Kildare 'shouldn't have to pay for maintaining some roads within the county'

Kildare County Council should not have to pick up the tab for maintaining some of the roads  within the county.

A call has been made for some routes to be reclassified because of the amounts of traffic they carry.

Social Democrats councillor Peter Melrose wants Kildare County Council to come up with a report - which includes traffic counts and traffic volume types.

He says this should be used to seek a redesignation of sections of three regional routes in the Celbridge, Maynooth and Kilcock areas.

The roads are located between the M4 and the M7 and Cllr Melrose says a reclassification of these to national secondary routes is required because they are carrying “significant share of national traffic.”

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At the moment, the maintenance of the roads is the responsibility of  KCC as opposed to Transport Infrastructure Ireland. 

“These roads are therefore functioning as national secondary routes and should be designated accordingly,” says Cllr Melrose.

TII is responsible for the planning, maintenance and improvement of the approximately 5,500 kilometres of national road network, which includes all national primary roads, national secondary roads, motorways and dual carriageways.