Red Light

TheAdamstown1

Hi,

Situation I had today, that I’m presuming I don’t have a leg to stand on.

Near where I live in Adamstown, there a is set of lights on road with one Junction off the lights. However that road off the Junction is blocked off with fence and items, (looks like a load of steel) behind the fence. A short distance behind this dense the road is dug up etc. This road has been like this for weeks if not months.

However the lights still switch to red, actually turn red more often since the fence was put up. so in affect the lights are not functioning as they should.

So the vast majority of local residents, just drive through the junction when on red. If you stood and watched for a few minutes this would happens.

So I drove through them, but unbeknownst to me had a Garda in plain car behind me. So have been reported, expecting a fine and points potentially. Which technically is correct but feels very wrong. The road is straight, visibility was perfect, no pedestrians around and not speeding.

Is it worth appealing? Sorry if wrong location.

callaway92

Not worth appealing.

GM228

The law requires you to stop, end of, it is not subject to any conditions etc.

Failure to stop because there are no pedestrians, it's a straight road etc is no ground to appeal.

gwalk

You knowingly drove through a red light

Dont see what your issue is here at all

Peregrinus

Not worth appealing.

If you're bothered, you can take up with your councillor the quest of whether the lights are still functioning and ask if they can be decommissioned until the junction is reopened. The answer may be that the lights still have significance as a facilitator for pedestrians crossing the road.