
Number of Vehicles Taxed	42,820
New Registrations	3,449
New Registrations (Used Vehicle Imports)	610
Driving Licences	13,396
Trailer Licences	71
Certificate of Roadworthiness	3,555
Annual Discs Issued	29,060
Half Yearly Discs Issued	12,655
Quarterly Discs Issued	29,729

The Unit Costs Per License/Disc issued for 2002 was €6.79.

 

Motor Taxation Service Indicators 2002
Percentage of Motor Tax applications which:

are dealt with over the counter	40 - 50%
are dealt with by post	50 - 60%
are dealt with in other ways (e.g. online, by telephone)	N/A (as yet)

 

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

	Percentage
on the same day	80%
on the third day or less	20%
on the fifth day or less	0%
over five days	0%
Average lenght of time to deal with Driving Licence Applications	1 - 3 days

Transaction Costs (direct) per unit €7.80.

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