Non-national roads ‘have not kept pace with demands’

THE standard of non-national Irish roads came under fire from one of Australia’s leading road safety experts yesterday.

Nial Finegan, who is responsible for road safety in the Australian state of Victoria, said there was a huge difference in standards between new motorways and inter-urban routes and older country roads.

Mr Finegan, who comes originally from Dublin, said many non-national roads were no longer capable of coping with the growing volume of traffic.