The amount of speed cameras on the country’s roads is to be massively increased.
Transport Infrastructure Ireland is introducing a new strategy to expand the speed camera network in an effort to reduce road deaths.
188 people died on the roads last year, the highest in 12 years, with eight people loosing their lives on roads in Carlow and Kilkenny during that time.
Ireland South MEP and Carlow woman Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, who is calling for a “get tough approach” to speeding, believes the new cameras have to be where there are known problems, saying; “We don’t need a body that is removed from the town of Carlow, Clonmel, Cashel, Ennis, whatever to be deciding where these cameras would go; get the local intelligence from the county council, obviously An Garda Síochána will be involved and we’ve other state bodies TII etc, but we need the local voice”.
