Cullen raps failure to use speed limit law

THE failure of local authorities to introduce special speed limits for roads outside schools and other high-risk locations has been criticised by Minister for Transport Martin Cullen.

Since early 2005, following the metrication of speed limits, councils are allowed to set 30km/h speed limits, and also to respond topublic demands for existing limits to be either increased or decreased.

Mr Cullen told the NRA conference on road safety in Dublin yesterday, which included many local authority representatives, that he was unhappy with the poor response to the setting of special speed limits.