Over 3,500 Tipperary road signs changed during national speed limit review

A large chunk of Tipperary County Council’s road budget was spent on changing speed limit signs on local and rural roads.

That was according to the district engineer of the Tipperary Cahir Cashel Municipal District, who told councillors at February’s monthly meeting that despite an increase in funding for 2025, the amount available to the local authority to invest in roads remained largely unchanged due to the national speed limit review.

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Over 3,500 signs across Tipperary had to be changed as part of the national review of speed limits, which saw speed limits on rural local roads decrease from 80km/h to 60km/h, limits in urban centres lowered to 30km/h, while the speed limits on national secondary roads were dropped from 100km/h to 80km/h.

An additional €1million was allocated to Tipperary County Council for the new signage as part of the review, councillors were told, which covered the cost of the new signs themselves, but not the installation of the signs by council workers.

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Despite this, it is hoped that there will be an increase in the amount of funding available to Tipperary County Council for roads under the restoration and improvement scheme.