30kph coming to Dublin road near you? (note warning in post #254)

These "benefit" will likely be theoretical, misguided and can be likened to using a wrecking ball to drive a nail, as far as proportionality is concerned.

Speeds above 30mph (50kph) are already banned in all core urban areas including city arterial roads. The list above also assumes that motorists never have any warning of an impending collision, in reality a motorist will likely hit the brakes, reducing their speed. Pedestrian fatalities in this country are relatively low, indicating that at most a tiny minority of motorists or pedestrians use the roads in a way that make pedestrian fatalities likely.

Finally, as routine pedestrian in Dublin city for many years, I could think of half a dozen things that would make my journeys safer and less stressful that have nothing to do with motorist speed.

1) Footpaths that are wide enough for purpose.
2) Junctions that should have pedestrian crossing for all arms (Merrion Row, Baggot St. and Ely Place I'm looking you)
3) More and official "scramble" crossings that allow you to cross diagonally at a junction instead of having to cross multiple arms separately. Less nonsense like this in Santry.
4) Shorter waits plus countdown timers at signal controlled pedestrian crossings. Ironically DCC once had countdown to green man timers on pedestrian crossings South of O'Connell bridge, but they were taken down and not replaced when the lights were "modernised" a few years back. Why?
5) Special measures to prevent motorists, bus drivers etc from blocking pedestrian crossings during peak times. Trying to cross Clare St. at the Merrion Sq. junction, i.e. from the National Museum to the Mont hotel (link) can be ... interesting at 6PM on a weekday.
6) Better control over the behaviour of cyclists which borders on total lawlessness.

Maybe DCC should focus on this before they worry about motorist speed.

I never claimed that all motorists and bus drivers were absolutely 100% perfect. But yes, the absolute worst I've encountered from Irish motorists is that they can sometimes be inconsiderate. And BTW this has nothing to do with speed.

And my 6 point list was not mutually exclusive, all 6 can be problems experienced by the same pedestrian(s) and I have found all to be so. None of them have anything to do with motorist speed and all could be fixed without an overkill, blanket reduction in maximum speed limits.