‘Knock on-consequences for whole economy’
Report from independent review
What restrictions on the public are justified to achieve an unknown further reduction in road deaths, when the restrictions are certain and the benefits uncertain?
Also: Allison Pearson, Election Gossip, the morality of loyalty, and why I’m sick of telling people how to vote.
Not everybody, of course, obeys the speed limit. But in part, I would argue, this is because in Ireland speed limits are rarely – except in urban areas – connected to safety.
113 road deaths so far this year.
Based on annual rate of inflation.
If it occasionally appears on these pages as if some of us have difficulty taking Government policy seriously, then that’s simply one example of why.
This is a Government that sees its people as the biggest problem facing the country. It is a sentiment that the public should return, with interest.
Motorists are a powerful voting block in Ireland, and one that gets regularly abused by politicians
“Further expansion of the motorway and road network.”