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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 08, 2012

QUESTION NO. 17

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Manager to provide a detailed update on the council’s review of HGV restrictions?

REPLY:

An update report on this matter will be brought to the next Transportation Strategic Policy Committee. This report will be based on the work progressed by the sub committee of the Joint Transportation and Economic Development SPCs. The sub committee has met on two occasions to consider the aspects of HGV management across South Dublin County Council.

Two items were of particular interest to the sub committee:

i.  The level of the restriction taking into account the inclusion of all vehicles from delivery vans to articulated lorries. This is seen as too blunt to give an appropriate balance to suburban road management.

ii.  The layout of restrictions within the county and the case by case basis for adjudging each restriction. This has resulted in a situation where the consequents of HGV mobility appear to be concentrated on fewer roads. This gives rise to local concerns and comparisons.

New regulations have been published governing the restricting of vehicles by weight these, when commenced, will replace the existing arrangement there by replacing the three tonne unladen weight with a range of design gross vehicle weights.

The sub committee is made up of members selected from the Transportation and the Planning & Economic Development SPCs.