Road Safety

Fingal County Council's Road Safety Officer sits within the Department of Environment, Climate Action and Active Travel.

Fingal Road Safety Action Plan 2025 / 2027

Ensuring road safety is not merely a responsibility, but a commitment to safeguarding lives, preventing accidents, and nurturing a sense of security for all road users through Fingal. By prioritising road safety, Fingal County Council actively contributes to the sustainable development of our region as well as fostering safer more liveable communities. The Fingal Road Safety Action Plan examines works of the previous Road Safety Plan 2017-2020 and sets out a plan for Fingal to achieve Ireland’s long term goal of achieving Vision Zero (i.e. zero road deaths or serious injuries) by 2050. 

See full document here Fingal Road Safety Action Plan | Fingal County Council

Schools Road Safety

Fingal County Council works with primary and post-primary schools to provide infrastructure, support, training and outreach programmes that make walking and cycling to school safer.

Our role is to reduce current road safety risks for children such as;

• School gate congestion
• Illegal parking blocking footpaths
• Parking on DYL’s
• Rat Running Traffic
• Overcrowding of footpaths
• Poor visibility for parents and children
• U-Turning traffic
• Road safety risks
• Cars idling outside school gate harming young lungs

Road Safety at Scoil Mhuire Agus Iosef - Bayside National School

Road Safety Education

AXA Roadsafe Roadshow

AXA Roadsafe Roadshow in partnership with Fingal County Council, is an educational event for Transition Year students. Held in the Helix, secondary schools from across County Dublin are invited to come and immerse themselves in an hour long experience.

School Streets

A School Street is a designated Car Free Zone outside a school. It offers a temporary pedestrian and cycling zone which operates only during drop off and collection times. School Streets provide a safe environment for children when they need it most and make the experience of arriving at and leaving school more enjoyable, less stressful and above all much safer.

School Street - Thornleigh Green in Swords 

As part of European Mobility Week 2025, Thornleigh Green in Swords was temporarily closed to facilitate the creation of a school street.

Ballisk, Donabate One Way System Trial

As part of European Mobility Week 2025, Fingal County Council trialed a one-way system around the campus at Ballisk, Donabate. 

Cycling & Walking Buses

Cycling buses and Walking buses promote Active Travel on a child's journey to school, by bike or on foot.

Volunteers, parents and teachers, escort groups of children along a set route, on a set timetable, every day during school term. Just like a school bus these alternative Active Travel 'buses' stop to pick up children at points along the route to school.