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Speed Limit Question

  • 12-07-2010 11:27am
    #1
    djimi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,237 ✭✭✭✭


    Can a road have different speed limits depending on the direction you are travelling? I ask this because a road I drive on quite regularly (the road out of Kill towards Naas for those who know it) that is marked as being 80km/h as you leave the village heading towards Naas, but as you approach the village from Naas on the same road there is a 60km/h sign on the slip road off the motorway, and no other speed limit sign until you enter Kill which would suggest that the road is 60km/h.

    So is it possible that this road is 80km/h outbound and 60km/h inbound? I have always though that a speed limit applies to the road in both directions, but maybe I have been wrong in thinking this?


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  • #2
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Sure it can - one side of a road may have conditions necessitating a lower limit than the other. For example, should there be a lower limit before a blind bend or after it?


  • #3
    talkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭talkin


    it can have diff speed limits inbound and outbound. eg,when your leaving city speed increases,and entering city speed decreases


  • #4
    cjt156
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭cjt156


    Yes. It used to be the case that the limit applied to the roadway in both directions. This was updated at the same time the limits changed from mph to km/h, or shortly after.


  • #5
    djimi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,237 ✭✭✭✭djimi


    Fair enough, Im probably wrong so! I always thought in the case of a blind bend the limit was lowered on both sides of the bend, but thats probably because Ive never come across a sitation where its been different.


  • #6
    djimi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,237 ✭✭✭✭djimi


    cjt156 wrote: »
    Yes. It used to be the case that the limit applied to the roadway in both directions. This was updated at the same time the limits changed from mph to km/h, or shortly after.

    Ah that must have been what threw me, cheers. Time to re-read the rules of the road methinks... :o


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  • #7
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    djimi wrote: »
    Fair enough, Im probably wrong so! I always thought in the case of a blind bend the limit was lowered on both sides of the bend, but thats probably because Ive never come across a sitation where its been different.
    It would be lowered on both sides entering the bend, but that's at two different places depending on your direction of travel.;)


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