Operation Slowdown - not!

Just drove from Naas to Lough Derg and then to Galway. Not a single Garda car or speed van on my 4 hour drive.
Its all hot air if you ask me.

qaswww

The objectives of the Operation are to raise awareness of the dangers of inappropriate and excessive speed,



job done

Mister Jingles

Its usually only a Dublin thing

Peregrine

Deleted User wrote: »

Its all hot air if you ask me.

Thank you Derek

Well that's that then.

doolox

...on the N81 just before the Tallaght section and the lead onto the M50.

At least 8 members holding up the traffic forcing people onto one lane on a dual carriageway so that the whole lot was brought to a halt and some 4 cars pulled into the side of the road "helping the police with their inquiries".

No sign of WHY this disruption was in place or any rational reason for it.

Just another revenue shake down delaying and harassing people while other people are being shot and killed two miles away........

This country badly needs a revolution.

Chucken

doolox wrote: »

...on the N81 just before the Tallaght section and the lead onto the M50.

At least 8 members holding up the traffic forcing people onto one lane on a dual carriageway so that the whole lot was brought to a halt and some 4 cars pulled into the side of the road "helping the police with their inquiries".

No sign of WHY this disruption was in place or any rational reason for it.

Just another revenue shake down delaying and harassing people while other people are being shot and killed two miles away........

This country badly needs a revolution.

Do you think maybe what I've highlighted above might be connected?

The Backwards Man

Chucken wrote: »

Do you think maybe what I've highlighted above might be connected?

Who the hell do you think you are with your rational thinking and reasonable assumptions? Columbo!!?

According to the Guards on the radio "every available resource has been deployed".
Not on the 400km of road I was on.

ballygowan1

What is the point in speed checking on Pembroke road? A 50km zone? I see the Gardai released information saying they caught a large number doing on 50km an hour.

Seriously this is not where the accidents happen. It is just easy pickings.

They really are a lazy bunch.

losthorizon

Deleted User wrote: »

According to the Guards on the radio "every available resource has been deployed".
Not on the 400km of road I was on.

I think you mean 260 km of road!

Peregrine

Deleted User wrote: »

According to the Guards on the radio "every available resource has been deployed".
Not on the 400km of road I was on.

Naas - Lough Derg - Galway isn't 400km, it's about 260-270km.

Ireland has around 1,000,000km of roads.

Chucken

Chucken wrote: »

Do you think maybe what I've highlighted above might be connected?

Well if the plan was to slow down the traffic, they succeeded!
But the real objective is of course to remind drivers that they actually exist and to aid the revenue in tax collection.

Capt'n Midnight

losthorizon wrote: »

I think you mean 260 km of road!

Not if you take detours to avoid the checkpoints

Chucken

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Who the hell do you think you are with your rational thinking and reasonable assumptions? Columbo!!?

More Jessica Fletcher Id say :cool:;)

The Backwards Man

Chucken wrote: »

More Jessica Fletcher Id say :cool:;)

Yeah, but I was trying not to imply you were a nosy old busybody who brought bad luck everywhere she went.:o:pac:

Micky Dolenz

Don't drink/drug drive.

Don't speed or be a dick on the road.

Problem solved.

Mint Sauce

Deleted User wrote: »

Just drove from Naas to Lough Derg and then to Galway. Not a single Garda car or speed van on my 4 hour drive.
Its all hot air if you ask me.

I seen two on my 15 minute drive home.

Chucken

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Yeah, but I was trying not to imply you were a nosy old busybody who brought bad luck everywhere she went.:o:pac:

Oh! So instead you implied I was a hunched over old man in a tatty raincoat, with a gammy eye!

Gee thanks

carzony

Well according to my facebook 'checkpoint information' page there has been checkpoints and speed vans all over the place today, and very unusually I just seen a traffic core mondeo creep down my road, I'v no tax so I won't be moving till tuesday

carzony

oops, just heard there was a bomb scare, which would explain the traffic core presence :o:o

Son Of A Vidic

Deleted User wrote: »

Just drove from Naas to Lough Derg and then to Galway. Not a single Garda car or speed van on my 4 hour drive.
Its all hot air if you ask me.

You're obviously not aware that unmarked cars are used quite often. I actually passed a speed trap on the M6 (on Friday morning), one unmarked car was positioned at the on ramp at junction 19. Checking cars driving out of Galway toward Dublin.

Wattle

Garda checkpoint in Rathfarnham tonight. Probably not speed related though.

Victor

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Naas - Lough Derg - Galway isn't 400km, it's about 260-270km.

Well, that depends: http://maps.google.ie/maps?saddr=Naas&daddr=Lough+Derg,+Donegal+to:galway&hl=en&sll=52.961481,-8.820529&sspn=0.843746,2.705383&geocode=FdUULAMdFGOa_ymfG6lwlnhnSDGwcjGXqccACg%3BFYJZQQMdUNKH_ymJlsBiAbJfSDGRUxDFwdVifw%3BFR_YLAMdZM51_yn_Wy1alZNbSDGBUkkKRBsrAw&oq=ough+derg,+don&mra=ls&t=m&z=8

Ireland has around 1,000,000km of roads.

100,000km

ballygowan1 wrote: »

What is the point in speed checking on Pembroke road? A 50km zone? I see the Gardai released information saying they caught a large number doing on 50km an hour.

Seriously this is not where the accidents happen. It is just easy pickings.

Are there not people in the city? Do pedestrians and cyclists not get hit by cars and trucks?

sligojoek

Which Lough Derg was it?

There were two Gosafe/Gatsos on the open road between Sligo and Bundoran all afternoon. With the amount of traffic heading for the Roryfest in Ballyshannon, it was like shooting fish in a barrel.

Peregrine

Victor wrote: »

100,000km

Oops :pac:

ShagNastii

Two cop cars and a speed van on my trip down from Dublin to Kilmore Quay last night. The N11 was noticeably slower. The stream of traffic creeped down at a steady pace (clearly due to warnings of Garda presence).

Uncle Gaybo and the RSA can be tough to listen to but the sooner the roads are littered with cameras (like the UK) the quicker the issue of excessive speeding will be solved.

Capt'n Midnight

ShagNastii wrote: »

Uncle Gaybo and the RSA can be tough to listen to but the sooner the roads are littered with cameras (like the UK) the quicker the issue of excessive speeding will be solved.

Average speed cameras would be more effective, especially if they do a number plate display at the second one.

Pacing Mule

Trip from D15 to Blessington earlier this morning encountered 3 seperate speed traps.

zaph.

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Its usually only a Dublin thing

Even though the majority of crashes in ireland happen outside the pale.


'Shooting _______ in ___ barrel'

You know the rest.......