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The closing date for submissions from members of the public on improvement works including footpaths, pedestrian crossings, and traffic calming measures in Mulranny village is on Tuesday, April 23. The four elected councillors in the Belmullet electoral area were given an update on the plans at the April meeting of the electoral committee.

Construction of a new roadway in the city’s eastern limits was given the go-ahead by councillors at Monday’s city council meeting.

Road fatality figures released by the Road Safety Authority (RSA) have revealed that there was a 43 per cent reduction in road deaths in Mayo during the Government Road Safety Strategy 2007 to 2012 when compared to the period of the previous strategy which ran from 2004 to 2006. These figures were announced as the RSA prepares to finalise the next Road Safety Strategy which will span an eight year period from 2013 to 2020.

Seven people lost their lives on Mayo roads in 2012, a reduction of four from the 11 who were fatally injured in 2011.

Ireland has lots of lovely new roads. Nice to have got something out of the boom while it lasted. But while we might be delighted with the shiny new motorways it is easy to lose sight of the fact that as well as some good roads we have an awful lot of bad ones.

Deep within the bowels of City Hall lies a control centre which looks as if it came straight out of a Bond movie. With massive screens, whirring computers, eagle-eyed operators and no seeming way of escape, all that is missing is a one-eyed balding villain, stroking a pristine white cat and drawing up a dastardly plan to take over the world.

So much of road safety centres around persuading people to slow down. Rightly so; speed does indeed kill. In ordinary circumstances any given human mistake and any given collision will be made much worse by excessive speed.

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With a couple of months of dark nights and mornings still ahead of us the road safety working group in Mayo County Council are again reminding people when out walking, cycling, or running on the roads to think about whether they can be seen by other road users.

The Government has made road safety a key priority and this combined with individual responsibility can help reduce deaths in Galway, that is according to Colm Keaveney TD.