Increase in road deaths - RTE tonight at 9:35pm

We don't all speed

I just drive to the limits at all times

For me it's a simple method of avoiding speeding points and i'm in no rush anyway

Be great if there was a portal where you could upload dashcam footage to the Gardai and they actually used it to prosecute. UK does it, can't see why we don't.

The amount of footage I have of disastrous, dangerous driving is shocking.

I'm sorry, but everyone has broken the speed limit at some point, that's what I mean. And you have too, no matter what you say.

I don't mean driving dangerously and speed recklessly. As I have matured I have really slowed down as a driver, but I might still do 85 on an 80 road. It happens. Or 53 in a 50.

Ok in hindsight I misunderstood

Limerick has introduced 30 kmph speed limits in parts of the city. However, because of poor signage it is difficult to know whether one is in a 50 or 30 kmph limit area. It would help if the speed limits were marked on the roads.

The councils paint a lot of stripes on the road in small towns for people to cross

I don't see what they're adding to safety often located at T junctions

All things considered, peddling the notion that the difference between your indicated speed and actual speed has any measurable effect on collision risk just leads people to believe that speed is the be all and end all of road safety, and that 79km/h in freezing fog is A-OK but 81km/h deserves a life time ban.

It really is far more complex than that - and the RSA know it too, but there seems to be an major lack of understanding of human behavior in how roads are constructed and policed in Ireland.

Bombarding road users with signs, limits, bollards and ever more complex road markings only works to a point - there needs to be much larger design concept which influences traffic speed and gives priority unconsciously as opposed to trying to enforce things that just don't work, or make people feel good, but have little bearing on collision number.

I can't understand the value of getting each member of the Gardaí to spend 30 minutes of their day on roads policing, they will have to switch from the task they are at to get in to road policing mode.

Exactly.

The fact that the decision was only made after a few bad weeks and a Prime Time special shows it was just popularism.

Harris was getting it tight and made an easy decision, which I'm sure was sneered at by rank and file Gardai.

Apologies, I took it up incorrectly.

My point really is that minor infractions of the speed limit have no measurable bearing on road safety, and equating limit to safety takes focus off far more important aspects.

Some people will get hung up on the fact that 36km/h is 20% OVER!!! a 30km/h limit, but will never agree that hazard perception is a far more important factor in keeping roads safe - because you can't enforce your way out of that. It would require a big overhaul of the training and testing system.

Arn't these local authority engineers by definition "local" and in charge of local roads in a certain area, Would it not be part of their jobs to know the Roads / Junctions they are responsible for? Can they not do things the old fashioned way when they cant get the data? Ie. They heard there was a bad accident at such & such a place over weekend, maybe use some common sense & old fashioned initiative & get out of the office & have a look at said location ? Would that be to much to ask?

Let's get the red light cameras for Motor vehicles and let the Gardai worry about the rest…

The ones we had ten years ago, at the Luas Queen St junction (the ones that had to be switched off because Gardai couldn't keep up with number of offences arising) picked up cyclists, as well as motorists. They found that 12% of red light jumping was done by cyclists, with 88% down to motorists.