ROAD WORKS FOR 2018 DETAILED
DETAILS of Louth County Council’s road works programme for this year were have been circulated to local councillors.
The draft road works programme will see over €8million being spent on roads throughout the county, and increase of 12 per cent over 2017. The budget for national primary routes has been cut by 11 per cent to €136,000 which will be spent on maintenance. There is a 45% increase in expenditure for national secondary roads with €114,798 earmarked for maintenance, while a total of €1,811,237 has been allocated for regional roads, with local roads getting €1,636,292.
Grant specific works totalling €1,838,584 are planned for the Dundalk Municipal District. This will see works being carried out on the Armagh Road, Manydown Close, Avenue Road, Castletown Road, Bachelors Walk, Meadow Grove, Crowe Street, Market Square, Longwalk/Market Square, St Gerard’s Square in Dundalk, Moneycrockroe, Corrakit, Glenmore, Ballygoly, Omeath Village, Benah, Earls’ Quarter, Castletowncooley, Southern Link Road, Balready to Kilcurry, Kilcurry to Marmion’s Cross, Dunmahon Crosss to Ardee Road, Faughart Hill, Belrobin to N53, Belreagan, R1789 to Little Ash, Maghereagh Cross to Belfrobin, Killin, Tateetra, Mullabouy Cross to Carrickcreagh.
Cllr Emma Coffey said that people living on local roads were losing out as they had paid their development levies and Local Property Tax and she was getting numerous representations from people living in rural areas whose cars had been damaged due to the state of the roads. It seemed to her that a pothole in Blackrock is fixed within days but if there’s a pothole on a third class road in Dunleer people could be waiting for a year.
Cllr Antoin Watters complained that there were roads in Cooley which had been done in twenty years.