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neris · 10-10-2016 08:16PM

I see they caught another bike in Galway doing 135 in a 50. Cant link from Twitter on phone

quadrifoglio verde · 10-10-2016 08:28PM

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/785547117104402433

Car doing twice the speed limit for the road in question.
Only gets a fcpn.
I have an issue with this. Do 100 in 50 zone, you get a fcpn. Do 165 instead of 120 you get arrested for dangerous driving.
Dangerous driving for doing 35% above the speed limit, fcpn for doing over 100% above the limit.

A car travelling twice the speed limit on a road where there's pedestrians and heavy traffic changing across multiple lanes is much more dangerous than a car travelling at 33% above the speed limit on an empty motorway

10-10-2016 08:32PM

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/785547117104402433

Car doing twice the speed limit for the road in question.
Only gets a fcpn.
I have an issue with this. Do 100 in 50 zone, you get a fcpn. Do 165 instead of 120 you get arrested for dangerous driving.
Dangerous driving for doing 35% above the speed limit, fcpn for doing over 100% above the limit.

A car travelling twice the speed limit on a road where there's pedestrians and heavy traffic changing across multiple lanes is much more dangerous than a car travelling at 33% above the speed limit on an empty motorway

If you knew that road you would know 50kmh is a joke and it should be much higher. Most people do 100kmh on the bridge.

marno21 · 10-10-2016 08:33PM

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/785547117104402433

Car doing twice the speed limit for the road in question.
Only gets a fcpn.
I have an issue with this. Do 100 in 50 zone, you get a fcpn. Do 165 instead of 120 you get arrested for dangerous driving.
Dangerous driving for doing 35% above the speed limit, fcpn for doing over 100% above the limit.

A car travelling twice the speed limit on a road where there's pedestrians and heavy traffic changing across multiple lanes is much more dangerous than a car travelling at 33% above the speed limit on an empty motorway

A motorway is a grade seperated high speed road with a central median to prevent headons. All motor traffic - no peds/cyclists

The Quincentenary Bridge is a narrow bridge with lanes built for 50km/h running (possibly 60km/h but a lower limit for cyclists and pedestrians). Oncoming traffic is seperated by a narrow white line. 103km/h here is many times more dangerous.

phelixoflaherty · 10-10-2016 08:37PM

Golfgorfield wrote:

I think its Germany where you must have a full set of replacement bulbs in the car, and if stopped you must replace the blown one before being allowed to continue?

I,d love to see you change a front light on a Renault Modus.
I have it down to 20 minutes

Jesus. · 10-10-2016 08:45PM

Kenna Vast Protein wrote: »

My mothers ford Ka was the first car I drove on the road, was 00 I think and I could hit a little over 90mph.

That's speedo though. The Cops nabbed the Micra doing 100 genuine

bazz26 · 10-10-2016 10:03PM

Bike caught doing 135 kph on the same bridge:

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/785546534242938880

Vic_08 · 10-10-2016 10:22PM

marno21 wrote: »

A motorway is a grade seperated high speed road with a central median to prevent headons. All motor traffic - no peds/cyclists

The Quincentenary Bridge is a narrow bridge with lanes built for 50km/h running (possibly 60km/h but a lower limit for cyclists and pedestrians). Oncoming traffic is seperated by a narrow white line. 103km/h here is many times more dangerous.

Narrow bridge. :rolleyes:

It is 4 lanes plus cycle lanes and pavements both sides and a long distance between junctions with no entrances between. There are thousands of miles of 100kph roads with just a line to separate carriageways.

That bridge should be at least 60, preferably 80. There are far too many ultra low speed limits that make a mockery of the entire thing, limits should be appropriate to the specific roads not blanket low limits just because.

marno21 · 10-10-2016 10:30PM

Vic_08 wrote: »

Narrow bridge. :rolleyes:

It is 4 lanes plus cycle lanes and pavements both sides and a long distance between junctions with no entrances between. There are thousands of miles of 100kph roads with just a line to separate carriageways.

That bridge should be at least 60, preferably 80. There are far too many ultra low speed limits that make a mockery of the entire thing, limits should be appropriate to the specific roads not blanket low limits just because.

Apologies, I meant to say "bridge with narrow lanes", e.g. it has narrow lanes because of the amount of space taken up by the cycle lanes and footpaths.

I'm not sure if it would get a limit much higher than 60km/h due to the above. It is true 50km/h is a bit low seeing as the roads around the bridge are underpassed. However, it is still not suitable for anywhere near 100km/h running.

inforfun · 11-10-2016 07:06AM

Bridges like that are like the Maastunnel in Rotterdam.
When i started driving that tunnel had a motorway sign at the entrance and had a 100 km/h limit.
Although being in the city where of course 50 km/h is the limit. reasom more or less was due to bad ventilation (tunnel is old was opened the day Hitler on Tour came to visit The Netherlands) they wanted you to get out of there as quick as possible.
So for years i blasted through that thing 15/20x a week.

And then lowered the limit to 50 km/h, left the motorway sign up for a while to add to the confusion.
Put in a couple of speed cameras and .... kaaaaa ching.

Constant braking by people because going down is quite steep and you dont want to break that 50 makes that tunnel even more of an hell as when it was 100 km/h

tossy · 11-10-2016 08:41AM

inforfun wrote: »

Bridges like that are like the Maastunnel in Rotterdam.
When i started driving that tunnel had a motorway sign at the entrance and had a 100 km/h limit.
Although being in the city where of course 50 km/h is the limit. reasom more or less was due to bad ventilation (tunnel is old was opened the day Hitler on Tour came to visit The Netherlands) they wanted you to get out of there as quick as possible.
So for years i blasted through that thing 15/20x a week.

And then lowered the limit to 50 km/h, left the motorway sign up for a while to add to the confusion.
Put in a couple of speed cameras and .... kaaaaa ching.

Constant braking by people because going down is quite steep and you dont want to break that 50 makes that tunnel even more of an hell as when it was 100 km/h

In fairness.. This could be Rotterdam or anywhere Liverpool or Rome ...

I'll get my coat

jca · 11-10-2016 08:57AM

tossy wrote: »

In fairness.. This could be Rotterdam or anywhere Liverpool or Rome ...

I'll get my coat

Ha ha, it came into my head too..

RustyNut · 11-10-2016 10:39AM

Kenna Vast Protein wrote: »

If you knew that road you would know 50kmh is a joke and it should be much higher. Most people do 100kmh on the bridge.

Most ridiculous speed limit in the country imo.

tossy · 11-10-2016 10:55AM

RustyNut wrote: »

Most ridiculous speed limit in the country imo.

That it definitely is not.

dastardly00 · 11-10-2016 11:09AM

No license, tax, insurance, or NCT... the full jackpot!

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/785549045146189824

Cheensbo · 11-10-2016 11:11AM

That model Almera should by right have the highest insurance loading in the country, they're always either as rough as a bag of hammers or else being driven without any form of decoration.

Scrap em all I say, for the good of the country

11-10-2016 03:28PM

RustyNut wrote: »

Most ridiculous speed limit in the country imo.

It's close but that award goes to a road a few mins away from the bridge, bothar na dtreabh which also has a 50km/h limit. Probably the worlds most ridiculous speed limit.

duffman3833 · 11-10-2016 03:50PM

Kenna Vast Protein wrote: »

It's close but that award goes to a road a few mins away from the bridge, bothar na dtreabh which also has a 50km/h limit. Probably the worlds most ridiculous speed limit.

the village of Slane has a 30km/h limit all the way through it, try do that on those big hills

Fozzie Bear · 11-10-2016 04:01PM

Kenna Vast Protein wrote: »

It's close but that award goes to a road a few mins away from the bridge, bothar na dtreabh which also has a 50km/h limit. Probably the worlds most ridiculous speed limit.

Think the limits on both could be safely raised to 60 without carnage following, or even 80 on the BnD section. Mind you 99% of drivers pass absolutely no heed of the speed limits anyway on these roads and we haven't seen mass casualties so far.

I think only 3 people have been killed in accidents on the bridge in the past 20 years? I remember a man and woman died about 10 years ago in a head on crash around Christmas time. Also a student from NUIG was mowed down as she walked home one evening a few years before that again around 2000.

Only death on BnD I can remember was 20+ years ago when a mother got out to attend to her child in the back seat and got knocked down. I think the restricted speed limits on BnD came into force as a result of that accident

tossy · 11-10-2016 04:16PM

Kenna Vast Protein wrote: »

Probably the worlds most ridiculous speed limit.

That it definitely is not.

11-10-2016 04:30PM

tossy wrote: »

That it definitely is not.

Trust me it is, if you knew the road you would agree.

ofcork · 11-10-2016 04:36PM

Cannot understand the attitude I've no license tax insurance or nct but I'll go out driving anyway.

punisher5112 · 11-10-2016 04:41PM

ofcork wrote: »

Cannot understand the attitude I've no license tax insurance or nct but I'll go out driving anyway.

Because it's highly unlikely to be caught very much depending on area.

If one were to the sensible thing would be at least have tax and nct.

I love seeing them lifted.

OldMrBrennan83 · 11-10-2016 04:42PM

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Truckermal · 11-10-2016 07:49PM

Patww79 wrote: »

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I travel it daily and I hate it as the cars behind you are tailgating because I cannot drive over 85 kph plus the foreign trucks coming from Castletownbere are flat out trying to make boats! I'm a ball of stress from Crookstown to Dunmanway..

Voodoomelon · 11-10-2016 08:06PM

nice_guy80 wrote: »

Unusual for a full driving ban to be lifted

Woman + kids + bullsh1t apology = law doesn't apply.

Tommyboy40 · 11-10-2016 08:28PM

frozenfrozen wrote: »

you know well what I'm asking.

I'll ask it this way

is a brand new Audi S8L doing 161km/h more dangerous than a 2001 micra doing 155km/h?

I drove to Dublin yesterday. I wasn't in a rush and the motorway was quite busy. I did a steady 82mph on cruise and I may as well have been parked. I'm in a 2.5 ton CL500 with hydraulic suspension and active braking and I'm being passed by people carriers with baby seats in the back. The Audi and similar Mercedes is designed to eat motorways at high speeds and to stop quickly with discs the size of pasta plates. When a 16 year old Micra passes you at 90, it's time to be afraid.

mikeecho · 11-10-2016 10:19PM

Tommyboy40 wrote: »

I drove to Dublin yesterday. I wasn't in a rush and the motorway was quite busy. I did a steady 82mph on cruise and I may as well have been parked. I'm in a 2.5 ton CL500 with hydraulic suspension and active braking and I'm being passed by people carriers with baby seats in the back. The Audi and similar Mercedes is designed to eat motorways at high speeds and to stop quickly with discs the size of pasta plates. When a 16 year old Micra passes you at 90, it's time to be afraid.

On the m8, foot to the floor....
Just watch your speed near Fermoy, Kilkenny and the Naas rd.

(180+ near rathcoole = heavy braking for Garda robot van)

Tommyboy40 · 11-10-2016 10:29PM

mikeecho wrote: »

On the m8, foot to the floor....
Just watch your speed near Fermoy, Kilkenny and the Naas rd.

(180+ near rathcoole = heavy braking for Garda robot van)

On summer evenings after 10pm when there is no one on the road and I'm alone in the car I have been known to travel on a bit, but when it's the middle of the day and there's traffic it's folly. I drive an amazing car but I don't fool myself that I'm the best driver in the world. ( I was when I started first)

visual · 12-10-2016 01:55AM

Tommyboy40 wrote: »

frozenfrozen wrote: »

you know well what I'm asking.

I'll ask it this way

is a brand new Audi S8L doing 161km/h more dangerous than a 2001 micra doing 155km/h?

I drove to Dublin yesterday. I wasn't in a rush and the motorway was quite busy. I did a steady 82mph on cruise and I may as well have been parked. I'm in a 2.5 ton CL500 with hydraulic suspension and active braking and I'm being passed by people carriers with baby seats in the back. The Audi and similar Mercedes is designed to eat motorways at high speeds and to stop quickly with discs the size of pasta plates. When a 16 year old Micra passes you at 90, it's time to be afraid.

In fairness that car is build for comfort not handling. Lighter cars can actually stop quicker with less effort.

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