The Road Safety Authority (RSA) is to ask the public for its ideas to improve road safety in Ireland.
The RSA has been given the responsibility of developing Ireland's new five-year road safety strategy, which will run from 2007-2011, and a public consultation process will be part of drawing up that strategy.
Noel Brett, Road Safety Authority
RSA chief executive Noel Brett said this is the first time that the public is being consulted on the development of Ireland's road safety strategy.
"All submissions will be examined carefully by the RSA and be considered as part of the new road safety strategy," he added.
To help the public formulate submissions, the RSA has highlighted the "four E's" that have the greatest impact on road safety:
- Education measures - explaining and teaching road safety to road users
- Engineering measures - building roads and vehicles more safely
- Enforcement measures - policing those who refuse to behave safely on the roads
- Evaluation measures - examining what has worked or failed.
Submissions should take up no more than two full A4 pages per area (ie education, engineering, enforcement and evaluation) and be posted directly to the Road Safety Strategy 2007-2011, Road Safety Authority, Ballina, Co Mayo, or e-mailed to strategy@rsa.ie.
Further information can be found on the RSA's website.