Meanwhile on the Roads...

I've seen first hand how hard it is to get drunk drivers banned after being arrested. Can take years and years.

This is taking the Xmas spirit a bit far I think..

https://www.kildarenow.com/news/home/1686956/latest-dozens-of-motorists-caught-at-kildare-speed-trap-have-cases-thrown-out-by-judge.html

The street view is here, but what the Judge doesn't say is that there is a busy junction just down the way at the turn for Portarlington

https://maps.app.goo.gl/dM8n7AKx8mTa6REB6

Jesus, did anyone actually read the link? The judge didn't pull his reasoning out of his arse, the senior roads engineer recommended that the section be increased to 100kph in 2021. His job is to weigh guilt against unfair application of the law and found KCC in dereliction of their duty to increase the speed limit, hats off to him. Some seem to think that drivers who exceed the limit in these situations are the same ones who speed dangerously in others causing accidents, this is just nonsense. Note the judge convicted those who were driving 80kph or above, no argument with that.

The RSA gets correctly lambasted on here for blaming anything and everything to do with speed and shur reducing it everywhere is the be all and end all to ending road fatalities. One look at the dash cam thread shows this to be a fallacy and that it's far more likely due to inattentiveness, aggression/frustration, or more often than not sheer stupidity.

In fact I don't know why they don't simply have a collection of said cams in their advertising campaigns, would be far more effective.

As you come into Monasterevin from Portlaoise the road in question goes quickly from an 80km/hr limit to 60 then 50, at the same time the road narrows quickly for the bridge over the canal where there is now a pedestrian crossing for the Blueway. A little further up the road is the old Hazel Hotel which is now home to some asylum seekers and their families who walk in and out to the town on the footpath which is on the opposite side of the road.

A senior engineer who suggests 100km/hr approaching there wants a quick kick in the hole and to be put out to grass….

There should probably be a law where they can shunt cars out of the way. Similar to the way firefighters in New York can break the windows of cars parked beside fire hydrants so as to access water

See this a lot in virtually every housing estate up and down the country. I'm not convinced it's a "couldn't give a hoot" mentality, but more of a lack of basic awareness. Shame it has the same result though.

Eek, how many hit&runs has that been this past while? Using cars as weapons against pedestrians becoming the norm now, or is it still 'accident'

yep…more hi-viz…calls for pedestrians to be more aware of their surroundings and ban all e/scooters and bikes!

That's not a section of road I'd like to walk in the dark.

Th extent of townsland on N80 is only 1km, but it's inhospitable place for pedestrians.