Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It can only be a 9 m wide road. I remember speaking to the engineer and asking whether we could reduce it to one lane each. He said that was no problem. All we are doing with that is storing cars. They are not moving, which means there is no space for anything else. It completely killed the cycling capability. Cyclists had to go on the footpath, there was literally no space. What we need to do is reallocate space. It is not anti-car; it is creating a transport system that works. Each time we do it, we do not go back because one finds that transport flows change. What is often being changed is where the congestion is, not where the actual capacity is. Those three roads the Senator knows locally are good examples of where we need to go.

The Minister for Justice launched two new average speed cameras last week. I was very glad, as we do need much more enforcement in promoting road safety. Thankfully, there has been an improvement in the past six months. Any deaths on our roads are still completely unacceptable and the figures are still high relative to two or three years ago but in the past six months, we have started to see the numbers improve somewhat. There were 16 less lives lost this year compared with this time last year. That is not acceptable, we need to go much lower, but the figures are starting to turn. One of the reasons they have started to turn is because we have increased enforcement. Members of the Garda are doing 30 minutes of their duty rosters on road traffic police safety improvements and that is having an impact on public behaviour. Cameras also are a very significant part of that. Not solely the average speed cameras but cameras regarding the enforcement of bus lanes, speed-----