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Plastic bags over most of the signs in Kildare as the council don't have the signs
Most drivers will be now 20km over the limit on these roads as there's no guards checking except on motorways with the speed guns
On country roads they can't exactly stop and pull out a speed gun |
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No idea what the new limits are as this is the first I've heard of it. I was in England a few months ago and it was amazing how at every set of roadworks, and there were lots of them, every single driver slowed to whatever the posted limits were and there were no issues. I couldn't imagine that happening anywhere in this country. |
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By *evin86Man 5 days ago
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This is probably a controversial opinion, but I think the speed limits here are already too low for the most part. However I can agree that some select rural lanes shouldn't have an 80km/h limit, that being said I feel the major problem on the roads is poor quality of drivers. The driving test hasn't been probably updated since it's implementation.
Driving around a housing estate for a half an hour at 30km/h doesn't prepare a teenager to react quickly on a wet surface at 120km/h when it's life of death, so they just slam on the breaks because that's all they know.
I think we should have a compulsory off-road testing facility as part of the driving test to train drivers at higher speeds, wet surface skid correction training and simulated emergency reactions as we live in a country with poor road conditions for most of the year.
Alot of older drivers (no offence to anyone) have purchased their licenses. Or some foreign licenses get converted to a full Irish licence without need for a test.
Also driver re-training should be issued to road traffic offenders.
I feel this new reduction of speed limits is a fine collection exercise more than anything else.
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By *ezoMan 5 days ago
The Kingdom |
"Plastic bags over most of the signs in Kildare as the council don't have the signs
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I wonder if they can enforce them without changing the signs?
I understand some country roads need a speed reduction but so they not understand that means longer times on main roads, epically for drivers who do long distance driving. |
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"Plastic bags over most of the signs in Kildare as the council don't have the signs
I wonder if they can enforce them without changing the signs?
I understand some country roads need a speed reduction but so they not understand that means longer times on main roads, epically for drivers who do long distance driving."
I stand corrected .....to my amazement the bags are gone and the signs say 60
Obviously they changed them as they were going along but left the bag over it for the last couple of weeks as it showed the wrong speed |
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"This is probably a controversial opinion, but I think the speed limits here are already too low for the most part. However I can agree that some select rural lanes shouldn't have an 80km/h limit, that being said I feel the major problem on the roads is poor quality of drivers. The driving test hasn't been probably updated since it's implementation.
Driving around a housing estate for a half an hour at 30km/h doesn't prepare a teenager to react quickly on a wet surface at 120km/h when it's life of death, so they just slam on the breaks because that's all they know.
I think we should have a compulsory off-road testing facility as part of the driving test to train drivers at higher speeds, wet surface skid correction training and simulated emergency reactions as we live in a country with poor road conditions for most of the year.
Alot of older drivers (no offence to anyone) have purchased their licenses. Or some foreign licenses get converted to a full Irish licence without need for a test.
Also driver re-training should be issued to road traffic offenders.
I feel this new reduction of speed limits is a fine collection exercise more than anything else.
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What's this about a lot of older drivers purchasing their licence?  |
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What's this about a lot of older drivers purchasing their licence?
Huge amount of people got a free licence in the early 80's or late 70's
The backlog was so big that the government decided that everyone that paid the fee got a licence without having to sit the test
Then all the kids named their mothers as main driver and the kids as secondary driver to get cheap insurance
The mothers never drove in their lives |
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"What's this about a lot of older drivers purchasing their licence?
Huge amount of people got a free licence in the early 80's or late 70's
The backlog was so big that the government decided that everyone that paid the fee got a licence without having to sit the test
Then all the kids named their mothers as main driver and the kids as secondary driver to get cheap insurance
The mothers never drove in their lives "
I wouldn't say huge tbh.
60,000 in 1979. 50% of them would most likely have passed their test if it had happened, leaving possibly 30,000 that shouldn't have passed.
The youngest of them would now be 65, the average among them probably 10 or 15 years above that. Many of them will now be dead. Many more simply don't drive.
Currently there are over 3,400,000 licence holders in Ireland. 30 or 40 thousand is not a significant number in the greater scheme of things. |
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It is not really the speed limits that are the issue. When driving at the speed limit, whatever it may be, you get constant tailgating, flashing headlights and aggressive overtaking. Nothing seems to be done, there is no (visible) enforcement against aggressive driving and it's getting worse by the day. I just witnessed a situation a few days ago on the M18 where the morning traffic reduced speeds to around 60 on both lanes and some "drivers", after tailgating and flashing, started overtaking traffic on the hard shoulder/ sliding into the grass because it wasn't fast enough for them.  I had several near missed over the last year due to other drivers dangerously overtaking me / other cars - and just to clarify: I am driving at the limit if safe to do so, I am not driving 20 km/h under slowing down traffic.
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"It is not really the speed limits that are the issue. When driving at the speed limit, whatever it may be, you get constant tailgating, flashing headlights and aggressive overtaking. Nothing seems to be done, there is no (visible) enforcement against aggressive driving and it's getting worse by the day. I just witnessed a situation a few days ago on the M18 where the morning traffic reduced speeds to around 60 on both lanes and some "drivers", after tailgating and flashing, started overtaking traffic on the hard shoulder/ sliding into the grass because it wasn't fast enough for them. I had several near missed over the last year due to other drivers dangerously overtaking me / other cars - and just to clarify: I am driving at the limit if safe to do so, I am not driving 20 km/h under slowing down traffic.
Mr
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Agreed alot of people driving like twats. However I think roads policing is terrible in the country. I've never seen someone pulled for incorrect lane etc. Because of this undertaking seems to be the norm in Ireland. Until simple issues like this are policed I think we are going to continue to have loads of accidents on the roads. |
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"It is not really the speed limits that are the issue. When driving at the speed limit, whatever it may be, you get constant tailgating, flashing headlights and aggressive overtaking. Nothing seems to be done, there is no (visible) enforcement against aggressive driving and it's getting worse by the day. I just witnessed a situation a few days ago on the M18 where the morning traffic reduced speeds to around 60 on both lanes and some "drivers", after tailgating and flashing, started overtaking traffic on the hard shoulder/ sliding into the grass because it wasn't fast enough for them. I had several near missed over the last year due to other drivers dangerously overtaking me / other cars - and just to clarify: I am driving at the limit if safe to do so, I am not driving 20 km/h under slowing down traffic.
Mr
Agreed alot of people driving like twats. However I think roads policing is terrible in the country. I've never seen someone pulled for incorrect lane etc. Because of this undertaking seems to be the norm in Ireland. Until simple issues like this are policed I think we are going to continue to have loads of accidents on the roads."
Passing on the hard shoulder is illegal but passing on the left where there are marked lanes and the traffic in the right hand lane is moving slowly is not. |
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Our road now has a 60 limit. There was never a sign before so I had no idea but I can't believe it was 80. Its only wide enough for one car with some passing spaces. No way you could safely do 80 on it |
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Most people drive below the speed limit on rural back roads as they have to due to bends condition of the roads etc but you will still meet people who think you have to be on the limit.Its a limit not a target speed |
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By *evin86Man 5 days ago
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Passing on the hard shoulder is illegal but passing on the left where there are marked lanes and the traffic in the right hand lane is moving slowly is not. "
I've had many an argument about this topic.
You are absolutely correct in what your saying. Undertaking an vehicle on a motorway (contrary to what most people think) is completely legal. The right lane is for overtaking. That doesn't mean you can just sit there because your doing the speed limit. |
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