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Safe Streets plan now faces county wide challenge
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Sean Moriarty
The town’s Safe Streets programme is set to face a second challenge tomorrow (Monday).
Last week, the Killarney Advertiser was the first local media outlet to reveal that Cllr Donal Grady was seeking legal advice on the Safe Streets programme.
Grady believes that the programme, which involves the widening of footpaths in the town centre and the closure of Plunkett St and Kenmare Place to traffic, is Kerry County Council’s covert way of introducing pedestrianisation to the town centre without proper consultation with elected members, the public and town centre businesses.
The Council argues that the plan is in place to allow social distancing in the centre as the county continues to battle COVID-19.
At last week’s Killarney Municipal District meeting several other elected councillors expressed their anger at the way the plan has been executed and the way Kerry County Council has communicated changes to the plan.
Cllr Jackie Healy-Rae, who is elected in the Castleisland Municipal District, is set to challenge the Safe Streets plan in every town in the county at tomorrow’s meeting of Kerry County Council’s executive and elected members.
He will ask: “How much has the Town Centre Mobility Plans cost Kerry County Council to date. How much of this was funded by Kerry County Council's own resources and how much was drawn down in grants. Can a breakdown of the cost be given per Municipal District and a breakdown given on what the money was spent on, listing all materials and their quantities i.e. bollards, machinery, labour costs, and anything else. Can this be given per Municipal District also. Please include any funding paid to outside contractors for the purpose of the Town Centre Mobility Plan.”
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