Local Roads - New Speed Limits

How common are those limits and how common is to have them reduced further in the rain?

IIn any case we're on the thin edge on the unevidenced wedge in this country. 50 to 30, 80 to 60, 100 to 80. And sure why not throw on a further 20kph reduction across the board for a bit of rain, effectively making the limits 30/40 and 60 for the majority of the time. Sure who could argue with the logic?

Wikipedia has the answers you need for your first questions. Countries I've driven in that do weather-specific limits include France, Italy, Czech Republic and also Germany - most state and federal roads are 100, but that reduces to 80 when the surface is wet. You can look up the rest yourself.

Nobody has proposed weather-specific limits for Ireland, so there's no need to get offended about something that doesn't exist.

I'll see your wikipaedia and raise you an official EU Commission report which tells a slightly different story. Seems to me this little country is now in an unique position of being the only MS with a blanket all year around non urban 60kph speed limit

Theres a few contributors on here acting like the Nasa master technician telling the student to quit his ill informed nonsense and accept the only game in town mantra from his betters

https://road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/eu-road-safety-policy/priorities/safe-road-use/safe-speed/archive/speeding/speed-limits_en

Large majority, you say?

I would have thought the case for timed limits to be fairly obvious - if you're going to have large numbers of schoolchildren milling about, there's going to be an elevated level of risk for those times.

You're using only a metric of road accidents. Local roads are just that, Local roads linking rural communities. These roads have walkers and cyclists, and people entering or exiting their homes or farms. Regardless of the condition of the road, those living on them mostly welcome the opportunity to go about their daily activities with considerably less hassle.

You're spouting Boris Johnson levels of nonsense now. 90% ignoring the speed limit accordingto you...no need to ask how you arrived at that number....."if I say 100%, they'll never believe me and 80% sounds too low, so....9 out 10".

It's not the roads that are dangerous, it's the users.

If you consider that the chances of getting a ticket on some of these rural roads is near zero, it might be slightly easier for you to understand from your distant viewpoint why practically no drivers are keeping to the stupid new limit.

It is quite arrogant of you to assume to know better than me when I'm talking about witnessed driving on an L road that I travel daily. This is really the problem. Speeds being set by someone in an office in Dublin or Brussels with zero knowledge of what they are talking about. Yourself for example appear to believe you know everything. I could comfortably see you sit around a table and confidently legislate to reduce speed limits on roads that you have never travelled on and still believe that you are correct while scoffing at someone with actual knowledge of the reality.

I used the word 'incident' rather than accident or collision as it is inclusive of all road users -from articulated lorries and heavy farm machinery down to pedestrians and can also be applied to near misses like passing too close and/or at an inappropriate speed (irrespective of the actual legal limit).

If a road has been incident free for an extened period of time it is reasonable to infer that it is a safe road, definately safer than a road which has has numerous incidents over a similar time period. If incidents aren't reported they can't be recorded or taken into consideration when trying to improve road safety. It is a useful metric to identify where limited resources can be best applied for the best improvement in road safety.

Road safety is the responsbility of all road users - and those who design, build and maintain our roads, but that's for another thread.

Where have you been? There has been plenty of local news on it around here. The new speed signs have been erected for ages. Anybody living on, or using, these roads are well aware a change in coming.

Similar to this most locals are well aware in my locality and all support the changes

How do you deal with tailgating?

Say Im doing 40 kph on a bendy country road.. and thats what I feel is safest.

theory: a coherent group of propositions formulated to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world and repeatedly confirmed through experiment or observation.

I don't agree or disagree with lower default speed limits, they are what they are - in some instances warranted and in some instances not. Though I suspect a significant number of those who drove at an inappropriate speed (which could be less than the new 60kmh limit on some roads) will continue to do so as enforcement will be so sparse as to be almost non-existent.

If your theory were accurate, then there would be no safety benefits to things like median closing projects on dual carriageways.