Can we stop warning people about checkpoints?

20-04-2017 07:47AM

dbagman wrote: »

Can we start warning people about tv licence inspectors......

You can ring my bell ell ell, ring my bell, my bell,

Ding a ling a ling

Neighsayer · 20-04-2017 07:51AM

Erik Shin wrote: »

Neighsayer wrote: »

I hardly ever let a journey pass without flashing a couple of oncoming cars in the hope it might encourage them to slow down.

It would help if you had nicer tits

That's so funny. Love it.

andekwarhola · 20-04-2017 07:53AM

mfceiling wrote: »

That's where you should be driving unless you are overtaking.

If you bothered to read what I actually wrote, I meant I don't bother overtaking most of the time and stick with the traffic speed in that lane for the (relatively short) time I'm on the motorway because most of the cnuts immediately camp in the overtaking lane and to a lesser extent the middle.

The Oort Cloud · 20-04-2017 07:54AM

DangerMouse27 wrote: »

I go driving in my car,
Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep

Look at what I've become.
I hope posters are taking something from the original post and not just adding lyrics.

Fair play Dangermouse.

Well, I suppose if a vehicle is oncoming especially on a back-road and you flash them as to a checkpoint ahead then they will obviously slow down immediately which is good, and I'm sure most folk that were actually speeding would continue to keep to the speed limit after that as of the acknowledgement of the flash. The odd stupid person would probably continue to speed thereafter, but I would say the majority would just take it handy after the warning imo.

andekwarhola · 20-04-2017 07:56AM

The Oort Cloud wrote: »

Fair play Dangermouse.

Well, I suppose if a vehicle is oncoming especially on a back-road and you flash them as to a checkpoint ahead then they will obviously slow down immediately which is good, and I'm sure most folk that were actually speeding would continue to keep to the speed limit after that as of the acknowledgement of the flash. The odd stupid person would probably continue to speed thereafter, but I would say the majority would just take it handy after the warning imo.

Most would slow down until they passed the checkpoint and then floor it

While putting up the location of the checkpoint on Facebook in between checking water charges protest pages.

D0NNELLY · 20-04-2017 07:57AM

DangerMouse27 wrote: »

Well that's a bit different.
I am on about flashing a car to warn them of a speed trap or Garda checkpoint.

The point of the vans are to slow people down, not to make money, so flashing does the same job.

mfceiling · 20-04-2017 08:01AM

andekwarhola wrote: »

If you bothered to read what I actually wrote, I meant I don't bother overtaking most of the time and stick with the traffic speed in that lane for the (relatively short) time I'm on the motorway because most of the cnuts immediately camp in the overtaking lane and to a lesser extent the middle.

I did bother to read it and you never mentioned that you don't bother overtaking most of the time or that you are only on it for a relatively short period of time.

20-04-2017 08:02AM

D0NNELLY wrote: »

The point of the vans are to slow people down, not to make money, so flashing does the same job.

I agree. Speeding van makes people slow down, flashing slows them down too.

I wouldn't mind a campaign explaining to drivers that they don't need to slam on the brakes when they see a van. Just maintain your legal speed people.

The Oort Cloud · 20-04-2017 08:06AM

andekwarhola wrote: »

Most would slow down until they passed the checkpoint and then floor it

While putting up the location of the checkpoint on Facebook in between checking water charges protest pages.

Well I would like to think that most would slow it down a bit from the warning flash, even if one person slowed down permanently from the flash and said 'right' I'll keep to the limit till I get home, then that's good enough to me.

andekwarhola · 20-04-2017 08:06AM

mfceiling wrote: »

I did bother to read it and you never mentioned that you don't bother overtaking most of the time or that you are only on it for a relatively short period of time.

If I was an overtaking lane camper, I'd have called it The Fast Lane.

20-04-2017 08:10AM

I had to escape
The city was sticky and cruel
Maybe I should have called you first
But I was dying to get to you

I was dreaming while I drove the long straight road ahead, uh-huh, yeah
Could taste your sweet kisses, your arms open wide
This fever for you was just burning me up inside

I drove all night to get to you
Is that all right?
I drove all night, crept in your room
Woke you from your sleep to make love to you
Is that all right?
I drove all night

What in this world
Keeps us from falling apart?
No matter where I go I hear
The beating of our one heart

I think about you when the night is cold and dark, uh-huh, yeah
No one can move me the way that you do
Nothing erases this feeling between me and you, oh

I drove all night to get to you
Is that all right?
I drove all night, crept in your room
Woke you from your sleep to make love to you
Is that all right?
I drove all night

Could taste your sweet kisses, your arms open wide
This fever for you was just burning me up inside

I drove all night to get to you
Is that all right?
I drove all night, crept in your room
Is that all right?
I drove all night

I'm willing to bet my car that the OP is hogging the overtaking lanes on the M50 instead of being on the inner lane, and that is why drivers are right up behind them.
The cluelessness of some people on that road is unreal.

Edit: Forgot to say that I do flash warnings to others when they are approaching those nasty speed vans, who's sole purpose is sneakily taking fines.
I would NEVER oncoming traffic for a Garda Checkpoint though. You don't know that you could be warning a drunk/drugged driver, an uninsured driver/ unlicensed driver or a criminal. Thus allowing them a chance to escape.

Badly Drunk Boy · 20-04-2017 08:19AM

Yeah, car crashes aren't nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5QErPDNcj4

AudreyHepburn · 20-04-2017 08:22AM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

To answer your Q. Nothing wrong with warning someone when a money grab van is located right between a road switch from 80 to 60

Ah this old chestnut.....that's not what the Vans are for and I think most people, yourself included, know that really.

It's about making the roads safe and keeping lunatic drivers who can't or more likely simply won't abide by speed limits off the roads.

No way would I warn anyone about speed cameras....why would I want to aid and abet dangerous drivers who refuse to obey the rules of the road.

jcd5971 · 20-04-2017 08:27AM

Let's face it most of the time the traffic core aren't even in dangerous roads, they are in places where the road condition is good for example a long straight stretch of road that happens to be 80kph limit when it could and arguably should be 100kph.

It's a money grab pain and simple and has nothing to do with road safety. Feel free to disagree if you want it's my opinion and yours may be different.

Barry Badrinath · 20-04-2017 08:28AM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Ah this old chestnut.....that's not what the Vans are for and I think most people, yourself included, know that really.

It's about making the roads safe and keeping lunatic drivers who can't or more likely simply won't abide by speed limits off the roads.

No way would I warn anyone about speed cameras....why would I want to aid and abet dangerous drivers who refuse to obey the rules of the road.

But, slowing people down would be a product of you flashing them...hence making the road safer.

Why wait until they get a letter in the post 2 months later? Schure they could kill someone in the mean time.

Your logic is flawed

Beyondgone · 20-04-2017 08:30AM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Ah this old chestnut.....that's not what the Vans are for and I think most people, yourself included, know that really.

It's about making the roads safe and keeping lunatic drivers who can't or more likely simply won't abide by speed limits off the roads.

No way would I warn anyone about speed cameras....why would I want to aid and abet dangerous drivers who refuse to obey the rules of the road.

Oh! Oh! Teacher! Teacher! I know the answer to this one! Me! Me!

They're a money racket Miss. They only put them where the limit is silly and hope to catch as many people doing 20kph over the silly limit as possible.

Balmed Out · 20-04-2017 08:31AM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Ah this old chestnut.....that's not what the Vans are for and I think most people, yourself included, know that really.

It's about making the roads safe and keeping lunatic drivers who can't or more likely simply won't abide by speed limits off the roads.

No way would I warn anyone about speed cameras....why would I want to aid and abet dangerous drivers who refuse to obey the rules of the road.

I disagree with your opening line. If so most would be located near the bends and corners of accident blackspots where speeding does most damage. They never ever are though because the vast majority slow down and don't speed in these areas.
Where are they most often located? The one point over in a 20 km stretch where its possible to overtake that tractor or else at points where the speed limit changes. That's my own experience anyhow and strikes me as very much trying to make money.
I flash people I see driving way too fast and when it comes to speed traps only if they look like they may be going slightly over.
Never flash for checkpoints, that I cant understand.

andekwarhola · 20-04-2017 08:33AM

jcd5971 wrote: »

Let's a money grab pain and simple and has nothing to do with road safety. Feel free to disagree if you want it's my opinion and yours may be different.

As vast money making rackets go, I'd could probably think of better ones that people can't completely avoid simply by driving at the legal speed limit.

It's hardly tycoon 101 is it?

Notoldorwise · 20-04-2017 08:36AM

hairyslug wrote:

Can you please accompany your post with a relevant song lyric, it just makes the rest of us look weird if you don't.

What a beautiful noise...

Wanderer78 · 20-04-2017 08:36AM

AudreyHepburn wrote:

It's about making the roads safe and keeping lunatic drivers who can't or more likely simply won't abide by speed limits off the roads.

Of course it's about road safety but unfortunately when you create an incentive such as financial gain, human behaviour takes over, and it becomes easier to try maximise those gains by whatever means even by unethical means. I'm not convinced speed traps work

Discodog · 20-04-2017 08:40AM

No one flashes lights anymore, we all use twitter & facebook. The Galway checkpoints page has 14000 members.

hytrogen · 20-04-2017 08:41AM

andekwarhola wrote:

If you bothered to read what I actually wrote, I meant I don't bother overtaking most of the time and stick with the traffic speed in that lane for the (relatively short) time I'm on the motorway because most of the cnuts immediately camp in the overtaking lane and to a lesser extent the middle.

Life in the fast lane Surely make you lose your mind
Life in the fast lane

andekwarhola · 20-04-2017 08:41AM

hytrogen wrote: »

Life in the fast lane Surely make you lose your mind
Life in the fast lane

/axe break

Wibbs · 20-04-2017 08:42AM

Most times when I read a speed/driving related thread in AH I picture many of the replies roughly divided along these lines.

Either:

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Or:

Oh and; Baby you can drive my car, baby you can drive my car and baby I love you.

The Oort Cloud · 20-04-2017 08:44AM

Endas government is like a huge vacuum cleaner sucking the life out of every living soul on the island, of course the speed vans are only there to receive extra revenue, without a shadow of a doubt.

There are certain people out there that no matter what punishment you give to them, even a driving ban, they will continue to drive regardless. Some people just do not care and will only think of themselves at all times disregarding the majority of road users, and they just don't seem to give a ****. All it takes is one person like this to cause the death of another or their family, but they don't seem to be able to understand the consequences of their actions of speeding, it just doesn't register, just like trying to explain empathy to a sociopath, does not compute.

AndyBoBandy · 20-04-2017 08:45AM

I shall consult the Fast & Furious movie franchise, and if they deem it cool to warn others of impending speed fines, I shall follow suit.

Choose Life

Fast Life

Furious Life

Choose a f**king big television.

AudreyHepburn · 20-04-2017 08:48AM

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

But, slowing people down would be a product of you flashing them...hence making the road safer.

Why wait until they get a letter in the post 2 months later? Schure they could kill someone in the mean time.

Your logic is flawed

It's not flawed.....they might slow down at that moment but you and I both they'd go straight back to breaking the speed limit once passed the van and would most likely continue to speed for then on.

Flashing is not deterrent to me, it's a means of allowing people to continue driving dangerously.

AudreyHepburn · 20-04-2017 08:50AM

Balmed Out wrote: »

I disagree with your opening line. If so most would be located near the bends and corners of accident blackspots where speeding does most damage. They never ever are though because the vast majority slow down and don't speed in these areas.
Where are they most often located? The one point over in a 20 km stretch where its possible to overtake that tractor or else at points where the speed limit changes. That's my own experience anyhow and strikes me as very much trying to make money.
I flash people I see driving way too fast and when it comes to speed traps only if they look like they may be going slightly over.
Never flash for checkpoints, that I cant understand.

If you don't want to be forking out money on fines there's a simple solution....SLOW DOWN.

The checkpoints are there to make the roads safe, nothing more nothing less and I really wish people would stop hiding their heads in the sand, acknowledge that they, and not the Gardai, are the problem and at least attempt to drive safely.

Citroen2cv · 20-04-2017 08:52AM

Flash the Lights at me

I left school a while ago when I got meself a job
The craic was good on the building sites, and I made a couple a bob
I bought a Ford Festa, me pride and joy is she
If there stopping round the border, wont ye flash the lights at me
Chorus
Flash the lights at me, flash the lights at me
Use the code on the border roads and flash the lights at me
I paid the auld insurance, and it cost me a couple a grand
Im stony broke and thats no joke, Im sure youll understand
I have no money left at all to pay for an M.O.T.
If theyre stopping round the border, wont you flash the lights at me
Chorus
The tyres are nearly bald and I have no tax at all
Theres a drop of red in the diesel tank that could be my downfall
If the customs, they are dipping or the boys in blue you see
If theyre stopping round the border, wont ye flash the lights at me
Chorus
Sometimes on a Sunday, to Jonesboro I go
I might have a couple a squibbs in the boot, tapes or videos
I might have a load of potin or a drop of duty free
If theyre stopping round the border, wont ye flash the lights at me
Chorus.
Were crafty round the border, thats how we have to be
We like to get the better of the customs and authorty
We can barely forge, we know the score, weve a simple philosophy
If the things not right day or night, wont you flash the lights at me
Chorus

AndyBoBandy · 20-04-2017 08:56AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZA6qiJVfU

Can we stop warning people about checkpoints?

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