COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN, NEWCASTLE, RATHCOOLE, SAGGART AND BRITTAS AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

QUESTION NO. 12

QUESTION: Councillor W. Carey

To ask the Chief Executive what progress has been made on the suggestion to offer "children at play signs" in selected locations.

REPLY:

At the Clondalkin January TMM the senior engineer John Hegarty agreed to a pilot scheme where the councillors could suggest 12 locations for an additional composite Children at Play/Slow Zone/30kph sign and the traffic section would install them. A speed survey would be carried out in advance at each location and another survey once the signs had been installed for 6 months to ascertain if the signs had any affect in reducing speeding in the estate.

The normal policy is to install the composite Children at Play/Slow Zone/30kph signs at the entrance road to estates and not to install repeater signs. It is acknowledged that in larger estates, there may be locations where the existing slow zone sign is at a significant distance away.  These locations might benefit from a repeater sign.

The Councillors are now invited to put forward their suggested locations for consideration for the pilot scheme to either John Joe Hegarty, Farhan Nasiem or Angela Kelleghan and we will propose a pilot county wide list for 2024.

Proposal 2024:

RTFB - 3 locations

Clondalkin - 3 locations

LPNC - 3 locations

Tallaght - 3 locations