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Who puts out the cones?

  • 28-11-2016 3:19pm
    #1
    corblimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭


    I keep seeing cars (broken down?) at the side of the road, and the new thing now seems to be a trail of traffic cones behind them as a warning to other road users. I like it, but I wonder who actually does it. I'm assuming someone like the AA comes out to the stricken motorist, can't help them so sets out the cones and gives them a lift home. Or is it a garda thing? Am i right in thinking this has only started happening recently, or is it because I tend to see it more on fast roads, and it's may some sort of NRA policy?


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  • #2
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,764 ✭✭✭cml387


    Possibly the motorway maintenance people.


  • #3
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,702 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    I doubt if the AA leaves their cones sitting on motorways, they are basically a private recovery company and have no brief to do anything other than make a profit. I have seen single cones behind abandoned cars on motorways, it's a useful indicator to oncoming traffic that the car isn't moving any time soon so you don't have to worry that it's some idiot who pulled over to take a call and is liable to pull back into the traffic whenever he pleases.


  • #4
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,853 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    Yup the motorway recovery crowd put them down, its for when it turns dark so people dont run into a parked car in the hard shoulder.


  • #5
    johnk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭johnk123


    I've seen this a lot on the M/N7. Some mornings, very early I notice a car with no cones. The next morning, tah-dahhhh... cones! I had assumed Gardai or Motorway maintenance guys. Have also seen Garda cars pulling up to take a look at one of these abandoned/broken down cars on several occasions.


  • #6
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    On a motorway it should be an automatic towing if car breaks down


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  • #7
    Kimbot
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    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    On a motorway it should be an automatic towing if car breaks down

    Yes but in the case of the M7 yesterday at 11am from Laois to Dublin I seen 4 cars broken down at the side of the road, 2 covered in cones and 2 only just broken down with a tow truck there with them. There may not be enough motorway tow trucks to pick all the cars up on the same day in fairness.


  • #8
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Cone Gnomes? Put out cones, ?, profit!


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