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Speed limit question

  • 02-05-2011 6:13pm
    #1
    tonydude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭


    Question on speed limit around Mitchelstown. Ok i was coming off the M8 from Cork to Mitchelstown, drove up the slip road and passed an 80 km sign right before a roundabout. I took the first exit to Mitchelstown. There is no speed sign on this road ( its the N8) from the roundabout to mitchelstown about mile of road. So what would the official limit be, reason im asking is there was a speed van there :eek: and was going 100kmph.



    Mods couldnt find proper thread for this , please fix if in wrong area


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  • #2
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    its 80 km/h as i think you suspect...it's not an N road anymore....that fecker nearly got me as I booted past a coach who kindly tipped the RH indicator causing me to brake and thus be saved. Thx unknown BE Driver, I owe you one.


  • #3
    James Jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭James Jones


    tonydude wrote: »
    passed an 80 km sign
    None of the other details are in any way relevant. When you pass a speed limit sign, that speed limit is the one that applies until you pass another sign.


  • #4
    coco0981
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭coco0981


    almost definate this stretch is 100km coming from mitchelstown back to the m8 roundabout. Is it possible that the one stretch has 2 separate limits, i.e 80km m8 to mitchelstown and 100 km mitchelstown to m8


  • #5
    vectra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,626 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    I am sure it is 100 from Mitchelstown roundabout 1 to the roundabout 2


  • #6
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    If nothing is posted after the 80 sign then it is 80. Pure & simple.


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  • #7
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Yes, The old N8 R639 is 100km from J13 to the 1st roundabout at Mitchelstown but after that on the Ring Road its 80km to the Mallow road N73 roundabout.

    I passed the van there a few weeks ago and I didnt get any fine anyway.


  • #8
    Bigcheeze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Bigcheeze


    Samara Tart Handgun wrote: »
    If nothing is posted after the 80 sign then it is 80. Pure & simple.

    Not necessarily. It sounds like the the 80kmh limit was on the slip road before the roundabout so the op was on a different road after the roundabout.


  • #9
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    http://www.corkcoco.ie/speedlimits/r639-fermoy-to-mitchelstown-08-mitc-01a.pdf


    Its 100km alright


  • #10
    tonydude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭tonydude


    Bigcheeze wrote: »
    Not necessarily. It sounds like the the 80kmh limit was on the slip road before the roundabout so the op was on a different road after the roundabout.

    Exactly, its causing a lot of debate around here cause theres no signs and that van is always there.


  • #11
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Bigcheeze wrote: »
    Not necessarily. It sounds like the the 80kmh limit was on the slip road before the roundabout so the op was on a different road after the roundabout.

    If you join a road from a slip and there is no further posting then the posting on the slip holds. Just as joining any road the limit is that which was last posted on your route. Maybe this stretch is missing a posting.


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  • #12
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,239 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Samara Tart Handgun wrote: »
    If you join a road from a slip and there is no further posting then the posting on the slip holds. Just as joining any road the limit is that which was last posted on your route. Maybe this stretch is missing a posting.
    Unless, its incorrectly marked, in which case anyone punished for speeding betweem 80 & 100km/h will be refunded.


  • #13
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    its marked 80 k on the mway slip and thens theres nothing until half way down the straight bit where there is a 100k repeater sign that looks like its a left over from the N8 days.....


  • #14
    letsbehonest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭letsbehonest


    That road is the N73 now! As far as I know the speed limit is 100km/h in that section simply because there is only a 100 sign at the other side of the road when you exit the town so it a 100%. I also live in Mitchelstown and we constantly drive past speed vans there doing 100km/h and we have never heard anything from them!


  • #15
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    no it isnt..its the R673 (or somesuch number) The N73 (if it has been extended )would run from the mallow turn north to the next M8 junction.


  • #16
    letsbehonest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭letsbehonest


    corktina wrote: »
    no it isnt..its the R673 (or somesuch number) The N73 (if it has been extended )would run from the mallow turn north to the next M8 junction.
    http://maps.google.ie/maps?rlz=1C1SVED_enIE408&q=mitchelstown&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Mitchelstown,+Co.+Cork&gl=ie&ei=eEfMTYqjKZGwhQfSqvyoAg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CCEQ8gEwAA
    Clearly marked on Google maps that it is the N73!


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