Garda Traffic on Twitter

thesandeman

If he drove in the proper direction he'd never be noticed.
It's the Waterford version of Groundhog Day.

Samuel T. Cogley

thesandeman wrote: »

If he drove in the proper direction he'd never be noticed.
It's the Waterford version of Groundhog Day.

That's something I never understand - some of these it's so obvious they've drawn a massive amount of attention to themselves. For flips sake why?

Commotion Ocean

thesandeman wrote: »

If he drove in the proper direction he'd never be noticed.
It's the Waterford version of Groundhog Day.

Wonder would they stop cyclists going the wrong way up a one-way street.

OldMrBrennan83

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Fred Swanson

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uck51js9zml2yt

vintagevrs wrote: »

Continue being the important word here, as often they then sit at the same speed when the limit is 100 again. Speeding in built up areas and causing tailbacks on national roads. Best of both.

Drove up from Kerry this evening and was stuck behind a Muppet doing 60 in a 100 zone from templeglantine to near adare. I finally got opportunity to overtake!

liam7831

Saanvi Tender Witchcraft wrote: »

Drove up from Kerry this evening and was stuck behind a Muppet doing 60 in a 100 zone from templeglantine to near adare. I finally got opportunity to overtake!

Did you take it ?

St. Leibowitz

dfeo wrote: »

Wonder would they stop cyclists going the wrong way up a one-way street.

Been quite a few prosecutions for that. So yes.

Commotion Ocean

St. Leibowitz wrote: »

Been quite a few prosecutions for that. So yes.

They should cut the bike in half with an angle grinder, teach them a lesson.

Samuel T. Cogley

dfeo wrote: »

They should cut the bike in half with an angle grinder, teach them a lesson.

Just pop it in the back of a car that's getting crushed for no tax.

liam7831

Slash the tyres

Commotion Ocean

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Just pop it in the back of a car that's getting crushed for no tax.

Motorist not paying tax for their vehicle is not as bad as a wanker cyclist breaking red lights and salmoning the wrong way up streets.

The former is illegal the latter is both dangerous AND illegal.

Samuel T. Cogley

dfeo wrote: »

Motorist not paying tax for their vehicle is not as bad as a wanker cyclist breaking red lights and salmoning the wrong way up streets.

What about a motorist heading the wrong-way up a one way street? Angle grinder?

Commotion Ocean

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

What about a motorist heading the wrong-way up a one way street? Angle grinder?

Yes, damage their car too.

There is a much higher percentage of these absolute vermin on bikes breaking red lights and salmoning compared to motorists though. These lower forms of life think they can break rules with impunity, until they end up under the wheel of a bus and suddenly the tiny violins come out and the lycra fools on the cycling forum piss on about how we need to make the roads safer for cyclists.

boardsuser1

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

What about a motorist heading the wrong-way up a one way street? Angle grinder?

Get out the jaws of life or a con saw might suffice.

OldMrBrennan83

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Commotion Ocean

It's be great if the traffic lights were all manned remotely with a machine gun, break a red light on a bike, bullet in your head.

mode note, user banned

Samuel T. Cogley

dfeo wrote: »

It's be great if the traffic lights were all manned remotely with a machine gun, break a red light on a bike, bullet in your head.

As an aside my wife was at a conference and ended up meeting with some of the guys that control Dublin traffic lights. She could have told be she'd gone on to have an affair with 5 of them and was not pregnant with triplets and I'd still manged to have moved on from the point that had me in slack-jawed astonishment:

"Someone 'controls' Dublin's traffic lights?!"

Commotion Ocean

Weepsie wrote: »

You're wrong. Motorists on phones, breaking lights, speeding, using bus lanes, reversing out of driveways, not signalling, dangerous passing, tailgating.. all add up to the innumerable number of wrongs committed./QUOTE]

That's because there's more motorists on the road. Most cyclists I observe break red lights, salmon, go up on footpaths etc.

in terms of percentages, there are a much higher percentage of law-breakers among cyclists than motorists.

Samuel T. Cogley

Does this thread or twitter effect your driving? I have to say after seeing it I may slow down a bit and be a bit more circumspect at lights.

(desperate attempt to get back on topic)

Samuel T. Cogley

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Does this thread or twitter effect your driving? I have to say after seeing it I may slow down a bit and be a bit more circumspect at lights.

Well I'm forever speeding, to be honest. Especially on motorways, but rarely anything above 130 (a speed quick enough to get me home that wee bit faster, but not have Gardai assembling roadblocks ahead of me and putting the spike strips out).

I do sometimes look at some of the speeds that are being done and wonder are they (the Gardai) being fair. For example, If you're plodding along at 140 on the Motorway at 3pm and weaving in and out of cars, hat's off to the Gardai for nailing you. If it's 4am and you're the only car on the road, kinda seems a bit trivial and i lose a bit of respect for the Gardai that nail someone for it.

So I do look at a lot of these twitter posts and wonder, especially where speeding is concerned, how fair they're being.

(for example, there are roads that are marked 50, that you'd very easily do 120 on, as they go through tiny, one-street villages, from 100km N roads either side. I could fully understand someone keeping their 100 speed up going through these roads at 3am, but on the twitter machine it looks really dramatic to have "traveling 100 in a 50" even though the roads and cars are well capable of it.)


It's good to see them getting people for no Tax/Ins/NCT, though.

I think the biggest affect this thread will have on most boardsies is that they'll know they're alright without tax/ins/nct so long as they never go into Naas.

Samuel T. Cogley

I'm a dick with the speed on motorways. My car doesn't do much more than a ton and I'd just floor it - came a cropper on the M50 one night (3am or so) with a following wind and downhill stretch, guard was very unimpressed but let me off with a warning.

Definitely going to slow down a bit (not that I go mad 60 in a clear 50 on the Howth road, 70 in the 60 on the same road for example) on the built up stretches and stop rushing for the lights.

uck51js9zml2yt

liam7831 wrote: »

Did you take it ?

I did
Only squad car I saw was.going down.Friday at Nenagh. I was 120, he should have gotten a FPN and court to follow!

No lights or sirens.

Weepsie

Weepsie wrote: »

You're wrong. Motorists on phones, breaking lights, speeding, using bus lanes, reversing out of driveways, not signalling, dangerous passing, tailgating.. all add up to the innumerable number of wrongs committed./QUOTE]

That's because there's more motorists on the road. Most cyclists I observe break red lights, salmon, go up on footpaths etc.

in terms of percentages, there are a much higher percentage of law-breakers among cyclists than motorists.

Only a few posts above is a mod instruction to stop this. Consider this a final warning. Continuation of said chat will result in a thread ban.

tossy

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Does this thread or twitter effect your driving? I have to say after seeing it I may slow down a bit and be a bit more circumspect at lights.

(desperate attempt to get back on topic)

It doesn't effect my driving but i decided to go out and get the car insured

fancy pigeon

The 3 series is back on the feed and the rigid non rigid truck too... Running out of material?

Wonder was it the night before or coming home from the pub...
https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/830516140703088642

biko

People, please don't just dump links in here.

Add a little note what the link concerns so we don't get the same tweets posted over and over.

punisher5112

Cat digger on transporter over 100 ton no permit..

https://mobile.twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/831097342178762752?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

punisher5112

Motorists stranded above tallaght in the snow.

https://mobile.twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/831102984784314368?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

joujoujou

punisher5112 wrote: »

Motorists stranded above tallaght in the snow.

https://mobile.twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/831102984784314368?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

No winter tyres, obviously. :cool: