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    #32
    Falcon L
    Closed Accounts Posts: 891 ✭✭✭Falcon L


    yop wrote: »
    Happy days! :D

    Time they tackle the muppets who travel at 50 kmph now on single lane 100kmph roads! Them Yaris drivers! :D
    And what would they stop them for? They're not breaking any laws.

    BTW I agree that they shouldn't hold up the flow of traffic.


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    #33
    Neamhshuntasach
    Registered Users Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Neamhshuntasach


    Improper use of lanes must be one of the biggest offences on Irish roads. The revenue from it would pay for the extra patrolling in no time and bring in a load extra. Drove to Clones the weekend up the M1 and must have been prevented from overtaking about 100 times due to people doing 100 in the overtaking lane matching the speed of the car in front of me.


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    #34
    v240gltse
    Registered Users Posts: 642 ✭✭✭v240gltse


    about bloody time that they started stopping/fining these stupid drivers . One day last week i was traveling up the N7 and just before Rathcoole there were 8 cars in the middle lane and none in lane 1 or 3 . This lane hogging is a regular occurance and hopefully the hoggers will get to hear about it and MOVE OVER !!


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    #35
    Danjamin1
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Danjamin1


    It's a particularly annoying problem on Irish roads, I actually explained the lane dynamic of a three lane motorway to someone a few weeks back and they genuinely didn't know they were supposed to keep to the left lane when driving. This person has been driving roughly 10 years so I was shocked they didn't know this, not only that but they disputed it! I picked up an RSA booklet on motorway driving from a local Garda station to show them & only then was it accepted.

    Anyway, it's good to see some enforcement & hopefully there's plenty more if it to come. I'm sick of seeing people hogging the middle lane on the M50 when lane 1 is almost completely empty.


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    #36
    [Deleted User]
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    Which lanes are you actually supposed to stay in and which are for overtaking (or whatever they're for)? I'm asking for a friend...


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    #37
    Danjamin1
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Danjamin1


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Which lanes are you actually supposed to stay in and which are for overtaking (or whatever their for)? I'm asking for a friend...

    http://www.rsa.ie/Documents/Road%20Safety/Leaflets/Leaf_booklets/motorway_driving.pdf

    Pages 6 & 7 cover the lanes


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    #38
    [Deleted User]
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Which lanes are you actually supposed to stay in and which are for overtaking (or whatever they're for)? I'm asking for a friend...


    Very simple, stay left unless overtaking. This applies to almost all road driving.


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    #39
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users Posts: 4,973 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Which lanes are you actually supposed to stay in and which are for overtaking (or whatever they're for)? I'm asking for a friend...

    Only the left most, the other lanes are for overtaking only.

    344323.jpg


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    #40
    ironclaw
    Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    Currently in Germany and its frankly the most relaxing thing I've ever done. A motorway cruise is a joy because even north of 200km/h, people move out of your way in time and in a prompt fashion. And with no limit, you can concentrate on actually driving.

    Also, I have to say, the 'rescue alley' concept is fantastic and people actually take note of it. Basically, if there is an accident, the emergency services straddle lane 2 and 3, meaning traffic in 3 will move left and traffic in 2 move right. Creates a virtual fourth lane. A concept I can only imagine going to the dogs in Ireland.

    On topic however, I regularly see Traffic Corp, marked and unmarked, cruising in lane 2 or 3. So while welcomed, this is an issue that needs more than a few retweets.


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    #41
    markpb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,254 ✭✭✭markpb


    Damien360 wrote: »
    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.

    Do you mean you were between the protection and the target from time to time (i.e. between an AGS car and Army truck or between Army truck and cash-in-transit van)? I'd have no problem overtaking a Garda car under normal circumstances but I'm not sure I'd put myself in the middle of an CIT convoy.


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    #42
    H3llR4iser
    Registered Users Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭H3llR4iser


    I don't drive the M7/M8 or M50 very often, but the few times I did there were a few hoggers, but it wasn't too bad - at least compared with the N25 in Cork, where the leftmost lane(s) was apparently paved with landmines. You will regularly meet even tractors (which should really be banned from all dual carriageways) doing 30 km/h in the middle lane.

    Jumping from slip roads directly into the rightmost lane without looking is also the norm, as is driving unbelievably slow - when you see lorries having to move to overtake cars, there's something really wrong with the driving standards.


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    #43
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    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    Only the left most, the other lanes are for overtaking only.

    344323.jpg

    What's the thought process behind this?


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    #44
    Special Circumstances
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    What's the thought process behind this?
    I think the notion of a "thought process" might be beyond anyone who didn't manage to grasp the "stay left" concept. :D


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    #45
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Now if they'd just pursue the tools who drive around with foglights on all the time they'd have the entire National Debt repaid in a matter of weeks. I wish they'd get over this obsession with speed and pursue motorists for some other bad road manners like these.


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    #46
    punisher5112
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    markpb wrote: »
    Do you mean you were between the protection and the target from time to time (i.e. between an AGS car and Army truck or between Army truck and cash-in-transit van)? I'd have no problem overtaking a Garda car under normal circumstances but I'm not sure I'd put myself in the middle of an CIT convoy.



    No worries about this as they no longer escourt money transitions.


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    #47
    Killinator
    Registered Users Posts: 3,491 ✭✭✭Killinator


    r3nu4l wrote: »
    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!

    Just to go back on this, it's definitely an Audi A4(B6 body) in both tweet 1 and 3, which are both dealing with the same incident, hence 1/2 and 2/2.
    The tweets just aren't in proper order.


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    #48
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    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    I think the notion of a "thought process" might be beyond anyone who didn't manage to grasp the "stay left" concept. :D

    I find things easier to understand and remember if there are good reasons behind them. Surely there's a better reason than "that's the way it is". What's the point in putting all the traffic into one lane? I'm genuinely curious as a new driver.


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    #49
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Now if only we could get these:

    Lanes_Keep_Left_Unless_Overtaking_sign.JPG

    keep-left.jpg


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    #50
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,719 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I find things easier to understand and remember if there are good reasons behind them. Surely there's a better reason than "that's the way it is". What's the point in putting all the traffic into one lane? I'm genuinely curious as a new driver.

    It keeps the overtaking lanes clear for you know, overtaking.


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    #51
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    lertsnim wrote: »
    It keeps the overtaking lanes clear for you know, overtaking.

    Fair enough. I was picturing a scenario where the left lane is almost full and going slowly with everyone staying there obeying the rules. Surely in any sort of traffic it becomes a free-for-all?


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    #52
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users Posts: 13,406 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Fair enough. I was picturing a scenario where the left lane is almost full and going slowly with everyone staying there obeying the rules.

    It's perfectly legal to move into one of the other lanes to overtake the slower traffic in the leftmost lane. The problem occurs when people won't move back in and then nobody can overtake them.


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    #53
    ironclaw
    Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Fair enough. I was picturing a scenario where the left lane is almost full and going slowly with everyone staying there obeying the rules. Surely in any sort of traffic it becomes a free-for-all?

    No, simply because someone will always want to go faster and they will move right. The issue arises when those that move right, don't move left again. The M50 could easily manage as a dual lane road if people drove properly.


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    #54
    Panrich
    Registered Users Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭Panrich


    ironclaw wrote: »
    No, simply because someone will always want to go faster and they will move right. The issue arises when those that move right, don't move left again. The M50 could easily manage as a dual lane road if people drove properly.

    The M50 has become a sick joke of a road lately. Hoggers in the outside lane, undertaking, lane hopping, last minute exit scrambles and the obligatory bikers using the dotted line as an extra lane.


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    #55
    ironclaw
    Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    Panrich wrote: »
    The M50 has become a sick joke of a road lately. Hoggers in the outside lane, undertaking, lane hopping, last minute exit scrambles and the obligatory bikers using the dotted line as an extra lane.

    Thought it was just me, but I was out of the country for the last part of 2014, and came back to what I swore was a bigger mess than I left. I drive the M50 every day and it is, at least to me, getting worse. Having experienced Beijing and Mexico City traffic, really we ain't all that far off it.

    A clamp down and education round are sorely needed.


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    #56
    Volthar
    Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭Volthar


    I hope next lesson will be how to deal with roundabouts. Coolock roundabout is full of eejets.


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    #57
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    Panrich wrote: »
    The M50 has become a sick joke of a road lately. Hoggers in the outside lane, undertaking, lane hopping, last minute exit scrambles and the obligatory bikers using the dotted line as an extra lane.

    A multi vehicle crash has become a daily reality for the M50, there was a right hand lane collision this morning and now in the evening. Its a sad state of affairs.

    aaroadwatch
    DUBLIN Collision on M50 southbound at J12 Firhouse blocking right lane & middle lanes;delays back to J11 Tallaght http://t.co/r19oH1u8F2
    4/7/15, 8:24 AM

    ]aaroadwatch
    DUB/ M50: Two collision n'bound near J6 adding to delays from J7; first in hard shoulder before J6, second blocking right lane after J6.
    4/7/15, 5:15 PM


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    #58
    zetecescort
    Registered Users Posts: 5,045 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    Volthar wrote: »
    I hope next lesson will be how to deal with roundabouts. Coolock roundabout is full of eejets.

    problem with roundabouts in this country is that it seems no two are the same, left hand lane for left or straight on in some, left lane for left turn only on others


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    #59
    BMJD
    Registered Users Posts: 2,694 ✭✭✭BMJD


    BMJD wrote: »
    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!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMOPlDD9Yjk


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    #60
    Daaryl
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭Daaryl


    Why did that person just stop in the focus? Could of caused a unnecessary crash!


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    #61
    Volthar
    Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭Volthar


    zetecescort wrote:
    problem with roundabouts in this country is that it seems no two are the same, left hand lane for left or straight on in some, left lane for left turn only on others


    Even the small ones or rather espexially these cause issues like "the circle painted on the road" type of thing with yeld right of way signs on each entry but people ignoring the signs and just flying through


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