The speed limit at Belfield

[Brendan Burgess]

Many drivers have suggested that the speed limit on the Stillorgan Road should be increased. The Minister for Transport asked Dun Laoghaire Council to review the speed limit last year and they have decided to retain it for the following reasons, given in an Irish Times article by Martin Wall:

...officials decided that the speed limit should not be increased [from 40 mph] ...on the grounds that there was a quality bus corridor on the road, there were adjacent cycle tracks and there were several junctions feeding traffic on to the road from residential areas.

In fact, the speed limit is going to fall to 37 kph when the conversion to kilometres takes place next month.

Brendan