2k fine for 30k above limit...

Del2005 wrote: »

There can still be a 120 limit on an N road. If there's no alternative route the road has to stay a national road so learners or slow vehicles can use it but the limit can be 120 if its built to motorway standard.

Is there actually any N road with a speed limit of 120kph?

Coming off the M50, at lots of exits, you go from 100 mph and in a very short time you're supposed to slow down to a totally inappropriate 30kph. That's 18mph in old money.
Literally everyone ignores it, and it would be very dangerous if someone decided to stand on the brakes to slow down to the speed required. Plus they'd be blown off the road for being inconsiderate.
Brand new roads and some prik decided that 18mph is the maximum speed you're allowed do. FFS, if you're on the motorway in the first place, then by definition, you have to hold a full licence.
Doesn't happen abroad. Poor Paddy is too stupid of calculating how fast/slow they should be going. Are we really that incapable of judging for ourselves what an appropiate speed is? This just brings the law into disrepute and even the appropriate rules get ignored.
A speed limit is supposed to be just that. It's not a target. It should be up to the driver to decide what an appropriate speed is relative to road, weather and lighting conditions.

I blame the cycling lobby in the NRA. Couldn't organize a pics up in a brewery.

Del2005 wrote: »

There can still be a 120 limit on an N road. If there's no alternative route the road has to stay a national road so learners or slow vehicles can use it but the limit can be 120 if its built to motorway standard.

Not the N7 though

Salary Negotiator wrote: »

Sunday is the worst day for road deaths.

Have you the lotto numbers as well for this weekend?

I think this stat is based on motorbikes, I've heard it before. There are more bikers on the road, some are seasonal riders and tend to have less mileage and are out for a hot spin on secondary and regional roads. Makes sense to me anyway.

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

The fúck has happened to this forum?

Sad.


Don't any of you recognise a self-publicist career w@nker like Shane Ross when you see one? Election coming up, spout something controversial, name in papers, job done. Because that's what he sees as his job - getting himself elected - not doing anything useful in relation to transport. He's done nothing in relation to his actual job and spends more time giving out about a garda station in his backyard being closed.


I swear to fúck, if in a few years he or some other gobsh!te proposes that speeders will be shot without trial, there will be people on this forum thanking it. :rolleyes:

NEVER, EVER forget that if you gave people like that their way they'd ban motorbikes entirely in the morning.

Hang up your helmets in shame.

:mad:

Nail on the head.

Since he has come in, any poor soul that has to pass through the city center on a bus , car or taxi may have to bring a packed lunch as they are going to be stuck there for hours as his NTA decided to put a train through Collage Green.

Lets face it, he is not up to the job, and a few last ditch attempts to give cyclist more rights and catch speeders is futile. Its a cop out. And a lame attempt to deal with the fact that he cant provide a safer cycle segregated infrastructure or more Garda to police the rules that already exist.

Unfortunately the snowflake generation are easy pulled along.

And unfortunately they also have a vote.

I’m all for progressive punishments for faster speeds as the current 3 points for barely exceeding the limit isn’t fair or right.

Ross has got the formula all wrong, should be on percentages over the limit instead like some other places have but he still managed to mess it up. No surprise really.

They always go for the excessive punishment in these laws to put fear into people because there’s barely any enforcement.

Imagine a €2000 fine and court date for driving 131km/h on the M50?

Keith186 wrote: »

Ross has got the formula all wrong, should be on percentages over the limit instead like some other places have but he still managed to mess it up.

I disagree. Consider how much energy is in a vehicle materially above 100 km/h on a road that could have vulnerable road users.

batman_oh wrote: »

A bike doing 130kmh on the M50 is going to kill all the cyclists and children playing on the road?

Proper LOL'd at this

They'll do a token "slow-down" weekend where they'll enforce this and make a big deal about it in the media. Then F*CK all will happen after that. Like every other law in the country, people will flaunt it and nothing will be enforced.