Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion
Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
Ms Swift talked about the council engineer having to drive through every town in the local authority area to monitor it. Why not go the other way? We could look at each town, village and larger urban centre and tweak it with a 3 km radius around it and say it is a 30 km/h zone. Does the RSA think that is a quick approach we could take to this? Put this before the councils and that the councils make the decision. I am not trying to take the decision-making away from the councils. I am looking for a way to do it. Sometimes this can just be stuck in the way that councils are overstretched in many areas and nobody is driving this. Unless I had done up that map and produced it-----
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