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Road quality entitlements?

  • 15-03-2008 2:17pm
    #1
    The Phantom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭


    Hi. I am trying to find out if you are legally entitled to a certain quality of road in Ireland.

    I am also planning to find out how much money was paid in road tax over the last 5 years say, and compare it to the amount spent on the roads because here in tipp the raods are a state. I dont see why I have to pay so much road tax when the last time the road I live on was resurfaced was over 20 years ago (fact). Also I had to pay the council 4000 euro in fees and for what?? a scatter of loose chipings into the many potholes once a year? Its rediculous.

    Am I entitled to the information and where can I get it.

    Many thanks for your replies.


Comments

  • #2
    Spyral
    Closed Accounts Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Spyral


    it wont do you any good -- no one is responsable for anything in ireland


  • #3
    The Phantom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭The Phantom


    Ha ha. So true.


  • #4
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭SeanW


    Road maintenance is the responsibity of your Local Authority. Looks like yours is doing a piss-poor job!


  • #5
    meathstevie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,777 ✭✭✭meathstevie


    Local authority --> county manager --> minister for the Environment and Local Government. Given the culture of taking ownership of problems in this government indeed : NOBODY

    No doubt there's EU standards set down for different types of roadsurfaces etc but the simple way out is : it's a matter of ongoing maintenance and improvement works.

    Take the example of throwing loads of loose chippings on road surfaces as a so called repair directly causing thousands of Euro of damage to privately owned vehicles, where would you get away with it ? Not in a town with a directly elected mayor and council with whom the buck stops like they have on the continent. With a county manager who's in all but theory accountable to nobody it clearly is a different story.


  • #6
    Jim_Are_Great
    Closed Accounts Posts: 652 ✭✭✭Jim_Are_Great


    If you're talking about taking a case, wouldn't you have to adduce evidence of some form of material damage due to the disrepair of the roads? To constitute standing and all that.


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  • #7
    cyclopath2001
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭cyclopath2001


    The Phantom wrote: »
    Hi. I am trying to find out if you are legally entitled to a certain quality of road in Ireland.
    No. A council is only liable for a faulty repair.
    The Phantom wrote: »
    I am also planning to find out how much money was paid in road tax over the last 5 years say, and compare .
    Zero. We don't have road tax in Ireland. There is Motor Tax, VAT and VRT.


  • #8
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Moved from Politics.


  • #9
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    i think tis all relative....you have to help pay fro all the roads you use not just YOUR bit outside your house...

    Having said that I can never understand why the bit of the N72 in Cork is a LOT worse than the N72 in Waterford, when the NRA pay for the upkeep of both....

    The newly rebuilt section west of Mallow near Longueville House is a disgrace and the County Engineer should hang his head in shame...


  • #10
    orbital83
    Registered Users Posts: 210 ✭✭orbital83


    The NRA have to ensure there is an alternative route available when they introduce a new toll road. I was pretty sure there was a condition that this road must be maintained to a certain standard... but can find nothing on the net.
    I'm thinking specifically of the R148 (bypassed N4 Dublin-Sligo), which is rapidly deteriorating in Co Meath at the moment.


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