The Love30 campaign made a submission to Dublin City Council Special Speed Limit Bye-Laws Review 2019

Love30 commends Dublin City Council for its proposal to extend 30 km/h speed limits to all residential areas, especially as this can be seen to give a lead to Local Authorities throughout the State, but we are disappointed that there are no proposals to reduce 50 and 60 km/h speed limit on arterial roads or to increase the number of periodic 30 km/h limits outside schools.

The main points of the submission are:

• Love30 welcomes the expansion of 30 km/h speed limits to all residential areas in Dublin City
• Love30 is disappointed, however, not to see any proposals to reduce speed limits on distributor/arterial roads.
• Love30 regrets the failure to increase the low number of periodic speed limits outside schools
• Love30 recommends a heightened and continuous publicity campaign to drive home the message of lower speeds and a safer city
• Love30 recommends a variety of speed reducing mechanisms be trialled to support compliance with the new limits.
• Love30 requests the Garda to carry out occasional speed checks in the designated lower speed zones, and compile reports on the results of the checks.
• Love30 requests that the collection and compilation of all collision records be systemised for the Dublin City area to support the validation of the lower speed limit zones.

The full submission is attached below.