Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps I could come in on this. We talk about low-traffic neighbourhoods in our urban areas but perhaps not enough about low-traffic neighbourhoods in our rural areas. It seems that when every road is driveable and every boreen is a shortcut, then we are going to have significant volumes of traffic on them. The Dutch do quite well and they really disincentivise driving on some of the smaller roads and they push the traffic to the more regional roads. Cyclist.ie had its report this summer on rural cycling, which was very interesting and it touched on this point. If we have a design manual for urban roads and streets which looks at interventions around streets in neighbourhoods to make our towns and villages more liveable, we probably should have a design manual for rural roads and boreens to make them safer and more cycleable, and more walkable as well.