Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Ms Moyagh Murdock:

I would definitely agree that the people in the community are best placed to decide what is appropriate. If it is around a school area, then obviously it is a high risk area. Employers already do it - they have 5 km/h or 10 km/h zones within their own workplaces. The local community in tandem with the local authority are best placed to decide if a 20 km/h speed limit zone is the most appropriate in a particular area. We would certainly like to see an increase in the number of 30 km/h zones as a starting point, as well as looking at what we can do with infrastructure, signage, ramps, information and promotion to raise awareness of the risk to vulnerable road users in the area.

I think Mr. Naughton wanted to make a comment.

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