LTTA submission to litter tripartite committee
LTTA submitted a document on road cleansing effort in Kildare to the litter tripartite committee. Please click below to review the document that was submitted at the July meeting.
- In the last three IBAL surveys (2006 & 7) a Kildare town has come last of 50 towns;
- In the last three IBAL surveys (2006 & 7) Leixlip has risen from last (52nd) to 47th to 37th;
- In the 2006 national, tidy-town competition Kildare town came joint-last of 69 towns with 5,000 or more population;
- In the 2006 national, tidy-town competition, when a fair comparison is made between the aggregate results for all the counties, Co Kildare comes second last to Westmeath;
- Road cleansing effort plays ‘second fiddle’ to road construction, tho’ litter creation is chronic;
- Road cleansing in Leixlip covers little more than the Main Street/ Station Road; Captain’s Hill, with over 10,000 vehicles per day is not cleansed regularly if at all;
- The productivity of the sole, manual, street-cleaning operative could be greatly enhanced if he were equipped with a machine and had a fall-back person when on leave;
- Only between 2002 and 2003 has there been a substantial increase in KCC’s road cleansing budget; when population and wage growth are considered, the spending effort is falling in recent years;
- The County Council’s spending on road cleansing is barely 1 percent of its current budget for 2007;
- The County Council’s Draft Litter Management Plan for 2007 is not a plan at all within the usually meaning of the word in respect of street cleansing.
NB: Rest of County Kildare means the county minus Athy and Naas which have their own cleansing staff.
Leixlip Tidy Town Association,
July, 2007