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Tips To Avoid Speeding

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    #32
    robbie99
    Registered Users Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭robbie99


    CiniO wrote: »
    Can you show any single example of R road with 100km/h speed limit.

    Many R roads in West Cork are 100km/h.

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.7505628,-9.3762485,3a,75y,72.02h,81.8t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgigwCQEaI6bTD3VbcFrelQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


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    #33
    savagethegoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭savagethegoat


    the main drag back to the City from Bantry is a 100km/h R Road, the N road takes the long way round....odd but true


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    #34
    moleyv
    Registered Users Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭moleyv


    R639 NewInn to Cashel, 100kmph.


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    #35
    FrontDoor
    Registered Users Posts: 336 ✭✭FrontDoor


    How to avoid speeding?

    6 points on your licence is a great way to focus the mind.

    Extremely easy to do too, particularly in those areas on the outskirts of towns where it goes from 80 to 50.

    A Sat Nav would be my suggestion.


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    #36
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,861 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    Avoid speeding?

    Drive a 1.9D Corolla :)


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    #37
    bmstuff
    Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭bmstuff


    mikeecho wrote: »
    Take the bus/train.

    It might add a few hours to your commute, but you can easily pass the time by reading the rules of the road.

    You can obey speed limits and still enjoy your kid(s)/wife/hubby in the evening/morning, still have a life like
    If you spend more than 2h in your commute each day, there is something wrong with your life/work balance.
    We only live once.
    My 2 cents


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    #38
    RandomAccess
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭RandomAccess


    Some cars have a camera that reads the road signs and displays it, the Opel insignia is one such car.

    http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20081020005163/en/Hella-Supplies-2009-Opel-Traffic-Sign-Detection

    When I was in the UK some time back there were a lot of speed limit changes and speed cameras everywhere so I asked my passenger to call out any 30's they saw just in case! Low tech but it worked. Maybe train your kids :-) if you have any.

    Otherwise cruise control is a good idea.
    Really I find part of the issue is the speed limits seem to change when you are driving in a busy area and spending more time watching for hazards than noticing signage.

    The OPs question is genuine, pity theres so many troll answers on this thread.


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    #39
    duffman3833
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭duffman3833


    people on this saying obey the limits, pay attention to road etc.. makes me laugh, like as if they are angels on the roads. Everyone goes over the limit daily, especially in 30 or 50kmh zones. I understand where OP is coming from. I the odd time would go down a small road and come to a cross road for example. you go down the road and no sign displaying the speed limit. have to guess until, maybe miles and miles later, you find a speed sign and adjust speed. I know a certain village has a 30kmh zone and not a single vehicle obeys that limit simply because its too slow for the type of road (It goes from 100 -> 60 ->30). I could nearly run that speed flat out


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    #40
    savagethegoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭savagethegoat


    duffman3833 wrote: »
    people on this saying obey the limits, pay attention to road etc.. makes me laugh, like as if they are angels on the roads. Everyone goes over the limit daily, especially in 30 or 50kmh zones. I understand where OP is coming from. I the odd time would go down a small road and come to a cross road for example. you go down the road and no sign displaying the speed limit. have to guess until, maybe miles and miles later, you find a speed sign and adjust speed. I know a certain village has a 30kmh zone and not a single vehicle obeys that limit simply because its too slow for the type of road (It goes from 100 -> 60 ->30). I could nearly run that speed flat out

    well if you learned the regulations you would know that if there is no sign the road you are turning onto is the same as the one you came out of (in a rural situation, 80km/h). If it was an N road with a 100 km/h limit this would be displayed after every side turning.


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    #41
    [Deleted User]
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    savagethegoat wrote: »
    If it was an N road with a 100 km/h limit this would be displayed after every side turning.


    My gut instinct is to say that's not true? :confused:

    This is actually something I've had in my head before, and I have to be honest and say that I never noticed a speed sign after every turn onto an N road...


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    #42
    marno21
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    The majority of N roads I've been on have regular repeater 100km/h signs.

    Quite often they're placed before bends or series of bends that can't be safely taken at anything over 60km/h


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    #43
    savagethegoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭savagethegoat


    those repeater signs you will find are in fact just after junctions with lower speed limit roads. Check it out, if you haven't realised this, your observational skills are below par.


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    #44
    Alun
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    savagethegoat wrote: »
    those repeater signs you will find are in fact just after junctions with lower speed limit roads. Check it out, if you haven't realised this, your observational skills are below par.

    Actually they're not always. I just did a quick Google Streetview along a road I know, the N81, and there are in fact several junctions without a repeater after them, including one where a side road joins literally a few meters after a reduction to 50km/h. Generally junctions with R roads are signed, but many lesser roads aren't.


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    #45
    keithclancy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,222 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    To be honest I just drive at the same pace as other traffic.


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    #46
    [Deleted User]
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    Alun wrote: »
    Actually they're not always. I just did a quick Google Streetview along a road I know, the N81, and there are in fact several junctions without a repeater after them, including one where a side road joins literally a few meters after a reduction to 50km/h. Generally junctions with R roads are signed, but many lesser roads aren't.


    Yeah, I just did the same thing, too. Just checked a handful of random locations around the country. Didn't seem to be the norm that there'd be a limit sign after a turn onto the N road?


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    #47
    Caliden
    Registered Users Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭Caliden


    If someone is going faster than you leave a 1/4 mile gap after them and keep an eye on their brake lights


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    #48
    duffman3833
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭duffman3833


    you would often get some decent people that will flash their headlights once speed van in area and you would slow down


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