"A medium found out that a lady had cursed the place so we had to get her permission," said Director of Roads Jonasson.
"We are not trying to hide our beliefs, but is there really anything unique about Iceland?" asks Snaebjorn Jonasson, the island's Director of Roads.
Harish Wahi, director of road safety NGO Equal Streets, thinks that the city's traffic problems run even deeper.
She told him that she'd been working on the movie version of "The Shock Doctrine," which was being made by the director of "Road to Guantánamo".
Bella Dinh-Zarr, the North American director of a global initiative called Make Roads Safe, as well as director of road safety for the FIA Foundation, said: "We understand all the economic issues and the worry that cars will not be affordable.
Speed limits there, which are set by the individual provinces, are essentially unchanged, although vehicle registrations and drivers have approximately doubled in 20 years, according to Derek Sweet, director of road safety at Transport Canada, a Government agency.
Within hours, Shapps, who as party co-chair had appointed Clarke as director of Road Trip 2015 resigned as international development minister saying he believed the "buck should stop with me".
"I think that the generally-held opinion of the speed with which the last tranche of cycle superhighways was delivered is that it was sub-optimal," was how TfL's director of road space management Alan Bristow delicately put it to the London Assembly transport committee on Tuesday when contributing to its investigation into congestion.
Director of Road Safety Scotland Michael McDonald, along with the group Scotland's Campaign Against Irresponsible Drivers, welcomes the new limit.
"There is going to be an estimated 83% increase in traffic deaths in the next 10 years in low and middle income countries unless we take action now," said Bella Dinh-Zarr, the North American director of Make Roads Safe and director of road safety for the FIA Foundation.
