By Dan Walsh
Wexford County Council has been allocated funding of €23,437,550 for the improvement and maintenance of local and regional roads across Co. Wexford for 2025, almost two months into the year.
The breakdown includes €11,080,500 for restoration improvement, with €1,515,500 for restoration maintenance and €1,326,000 for supplementary restoration maintenance. €3,043,500 will be provided for discretionary grants.
A total of €603,000 will be allocated to bridge rehabilitation. Crossings listed for attention are the Still Pond Bridge, Enniscorthy, Borrmount Bridge, (work is already complete there), Ahare Bridge, Castletown, Oulartleigh Bridge, Annagh Bridge, Dunbrody Bridge, Abbey Bridge Phase 2, Ambrosetown Bridge, Goffsbridge Horetown, Knockahone Bridge, Old Boley Bridge, Templescoby Bridge, Ballycadden Bridge and Peppardscastle Bridge.
€1,005,000 of the €23.4m is set aside for specific improvement works, namely the Deeps Bridge at Killurin at €805,000 and repairs to the embankment on the R733 at Wellingtonbridge at a cost of €200,000.
A total of €398,000 will be provided for safety improvement works. The breakdown of these works is: Main Street and Red Row Riverchapel (€80,000); Arklow Road, Gorey (€120,000); McCurtain Street/Clogh Road, Gorey (€80,000); Junction of Bride Street, St Joseph’s Street and Thomas Street, Wexford town (€20,000), St John’s Road outside the Mercy School in Wexford (€35,000); Templeshannon Quay, Enniscorthy (€36,500); Rathnacknee to Ballynass €13,000; Rathangan to Muchtown (€8,000) and Rathaspeck Junction (€5,500).
Funding of €420,000 has been made available for former national roads and in Wexford will be spent entirely on the old N11, while €19,000 will be allocated to cycle signs and a combined total of €49,200 for speed limit signage.
There are several projects earmarked for funding, difficult to unravel at this time, but no doubt they will surface through the district meetings, and in many cases the work may have been completed, and it is just a matter of honouring the invoice. Will it make much difference to most communities, probably not!
The funding is part of a €658 million package announced nationally last week.
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