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Traffic Warden / Lollipop Sought for Scoil Bhride, Sallins Road
At September’s meeting of the Naas Municipal Council I had a motion down which would see a traffic warden or lollipop lady be placed on the Sallins Road, Naas at school times to facilitate crossing of children and parents to the Scoil Bhride back gate. I raised this motion in response to several queries from parents at that school who have to cross the busy Sallins Road to get their children into school. While there is a pedestrian crossing further up the road, most parents use the back gate of the school which cuts the journey time by 10 or 15 minutes and it is understandable with young children that parents would wish to avail of this shorter route. As councillors we need to make this route as safe as possible for parents and their young kids.
Retail Development Programme 2015
The Local Enterprise Office Kildare in conjunction with North Kildare Chamber will be delivering a Retail Development Programme starting in October 2015. The programme would be of interest to independent store owners and managers who are in business in the retail, hospitality and service sector. It is split in to four workshops which will cover sales, marketing, management and customer service amongst many other areas of face-to-face business. The course commences on 13th October and costs €200. For anyone interested, please find out more information here.
DART Underground Must Go Ahead
The DART Underground is the only project that offers the opportunity to provide an underground link between the existing DART line in Dublin and the Western rail line which currently terminates at Heuston station, nearly 3km away from the city centre. The construction of an underground rail link into the city centre will have enormous benefits for commuters in Kildare and beyond. The DART Underground will allow commuters to directly access the city centre without having to change service at Heuston station. It will reduce commuting times, vastly increase rail capacity and will encourage people to use public transport instead of driving into the city.
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Welcome Investment of LPT in Local Roads
On being elected I was determined that funds collected from the local property tax (LPT) must be spent locally and not redirected back to national government. At council level, we have made allocations around the district with significant grants being made to Tidy Towns and residents association groups across the Naas district. The LPT monies are also being targeted at playgrounds in Kill, Sallins and Caragh, undergrounding of cables on Naas main street and support for the Naas-Sallins greenway. I have also brought forward various road projects for attention and tried to get a balance according to geography and where the need was greatest.
Cautious Welcome for Phoenix Park Tunnel
The Phoenix Park tunnel works is a positive step but it is not a panacea. Whilst I will always welcome investment in the railway, the Phoenix Park tunnel is not the holy grail many hold it out to be. It does have the definite benefit of connecting the two major rail routes across the country for the first time in a hundred years. On the flip side it does little to get Kildare line commuters into the south part of the city where most of them want to go. Services using the park tunnel will terminate at Connolly and the journey time is not necessarily better than the current LUAS link option.