Category Archives: Sallins

Clamping Relief for Sallins Commuters

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Have you read the small print?

If you were parking at Sallins train station over the past fortnight you may have been in for a nasty new year’s surprise if you came back to find your car clamped on your first day back. It turns out NCPS car parks who operate the Naas side station car park, increased the fees from one to two euro daily over the break but forgot to let people know about it. Not only did they not give adequate notice of the price increase, they then began to clamp people who hadn’t observed it!

It seems a few labels were placed on the parking meters but people who had being used to paying the previous fare for the past two years and who are typically parking in early morning and running to catch their train, not surprisingly, had not stopped to notice the changes in small print on the machine they had been using daily for the past two years.

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Service Cutoff to 85 Kildare Estates – No Exemption on Household Charge

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Lights Out – But the Council still want your money for the HHC

Minister Brian Hayes said on The Week in Politics today, 25th November, that a full Property Tax would be introduced in the new year “to fund local services for communities”. Well the Government and every Council around the country better make sure they are actually providing services where they propose to levy the charge or risk the wrath of residents.

I have uncovered figures pointing to a shocking disconnect between public services provided by Kildare County Council and those estates exempted from the household charge.

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Access Concerns on New Childrens’ Hospital

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Fianna Fáil’s Naas Area Representative, James Lawless, has expressed concern over the government’s choice of site for the childrens’ hospital and has expressed reservations on the city centre location chosen in Dublin 8.

“A great many people from the Naas Area and across North Kildare will have had occasion to visit Tallaght hospital with their children and most will have found it accessible, clean, efficient and convenient” said James.

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First Impressions on Local Government Reforms

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So Big Phil finally published his ‘opus magnus’ yesterday with all the detail on local government reforms including abolition of town councils, levelling of councillor ratios across the country and creation of much bigger wards in Dublin and the commuter belt.

Still trying to digest it all (it’s a big document!) but my first impressions are as follows:

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Good News Maybe on Horizon for Osberstown Junction

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The vexed junction at Osberstown in Sallins may finally be in for some good news as James Lawless, local Fianna Fáil representative, has been advised by the National Transport Authority that a survey recently commissioned will report shortly with a verdict.

“The issue has dragged on for years” said James “The junction is patently dangerous and there has been a number of near misses and actual collisions there already. It is only good luck to date that no one has yet been seriously hurt”. The junction sees traffic from Oldbridge estate, Caragh and surrounding areas exit onto the main Sallins-Naas road and is notorious for a lack of safe exit for right turning traffic.

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