Sir, – Hugo Lacy (January 23rd) wonders whether the Minister for Transport took advice from people suffering from various back ailments before asking local authorities to implement more traffic calming measures and 30 km/h zones.
Perhaps sore drivers could just slow right down in the vicinity of speed ramps, which is the purpose of traffic calming in any case.
A survey conducted by the Department of Transport last year found that the overwhelming majority of urban streets and housing estates around Ireland had no traffic-calming measures in place. – Yours, etc,
SIMON COMER,
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Rahoon,
Galway.