Maria Tsavachidis was surprised to learn of the backsliding in Ireland’s road death figures of late. “I was surprised, I didn’t know that in fact so I learned it from Mr Chambers’ intervention,” she said of junior transport minister Jack Chambers. Tsavachidis, who heads up EU-funded body EIT Urban Mobility, was in Dublin speaking at the recent EU road safety conference at the RDS, which gathered together policymakers and road safety authorities from across the continent to share their own findings on road safety. The conference took place at a pertinent time in Ireland where road safety has been in…

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