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  • #2042
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,598 ✭✭✭✭zell12


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  • #2043
    khamilton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭khamilton


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123980569#Comment_123980569

    I don't doubt the Garda's opinion, but why would it be dismissed? There's video evidence of undertaking, entering a bus lane during its operating hours, a close pass, and speeding.



  • #2044
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,298 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123981394#Comment_123981394

    This, fair enough it's only a fine but it's possibly a deterrent. The quays are another prime example of stick up a bus lane camera and have it pay for itself within 24 hours. No more of this, I'm turning left up ahead, no entering it until it opens up and right of way to buses in the lane.

    Another option is to give DB and private operators a commission for all cars reported with CCTV from the bus as evidence.

    Simple, just needs some bylaws written up, it would solve a lot of public transport issues within a month.



  • #2045
    Paddigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭Paddigol


    The issue is a s**t show everywhere and will only get worse as more people chance their arms and realise that they can get away with it. You see clear examples of that aspect of the human psyche when sitting in traffic… one lad will swing into the hard shoulder with his indicator on, implying some vague intention to turn left at some point up ahead, and slowly but surely you'll see heads swivel and people copy him. It's always a him.

    As for the hand wringing about cyclists and e-scooters using the footpath… it seems just an accepted fact of life that cars are entitled to park up/ half up on footpaths in any circumstance where there's no double yellow lines. Not a whimper out of the pearl-clutchers on that issue.



  • #2046
    Macy0161
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,837 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    There seems to be zero acceptance or acknowledgement that cars parked on footpaths must have driven on them. But scooters…



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  • #2047
    Paddigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭Paddigol


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123982112#Comment_123982112

    It's a bit like that argument that some people get so worked up about - "you can't say a driver hit a pedestrian because that implies they deliberately drove into them"… I'm sure the cars just happen to roll up onto the pavements and we'll all just have to wait until its proven otherwise before criticising the hard pressed motorists.



  • #2048
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 16,130 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    I half understand drivers being mightily pissed off as they queue endlessly, travelling at a snails pace in traffic, while watching cyclists filter on by utilising a very efficient and healthy form of transport that is costing them a tiny fraction of running costs of a car. Must be a cause of serious frustration.

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  • #2049
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,439 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i've seen an ad for range rover on youtube a few times, and it can basically be summarised as 'suave guy gives a wry smile, climbs into a range rover, and drives up the steps at the front of a large mansion to get to the front door' and it left me wondering; do people who that ad works on, or is aimed at, have any sense of self awareness?



  • #2050
    magicbastarder
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    it was a shortened version of this i was presented with:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwCwC-7ioZ0


  • #2051
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,116 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123984515#Comment_123984515

    their job is to sell the car. Most cars spend most of their lives in traffic - you never see any traffic in car ads, it just doesn't exist.

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  • #2052
    Paddigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭Paddigol


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123984515#Comment_123984515

    Its aimed at those who see themselves as living at a level above the plebs, those to who rules don't really apply. "Sure, it was a bus lane/ one-way street/ red light, but look, I'm successful, elite and busy, stop bothering me. Those rules of the the underclass sheeple".

    In short, there are scumbags who treat the roads as their own private highways driving crap cars. They should be punished. You, however, in your expensive suit and big Range Rover, you get a free pass.



  • #2053
    Macy0161
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,837 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123983314#Comment_123983314

    This is the main reason for the issue with people rolling red lights. Zero to do with safety, the mythical grannies killed. Pure jealousy born of frustration.



  • #2054
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,439 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i don't think people run red lights because of jealousy towards cyclists? or did i misread you?

    they do it because they can get away with it.



  • #2055
    BP_RS3813
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭BP_RS3813


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123985600#Comment_123985600

    Exactly, in many cases a bike can proceed safely ahead whilst a light is red and a car cannot.

    I'm personally in favour of little to no red or green lights for all cyclists, E scooters, E bikes etc. Have every light where possible be a amber light meaning proceed if safe.

    No reason for a bike to be waiting at a stupid set of lights if it can proceed safely ahead. The more lights/stop start there is the more one is discouraged from cycling.



  • #2056
    Macy0161
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,837 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123985609#Comment_123985609

    People driving are so exercised by it, because they see others making fast progress while they are stuck being traffic. Same reason a significant number of people driving deliberately try to stop people filtering.



  • #2057
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,298 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Jesus, back in the big smoke today. First traffic lights I stopped at and excluding the ones who went through on amber, there were taxis who went through a long changed red. One actually swung out and overtook a taxi that stopped. Where was this, somewhere quiet, some backroad with no pedestrians and little traffic. No, this was on Dame Street, with the side walks packed and people crossing the road at the time. Yes I seen a few cyclists running reds, more than I used to, while in the minority, they all slow rolled it until it was clear.

    This isn't a dig at taxis, a short time later, several waited back as they observed vans double parked and allowed me to merge out safely, it was a good showing of situational awareness. More just the sheer annoyance from me at people giving out about cyclists being some scourge to the people of Dublin when in fact, they are no worse than any other road user group.



  • #2058
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 16,130 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123986778#Comment_123986778

    In Dublin, an amber light means accelerate like fork or you might be stuck waiting for the next green. Some folks just seem to do it from way too far back in the queue and get agitated when those in front don't have the same idea. I've been beeped a few times being that person in front failing to properly understand this ;)

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  • #2059
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,468 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123984515#Comment_123984515

    And then there's the ads designed to just enable bullies

    https://bsky.app/profile/jonburkeuk.bsky.social/post/3m5k53w3xpk2z

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  • #2060
    JMcL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭JMcL


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123987219#Comment_123987219

    Not just Dublin. I dropped the kids to school this morning as it was sheeting it down. I had a green light for about 3 or 4 seconds with I think 4 cars streaming through the red



  • #2061
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,298 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123984518#Comment_123984518

    He is from a TV show where an upper class child comes home from being a soldier after his father passes in a wealthy family, to get entangled in his fathers renting of land to drug growers. Possibly called the Gentleman, a Guy Ritchie style movie to give rise to the idea that being a drug dealer or in the drug trade is cool and will lead to good things, provided you are good looking and have money in the first place. I can well imagine a lot of their target audience would have been big fans of the show and aspire to be it's main character.



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  • #2062
    Macy0161
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,837 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    It is the Gentleman, good show I thought (and no, and I have no aspirations to be any of the characters, or indeed ever own or drive a range rover!)



  • #2063
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,139 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123985609#Comment_123985609

    Exactly

    No enforcement of the law



  • #2064
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,439 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    On that topic:

    https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2025/11/15/government-urged-to-act-as-speeding-motorists-swerve-driving-bans-with-charity-donations/

    It seems the high court ruled that judges cannot override the law on this matter but many of them still do.

    Probably paywalled - the story mentions that one judge allowed charges of dangerous driving to be dropped to careless driving (thus avoiding a driving ban), in two cases where the motorists were caught doing over 200km/h. One made a donation of €10k to charity to achieve this, and the other €20k.

    He let off others with the same treatment for a free hundred Euro seemingly.



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