COUNTY COUNCIL TO REVIEW SPEED LIMITS OF GALWAY ROADS

Date Published: 27-Jul-2010

A review of the speed limits on county roads is to be undertaken by the County Council.

It’s in an effort to reduce the number of road accidents.

At this week’s Council meeting, members raised concerns that speed limits of 50 and 80 kilometres on some minor roads were "totally inappropriate".

Councillors also remarked that accidents were more likely to take place on local roads as opposed to main and national roads in the county.

Director of Services, Frank Gilmore told the meeting that while speed limits were the "maximum speeds in relation to the capacity of the roads", he did agree that such signage may be misleading to motorists.

Councillor Seán Kyne says elective representatives have a duty to reduce speed limits across the county.