“Fill the potholes or face the taxpayer,” was the dire message delivered to Wexford Borough council by Sinn Féin’s Anthony Kelly last week. Cllr Kelly had his motion calling for the immediate repair of county Wexford’s crippled road network passed at the monthly meeting of the Borough council.
“Everyone knows that County Wexford’s local authorities are cash strapped. It’s an obvious effect of the economic climate in which we live,” Cllr Kelly said, shortly after the meeting had ended. “Families across this county are cash strapped too, but they still find the money to pay their road tax. It’s a disgrace that they have to drive on roads that resemble the face of the moon and pay for the privilege.”
Cllr Kelly, County Wexford’s Sinn Féin candidate in the next general election, went on to say that he had received phone calls and emails from across the county, begging him to do something to deal with the pothole plague. “From Ross to Gorey, it’s the same old story – potholes, burst tyres, damaged cars and more bills for the ordinary Joe soap. One of the things that I will be campaigning for in the upcoming election will be the creation of a special fund to improve roads damaged by our recent hard winters.”
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