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airport - speed limit just before m50 sth on exit?

  • 01-12-2013 5:32pm
    #1
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    Hi, was exiting airport today around 5pm -well had exited it and was out of last roundabout up towards m50 sth lane and there was a jobsworth hero guard with a camera. anybody know what the speed-limit is around there. it's confusing enough with all the lanes-streaming signs that you're never going to see a speed sign in any case. I was probably going 65kph - no more.


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  • #2
    CiniO
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    If that's the same place I've seen him last month, then limit is 60km/h.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    ffs. fish in a barrel. is there a 10% leeway or no? bloody heroes.


  • #4
    corktina
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    doing his job and fair play to him.

    If you were really only doing 65 then you probably will be OK


  • #5
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    corktina wrote: »
    doing his job and fair play to him.

    If you were really only doing 65 then you probably will be OK

    would he have flagged signalled if I was over? doing his job etc etc. but hardly a fatality blackspot is it. only reason they are there is that it's high traffic volume and due to the road layout it's confusing and guaranteed to get a quota.


  • #6
    NuckingFacker
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    They're always there - the limit is way lower than the approach so it's like shooting fish in a barrel - pure oppurtunism as there's feck all crashes on that stretch, it's just revenue gathering.


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  • #7
    NuckingFacker
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    OSI wrote: »
    Yes, what with all the tourists that are new to driving in Ireland and the many people that would make the trip there once in a few years only, it's disgraceful of a Gard to be making sure the locals are behaving themselves at a time of year when the airport gets busy again and the weather gets ****. What a jobsworth!!
    They're there at all times and all times of the year. The speed limit there is out of kilter with the location and it is a wide open, safe stretch of good road. But whatever, you think its great, I don't. There you go. I've driven down it hundreds of times, I've never been ticketed, but I've seen dozens get a fine for driving "too fast" there. I just think it's a bad place to set up a speed trap, but tbh, I can't say I can think of a good place for one either. Safety is a great catch-all, you can't argue against "safety". Someone has to think of the children.


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    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    They're there at all times and all times of the year. The speed limit there is out of kilter with the location and it is a wide open, safe stretch of good road. But whatever, you think its great, I don't. There you go. I've driven down it hundreds of times, I've never been ticketed, but I've seen dozens get a fine for driving "too fast" there. I just think it's a bad place to set up a speed trap, but tbh, I can't say I can think of a good place for one either. Safety is a great catch-all, you can't argue against "safety". Someone has to think of the children.

    OP here. Very rarely drive out to the airport as usually get taxi or aircoach etc. so not familiar with it from that perspective and happened to be dropping someone off today. If you're rarely driving there I find the lane-streaming to demand all your attention to get to the right place and it the dark in the winter all your attention is on this aspect with no vision focus to see a small speed sign. it's bs and epitomises the attitude in Ireland of the cops where it's easier to screw a law-abiding tax-paying citizen who's paying the salaries and pensions of these jobsworths by setting up a camera where nobody has ever been in a serious car-accident (so no real safety angle) and where the only plus-point is from the point-of-view of the ease of catching people.


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