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Motorway speed limits in Ireland

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  • #122
    M94
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 88 ✭✭M94


    Ginger83 wrote: »
    Where does it state 120km/hr is a target and anyone driving below it is wrong?
    ffs


    In driving exams in most civilized countries around the world. Drive too slow and you fail your test for disrupting the flow of traffic.


  • #123
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    Decrease them to 110 km/h
    M94 wrote: »
    In driving exams in most civilized countries around the world. Drive too slow and you fail your test for disrupting the flow of traffic.

    20km/hr below the speed limit is NOT slow


  • #124
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    Decrease them to 110 km/h
    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    Wow 216km/hr I am shocked that the engine in his car didn't explode from the stress :rolleyes:

    Wow a user telling a mod to stay on topic :D


  • #125
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Ginger83 wrote: »
    Maybe you should talk to your local TD about us slow folks and have a minimum speed set....but there is 1...its 50km/hr.

    Safe motoring.
    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    What are you scuttering on about Gaybo?
    Ginger83 wrote: »
    Read the 3rd line on that big blue sign on entering a motorway and come back to me.
    Vehicles need to be CAPABLE of 50kmph, they do not necessarily need to exceed that and sure any way,
    Ginger83 wrote: »
    Where does it state 120km/hr is a target and anyone driving below it is wrong?
    ffs
    you'd could say the same about an imaginary lower limit .... it's not a target.
    Ginger83 wrote: »
    20km/hr below the speed limit is NOT slow
    It's enough to fail your driving test on "adequate progress". Your tester would regard you as inadequate.


  • #126
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    Decrease them to 110 km/h
    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Vehicles need to be CAPABLE of 50kmph, they do not necessarily need to exceed that and sure any way,
    you'd could say the same about an imaginary lower limit .... it's not a target.


    It's enough to fail your driving test on "adequate progress". Your tester would regard you as inadequate.

    100km/hr in a 120km/hr zone inadequate, i've heard it all now


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  • #127
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ocWVgmkUSk


  • #128
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    Decrease them to 110 km/h
    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    I am staying on topic as it was mentioned in here. I had an Audi TT but I didn't dare to go into sixth gear due to the fear. When driving I have come up with an equation of:

    Irish Safety Indicated Speed = (highest gear -1) + (Speed limit x .80 )

    The lower this number the better, so I think I may get a 3 speed manual for my next car to reduce the number. I am going to use the acronym ISIS for short, time will tell if it catches on. I am going to send it onto the RSA later today.

    Unconstructive smart arse comments is not really on topic....from a mod


  • #129
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Ginger83 wrote: »
    Unconstructive smart arse comments is not really on topic....from a mod
    Boohoo.
    Do you think he should be going faster? Or slower?


  • #130
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    Decrease them to 110 km/h
    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ocWVgmkUSk

    http://www.rsa.ie/en/RSA/Learner-Drivers/Your-learner-permit/Rules-of-the-road/


  • #131
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    Decrease them to 110 km/h
    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Boohoo.
    Do you think he should be going faster? Or slower?[/QUOTE

    Anywhere within the limit.


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  • #132
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Raise to 140 km/h
    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    What are you scuttering on about Gaybo?

    I had to stop myself from bursting out laughing in the office :D


  • #133
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,528 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Ginger83 wrote: »
    Are you trying to compare our idiotic 2 lane motorways with Germany's autobahn :rolleyes:
    There are lots of 2 lane autobahns, some of them unrestricted, so I'm not sure what your point is there.


  • #134
    dodzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,329 ✭✭✭✭dodzy


    Ginger83 wrote: »
    20km/hr below the speed limit is NOT slow
    It bloody well is if you're in a '30'.


  • #135
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    Decrease them to 110 km/h
    dodzy wrote: »
    It bloody well is if you're in a '30'.

    We are discussing motorway speeds!


  • #136
    dodzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,329 ✭✭✭✭dodzy


    Ginger83 wrote: »
    We are discussing motorway speeds!
    Relax the pant's man, couldn't resist :D


  • #137
    Brian Scan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭Brian Scan


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    What are you scuttering on about Gaybo?
    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    One more cowboy episode from Dublin Coach and I'm getting a dash cam. Driving a bus like it's a sports car just skip 10 cars at a roundabout, forcing gullible idiots to jam on the brakes to force themselves back into the correct and obvious lane they should have been in all along.
    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    Boohoo.
    Do you think he should be going faster? Or slower?

    :D:D


  • #138
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,051 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    Mc Love wrote: »
    I had to stop myself from bursting out laughing in the office :D

    You must be one of those overpaid 'entitled' civil servants if your boardsing during work.:p


  • #139
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Brian Scan wrote: »
    :D:D

    You've highlighted random words. And put in an emojii.

    Just trying out the new mac book or do you have a point based on a tragic misinterpretation in there?


  • #140
    Brian Scan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭Brian Scan


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    You've highlighted random words. And put in an emojii.

    Just trying out the new mac book or do you have a point based on a tragic misinterpretation in there?

    No.


  • #141
    Commotion Ocean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Commotion Ocean


    chicorytip wrote: »
    120 K.P.H. or 75 M.P.H. is a dangerously high speed limit for roads such as the M7,M9 etc.which are, in effect, dual carriageways not motorways.
    55 M.P.H. is a sufficiently progressive rate for all drivers to complete journeys on time and in a relaxed frame of mind.

    I didn't know Gay Byrne was on boards


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  • #142
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    Decrease them to 110 km/h
    chicorytip wrote: »
    120 K.P.H. or 75 M.P.H. is a dangerously high speed limit for roads such as the M7,M9 etc.which are, in effect, dual carriageways not motorways.
    55 M.P.H. is a sufficiently progressive rate for all drivers to complete journeys on time and in a relaxed frame of mind.

    I agree, there's little time to be gained doing an extra 20km/hr.
    (unless you have the mod's Audi) :rolleyes:


  • #143
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    Decrease them to 110 km/h
    dfeo wrote: »
    I didn't know Gay Byrne was on boards

    very constructive


  • #144
    Commotion Ocean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Commotion Ocean


    Ginger83 wrote: »
    very constructive

    Thanks ging :)


  • #145
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Ginger83 wrote: »
    So are you saying a truck doing 90km/hr is a hazard? Whats the right hand lane for?
    What about 1L cars? My wife has 1 and i wouldnt do 120km/hr in it, it'd blow up.

    Nonsense, driving a 1 liter Chevy Spark and a Renault Twingo, also one milk carton. Both fine at 120 and eben 140. What miserable biscuit tin can't do 120? Unless you drive a 2CV...


  • #146
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    I just noticed in the post that dr.fuzz quoted.... Ginger83 is a MAN???? Not an ould wan?


  • #147
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Raise to 140 km/h
    Odyssey 2005 wrote: »
    You must be one of those overpaid 'entitled' civil servants if your boardsing during work.:p

    If only :(


  • #148
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    Decrease them to 110 km/h
    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    Nonsense, driving a 1 liter Chevy Spark and a Renault Twingo, also one milk carton. Both fine at 120 and eben 140. What miserable biscuit tin can't do 120? Unless you drive a 2CV...

    I never said they couldn't do 120km'hr, i just said it wouldn't be good for it.


  • #149
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Ginger83 wrote: »
    I never said they couldn't do 120km'hr, i just said it wouldn't be good for it.

    Fair enough.


  • #150
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    Decrease them to 110 km/h
    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    I just noticed in the post that dr.fuzz quoted.... Ginger83 is a MAN???? Not an ould wan?

    But sure whats that got to do with anything?? Male/Female/Age...it makes no difference. I drive a 2L car, will be changing to a 3L in the new year. I'll just choose to drive at a safe comfortable speed.


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  • #151
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    Decrease them to 110 km/h
    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    Fair enough.

    Would you not agree?


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