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Fine Gael TD for Mayo, Michelle Mulherin, has called for a full review of speed limits currently in place across Mayo including in housing estates and areas where children play. Deputy Mulherin was speaking following the launch of a new document entitled “Guidelines for Setting and Managing Speed Limits”, which has been produced by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Paschal Donohoe TD.

City Direct Bus ,which provides public transport services in Galway city, has been shortlisted for Passenger Transport Company of The Year and the Safety Award in the upcoming Irish Logistics & Transport Awards 2015.

Some €550,000 of a €2.2 million Government grant for transport improvement projects in Galway will go towards developing cycleways in the city and Salthill, and other cycling infrastructure.

The volume and speed of traffic on Shantalla Road means the area is “an accident waiting to happen”, according to Labour candidate John McDonagh.

There is a “serious threat to life” caused by the complete lack of adequate traffic calming and safety measures in the immediate vicinity of schools on Threadneedle Road, according to Galway City West and Knocknacarra councillor Donal Lyons.

The provision of proper bus shelters could be the first step for motorists seeing an alternative to the car, that is according to Independent city councillor Donal Lyons.

Castlebar is not a pedestrian friendly town and something needs to be done about the town's roundabouts, according to local Fianna Fail area rep, Lisa Chambers. "I was shopping around Tesco in Castlebar during the week and trying to navigate the roundabout to get to Boots was a nightmare," said Ms Chambers. She contined: "I noticed a mother with a pram and actually stopped to observe how she could cross the roundabout and it was with great difficulty. She almost had to use the pram as a traffic stopper. The speed with which cars are travelling though this roundabout is much too fast and traffic calming measures are needed.

Tuam Road resembles a “parking bay”; the lights at the Thermo King junction are “causing problems”; and after all the money spent on signalised junctions there is still trouble with traffic flow in the city.

Speeding motorists and ‘rat runners’ in Renmore are a danger to drivers, walkers, and cyclists, and traffic calming measures must be installed to “curb their activities”.

The chairman of Galway City Council’s Transport and Infrastructure Committee, Cllr Michael Crowe, announced this week that a number of areas in Renmore will have traffic calming measures installed in the coming weeks.