More money for disability works

Another €500,000 has been allocated to Kildare County Council under a pilot programmes for making streets in towns throughout the county more user friendly to people with disability.

The recent work on the junction at the traffic lights, and improvements along by Scoil Bhride, came about from a previous similar allocation, and following an access audit walkabout organised by Action South Kildare involving people with disabilities and staff from Kildare County Council's Roads Department.

There is now an opportunity to have the disability-friendly work continued down the Main Street as far as the recently-refurbished bridge, if representations are made quickly by interested parties in Kilcullen.

The operative word is 'quickly' because there will be increased demands on this latest allocation from other communities who have seen what can be accomplished as a result of the Kilcullen work.

The resulting report from the access walkabout is online here.

Brian Byrne.