Speed limit changes on Mayo roads from today
Local authorities have received grants to change speed limit signs from ‘80’ to ‘60’ on relevant local roads.
As new speed limits take effect across the country today, Irish motorists are being reminded that breaking these limits, while primarily a road safety concern, can lead to incurring penalty points which has the knock-on impact of pushing up the cost of motoring.
The limits to be introduced from today are the first in a series of changes which will follow later in the year. Today’s changes will see the speed limit on many rural local Mayo roads changes from 80 kilometres per hour to 60 kilometres per hour.
- The fixed charge fine for a speeding offence is either €160, €240 or €320, depending on how quickly the fine is paid.
- Local authorities have received grants to change speed limit signs from ‘80’ to ‘60’ on relevant local roads.
- The striped ‘rural speed limit sign’, which is used as an alternative to numeric speed limit signs on specific single lane rural roads, will also now mean that a maximum 60 kilometres per hour speed limit is in force.
