Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

General Scheme of the Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Minister for Transport

Photo of Gerry HorkanGerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. Both the Minister and I cycle, and more and more often I see people run red lights. It is not just orange lights but red ones too, where the lights for the other traffic have turned green and they still come through. Clearly, that is a problem if they hit a car. It will be a bigger problem if they hit a cyclist. Are there any proposals for cameras to monitor this? Whatever about running orange lights, which is bad enough, people blatantly run red lights after the lights for the other side of the junction have gone green. I saw it twice on the way in on my bike today, and I see it all the time at certain junctions, some of which the Minister would use cycling to and from Leinster House. Are there any proposals to tackle that? I accept the Chairman wanting to know that cyclists are behaving well, but a car can do an awful lot more damage if it is not behaving than a bicycle will ever do, and that is not for a moment to excuse cyclists-----

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