Road Safety

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

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.

Safe Routes to School

The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programme aims to create safer walking and cycling routes within communities, reduce congestion at school gates, and increase the number of students walking or cycling to school by providing high‑quality walking and cycling facilities. Improvements to a school’s commute may range from upgraded footpaths or new protected cycle lanes to a complete redesign of a school entrance to better facilitate active travel.

The programme is funded by the Department of Transport through the National Transport Authority (NTA) and supported by the Department of Education. An Taisce’s Green-Schools programme is coordinating the initiative and selecting participating schools, while Fingal County Council is responsible for delivering the infrastructure required. Schools were selected for participation in 2021 based on several criteria including school type, location, and commitment to sustainable travel.

Schools Included in the Fingal Safe Routes to School Programme:

SRTS Round 1 – Tranche 1

All works are now completed.

1. St. Benedict’s NS, Ongar, Dublin 15, D15 VR72
2. Bayside Junior School
3. Bayside Senior School
4. Castaheany Educate Together NS, Ongar Village
5. Rush & Lusk Educate Together NS

SRTS Round 1 – Tranche 2

All works are now completed.

6. Pope John Paul II NS, Malahide
7. Scoil Choilm CNS, Porterstown
8. Scoil Ghrainne CNS, Phibblestown
9. Ladyswell NS, Mulhuddart

SRTS Round 2

Works scheduled to commence in Q2 2026.

10. St. Helen’s SNS, Limetree Avenue, Portmarnock
11. Holy Family JNS, Forest Fields, Swords
12. Scoil Bhríde Buachaillí, Church Avenue, Blanchardstown
13. Scoil Bhríde Cailíní, Church Avenue, Blanchardstown
14. St. Colmcille’s Girls' National School, Chapel Lane, Swords

SRTS Round 3

Design phase scheduled for 2026, with works to follow.

15. Broadmeadow CNS
16. Donabate Portrane ETNS
17. Holywell ETNS
18. Malahide/Portmarnock ETNS
19. Scoil Mhuire Junior
20. Scoil Thomáis
21. St. Nicholas of Myra NS, Kinsealy

SRTS Round 4

An Taisce has recently announced the following Round 4 schools:

22. Coolmine Community School (91315O), Eircode: D15 W97
23. Scoil Oilibhéir (19505L), Eircode: D15 PX99
24. St. Joseph’s Secondary School (60343T), Eircode: K56 A308
25. Gaelscoil Ros Eo (20334R), Eircode: K56 C867
26. Scoil Moibhi (155569R), Eircode: K34 WP77
27. St. Andrew’s NS (11583O), Eircode: K36 HD54

Remaining SRTS Schools for Subsequent Rounds

28. St. Oliver Plunkett’s NS, Coach Road, Balrothery, K32 WR94 – Roll No. 17569E
29. Balscadden NS, Ring Commons, K32 VK33 – Roll No. 09492W
30. Riversdale Community College, Blanchardstown Road North, Dublin 15, D15 P380 – Roll No. 70081V
31. Castleknock Educate Together NS, Beechpark Avenue, Castleknock, D15 X094 – Roll No. 20098I
32. Mary Queen of Ireland NS, Toberburr Street, St. Margaret’s, K67 E718 – Roll No. 19693P
33. Skerries Educate Together NS, Kelly’s Bay Drive, Barnageeragh Cove, Skerries, K34 CX46 – Roll No. 20307O
34. Hedgestown NS, Jordanstown, K45 YP02 – Roll No. 17472M
35. Scoil Moibhí, Margaretstown, Skerries, K34 WP77 – Roll No. 15569R
36. St. Patrick’s National School, Diswellstown
37. St. Luke's National School, Tyrrelstown