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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

QUESTION NO. 2

QUESTION: Councillor David McManus

To ask the Chief Executive if any further online surveys are planned in the consideration of speeding ramps in local estates in 2022 or 2023?

REPLY:

The Traffic Section will shortly ask the elected members for their lists of residential housing estates to be assessed for traffic calming interventions.  We have already assessed the Ramp and Traffic Calming applications received from the public.  

The plan is to assess all suggested estates for the implementation of a traffic calming scheme in accordance with the Street Improvement Guide which has been agreed at SPC and is being finalised for circulation at the moment.

That guide recommends that a broader range of traffic calming measures are used to lower traffic speed.  This principle is also in alignment with the advice contained in Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets 2019.

The Traffic Section will prioritise a list of estates in terms of need and design specific optimal traffic calming measures such as build outs, raised pedestrian tables, pedestrian crossing points and the limited use of ramps at these locations.

It is then our intention to put this list of proposals up on a online Portal for public consultation.  Based on the public consultation feedback, we will decide to go forward with the those estates with the most positive feedback.