>Metric speed changeover accelerates as deadline is set for December > >Irish Independent >Thursday September 2nd 2004
Since I don't get the Independent, I never saw this. It is quite possible that they are planning to do this by December 1st. They told me their target was by "end of November". but they cannot make a formal announcement until the legislation is passed (the legislature resumes next week). >Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Co Council has told Transport Minister Seamus >Brennan and the National Roads Authority (NRA) it will not increase the >controversial 40mph speed limit on the Stillorgan dual-carriageway at >RTE. This is because the council has serious safety concerns about such >a move and wants to keep the existing limit, it wsa learned yesterday. >The minister has the power to override the council and raise the limit, >despite the safety concerns. What both the reporter and the Council seem to have missed is that keeping the existing limit is not an option. The only limits they can impose are 50, 60, 80 or 100 km/h. Thus if they don't increase them to 80 km/h they will have to decrease them to 60 km/h. Given that the minister has repeatedly used this road as an example of an inappropriately low limit, I don't see how he can back down on this. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Wade | EMail: tee dot wade at eurokom dot ie EuroKom | X400: g=tom;s=wade;o=eurokom;p=eurokom; Unit A2 | a=eirmail400;c=ie Nutgrove Office Park | Tel: +353 (1) 296-9696 Rathfarnham | Fax: +353 (1) 296-9697 Dublin 14 | Disclaimer: This is not a disclaimer Ireland | Tip: "Friends don't let friends do Unix !"
