Jen Cummins (Dublin South Central, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I congratulate the Minister of State on his appointment. Road safety is a major issue for communities in Dublin South-Central. The Calm Crumlin Road group has been campaigning and collecting data for a number of years. I wish to outline some of those data for the House. There is a straight stretch of road where there is a primary school, a secondary school and two sports clubs, one for football and one for camogie and hurling. Forty per cent of the population do not have cars and rely on public transport and active travel. This is a 50 km/h zone. The group calculated that of the 800 cyclists, 6,500 cars and 2,500 large vehicles using the road each day, 10% of the cars are speeding. Since it started collecting those data, 1 million vehicles have been travelling at more than 50km/h. There has been one death and numerous near misses. The community welcomes the reduction of speed limits on rural roads and looks forward very much to having the reduced speed on city roads as well.

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