Director of Services defends reduced speed limit on newly opened M7 motorway

The director of services with Kildare County Council, Niall Morrissey, has defended the decision to keep the speed limit on the newly upgraded M7 at 60km/h for today.

All three lanes of the 13km stretch of motorway opened this morning and the speed limit will be changed to 80km/h tomorrow, he told RTÉ radio’s Today with Miriam O’Callaghan show.