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    #2
    Kenny Logins
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    Some people really, honestly, believe lane choice is simply a matter of personal preference.


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    #3
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    I'd pay to see video footage of them trying to explain to them what they were doing wrong. Like explaining astrophysics to a donkey.


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    Owryan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    They stopped someone on the m9 just outside Kilkenny for the same thing tonight.

    Was driving along in the overtaking lane for bout 10 minutes when the squad car flashed him.


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    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,312 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    They should put them on the 6pm news as first story for a week. There should also be a €100k fine for any mention of "the fast lane" in the media or AA Roadwatch, it's a regular occurance.


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    r3nu4l
    Registered Users Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    Delighted to see this...even if the pictures in the first and third tweet are exactly the same, describing different offences. Car in Pic 1 does not look like an Audi A4 either :)

    Bake 'em away toys!


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    kerry4sam
    Registered Users Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Simply Wonderful News!

    Just about time too before the season kicks off leading to more people on the roads.

    Now, just get the message out there and continue on from this :)

    Well Done,
    Keep it Up!


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    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,063 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Praise the Lord.


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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,347 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    I drove in the M7 a few weeks ago and on the stretch between the Naas north exit and the M50 where there is three lanes, there was a a Garda Traffic Corps car driving merrily along in the middle lane with no traffic inside him i.e. he was hogging the centre lane, just like thousands of other motorists drive on the M50 every day of the week.


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    A couple of cars on the M50 full time would be self financing.


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,387 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    A lot of cars would be afraid to pass a squad car, even within the speed limit.

    Good to see this being enforced, but like national slow down day - shouldn't they always have done this?


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    JPF82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭JPF82


    The learner driver is getting done for dangerous driving too. They stopped in lane 2 instead of pulling over. Christ almighty!


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    Daaryl
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭Daaryl


    About time!!


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    Outkast_IRE
    Registered Users Posts: 7,515 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    I think the boost in garda numbers over the next few years will see a crackdown on alot of driving offences.

    Down my direction in cork city traffic corp are a rare site these days, i remember about 10 years ago they would be plaguing junctions every morning catching people on phones etc.

    Have been doing a fair bit of motorway driving recently, the speed limit seems optional to a good 60/70% of the drivers, for the first time in a long time i seen an unmarked BMW Garda car chasing down the worst offenders............ Unfortunatly the garda pulled him into the hard shoulder on the side of the motorway and both of them left the arse of the car hanging out into the driving lane, very dangerous.


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    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,388 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Fantastic news. If this were finally properly enforced and the donkeys that do this everyday were put in their place, we'd have a lot more usable capacity on our roads, especially the N/M7. How many times have we all seen a plonker hog the overtaling lane for miles, with lots of usable km of road blocked off in front of them due to their own incompetence.


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    JPF82 wrote: »
    The learner driver is getting done for dangerous driving too. They stopped in lane 2 instead of pulling over. Christ almighty!


    I imagine it went something like this

    [Note: Bad language]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5dL4DPm-DE


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    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    cisk wrote: »
    I imagine it went something like this

    [Note: Bad language]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5dL4DPm-DE

    For a moment I actually thought he/she was going to stop dead in the lane!


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    Damien360
    Registered Users Posts: 6,329 ✭✭✭Damien360


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    A lot of cars would be afraid to pass a squad car, even within the speed limit.

    Good to see this being enforced, but like national slow down day - shouldn't they always have done this?

    This does my nut in.

    I came upon 30 or so cars in a line on the M8 southbound behind a marked squad car doing 100kmph near Cashel. I cruised by at 120 and with that the whole line decided it was ok to pass the squad car and jumped out. Guards must have been wetting themselves.

    Same thing with Garda escorts for money vans on N5 between mullingar and Longford doing 80kmph. Overtook the lot in steps on clear run. I was the only one.


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    fullstop
    Registered Users Posts: 11,314 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Came up behind someone doing just under the speed limit on the N7 inbound last week just after Naas. He passed a few cars, there was a big gap and he still sat in lane 3, eventually passed another car or 2 a minute or so later. At this point there was a big gap in lane 2. After another 30 seconds or so without pulling over, I flashed the lights at him at which point he put on the hazards and floored it the whole way to Green Isle hotel (from 60 to ~80mph), all the time in lane 3. The mentality of these people beggars belief, can't bear to have someone pass them.


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    Damien360
    Registered Users Posts: 6,329 ✭✭✭Damien360


    fullstop wrote: »
    Came up behind someone doing just under the speed limit on the N7 inbound last week just after Naas. He passed a few cars, there was a big gap and he still sat in lane 3, eventually passed another car or 2 a minute or so later. At this point there was a big gap in lane 2. After another 30 seconds or so without pulling over, I flashed the lights at him at which point he put on the hazards and floored it the whole way to Green Isle hotel (from 60 to ~80mph), all the time in lane 3. The mentality of these people beggars belief, can't bear to have someone pass them.

    That is every single morning but it usually starts at about junction 10.


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    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭pablo128


    cisk wrote: »
    I imagine it went something like this

    [Note: Bad language]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5dL4DPm-DE

    I nearly wet myself laughing at that. Even the missus had a laugh! That's made my weekend!:D


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    carzony
    Registered Users Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭carzony


    In all fairness driving on motorways should be part of a driving exam. I'd rather people learn how to drive on a motorway rather than reversing around corners lol...


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    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users Posts: 5,540 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    Fantastic news. I hope they do this all the time from now on, not just the odd day like 'national slow down day' (an oxymoron if ever there was one, since a lot of motorists drive very slowly anyway).

    They should have done this throughout the recession, wouldn't have been long putting a few quid into the state's coffers, such is the blatant level of middle and overtaking lane hogging that goes on in this country. The N7, three lane stretches of the South Ring Road in Cork and the M50 are desperate, lane one is like a road all on its own half the time it's so empty while all the idiots hog lanes 2 and 3.


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    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users Posts: 4,973 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    the 2nd car is being done for dangerous driving?:eek:


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    paulmclaughlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭paulmclaughlin


    Good stuff, learner driver's aren't meant to be on the motorway, let alone unaccompanied.


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    guil
    Registered Users Posts: 10,487 ✭✭✭✭guil


    paulmclaughlin wrote: »
    Good stuff, learner driver's aren't meant to be on the motorway, let alone unaccompanied.

    The N7 isn't a motorway.


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    paulmclaughlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭paulmclaughlin


    guil wrote: »
    The N7 isn't a motorway.

    My mistake.


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    BMJD
    Registered Users Posts: 2,694 ✭✭✭BMJD


    I think I witnessed AGS attempting to pull over someone doing this on the M50 last night. The middle lane moron came to a stop - in the middle lane. I will post the dashcam footage later on. Most of the other cars around had the usual blue-light-panic-attack too!


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    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,722 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    Happy days! :D

    Time they tackle the muppets who travel at 50 kmph now on single lane 100kmph roads! Them Yaris drivers! :D


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    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    yop wrote: »
    Happy days! :D

    Time they tackle the muppets who travel at 50 kmph now on single lane 100kmph roads! Some Yaris drivers! :D

    Hey! :pac:


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    obezyana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭obezyana


    In all fairness how do ye actually know that the person got pulled over for those offenses? They could of got pulled for anything and the Garda twitter knows a good PR stunt when they see one :)


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