Across the city, parents snatch their kids out of the way of red-light-breaking drivers
Despite years of talk, a promised national strategy on red-light cameras is yet to be published – let alone implemented.
Despite years of talk, a promised national strategy on red-light cameras is yet to be published – let alone implemented.
The council says it wants to hear from you.
The council is now over 18 months late in meeting a legal deadline to publish a digital map of speed limits on city streets.
Since 2022, there have been 332 appeals lodged with councils nationwide, according to a Department of Transport spokesperson.
“It's no exaggeration. I've had at least 20 different people coming to me with this issue,” Councillor Angela Donnelly said.
At a meeting of Dublin City Council’s transport committee on Wednesday, councillors and council managers expressed frustration with the long road ahead.
Requests for a school warden were previously turned down because it was considered too dangerous, said a councillor. In recent times, two other schools have been told the same.
It’s meant to control traffic leaving the Whitehall Colmcille GAA clubhouse car park, across a footpath, onto the road.
“It was subsequently recognised that this would be difficult to achieve … ,” says a Department of Transport spokesperson.
“Private interests are still in control of vast tracts of what should be publicly controlled land, publicly run in the interest of the people.”
The pavement outside Stapolin Educate Together hasn’t yet been taken in charge by Fingal County Council.
Councillors had wanted to talk, among other things, about progress on sharing key data that they say the council needs to make roads safer.