Call for system to stop footpaths and roads 'constantly being dug up'

Councillor Thomas Redmond has called on Kildare Co Council to put a better system in place to stop streets and footpaths 'constantly being dug up'.

The Athy-based Sinn Fein politician is frustrated at different utility providers regularly carrying out works along busy routes and near residential estates.

Cllr Redmond called on the local authority to 'develop a standard whereby utility providers have a fixed time to come and manage works in our county so that new roads and footpaths, to include roads and footpaths in housing estates, are not constantly being dug up as new providers come in."

The public representative will raise the issue at the next meeting of Kildare Co Council in Naas on July 30.

Recycling Centres 

At the same meeting Councillor Mark Stafford will call on the Council to place a small refuse bin at each of its recycling centres/bottle banks to accommodate the soiled receptacles and stray crockery as an alternative to CCTV cameras.