Traffic Corps Program on RTE

R.O.R wrote: »

"Sure, this veh-hi-kal is not fit to be on the road. Drive on"

What a fuc*ing joke. With policing like that, it's no wonder there are so many fatal collisions around Donegal. Driver's like that, in cars like that, need to be take off the road, not sent to re-fuel!

exactly...was absolutely f**kin fuming at that. Sums up the Gardai in total that clip. what if that clown had wiped out some other poor motorist after being allowed drive on. Any of the garda members on here care to respond?

Berty wrote: »

Curious, and at the same time, ironic user name or just a coincidence.

I love the show guilty as charged, personally i think its way better than the irish version

hobochris wrote: »

Don't remember ever being on a high horse?! All I did is voice my opinion, I'm both a motorist and a biker and as a biker it gets very frustrating to see people such as the guy in the jeep drive dangerously with the end result often being someone else paying the price. I'm not saying bikers are perfect either but most are alot more careful - if we are involved in an accident, regardless of fault, we always end up worse off. Unfortunately careless drivers such as the guy in the jeep are plentiful on Irish roads.

IMO, It should be zero tolerance when it comes to road safety, not the garda using their discretion. Would you be arguing garda discretion if he hurt or killed someone you knew due to his idiotic driving?

OK fully agree that going through the light was wrong, but he got pinged for that and rightly so, but then taking him to court for speeding and dangerous driving and driving without due care and attention and X,Y and Z might well ruin the poor lads life. Zero tolerance would result in nobody on the roads!! to me zero tolerance would mean 2 points for 61 in a 60, whereas discretion to me means the guard with the speed gun lets the little 1kmph go and no bodies day is any the worse for it.

TBH I think it showed how far behind the UK we are when it comes to enforcement. It didn't do the Gardai any favors.

Yet again the Irish version of a show is fairly crap in comparison Road wars is much better.

I have to admit I didn't see it ... but my experiences with the traffic corp. have been 100% negative. The ordinary Gardai are fine with traffic enforcement - and fair - but traffic corps. sucks imho.

First off I get tailed from a filling station. I don't just mean tailed in the normal way, I mean they zoomed up behind me as if I'd just robbed a bank. They followed me for about 5 km., completely oblivious to the wobbly Hyundai Accent in front of me with 6 people in it. They ( T.C. ) didn't indicate once, and when they were done they did a U-turn on a hairpin bend. This was all at night.

They did the same thing a 2nd. time. This time I got completely pi$$ed, and indicated left and pulled in slowly on a straight. I rang the station to ask them why, when half of rural Ireland was driving around with mud - covered and illegible number plates, they had the hots for me?

This was all in Thurles incidentally. I quickly discovered that the T.C. work 'part time' and identifying anyone is impossible, it seems. Fast forward to a few weeks ago, I go to Dunlaoghaire at night to buy a magazine. When I go to exit the parking space I hear beeping. I look back ( again ) and can just about see a T.C. car with the headlights off half in the parking space behind me, as in on the wrong side of the road.

Obviously the driver came down the hill at a right angle to the road I was on too fast, and was between two minds whether to pull in or keep going ( detectives were pulled alongside a car further up ) and she became disorientated. The sheer arrogance was amazing. Her female colleague then ran into the chippers, before they took off at what could only be described as a dangerous speed, important chips mission completed.

As someone who is constantly tailgated at legal speeds ( and usually with the person behind having every opportunity to overtake ) it disgusts me to find that this arrogant behaviour is 'official' as well. More recently again, a motorcycle fella passed me at at least 160 kph on the N7. These are the same guys who keep telling us that people think "it'll never be them".

From my observations of the Traffic Corps, I think they're a detective unit who do a bit of traffic on the side. Go around any rural town and they're more interested in finding out who's about than traffic offenses. Another yellow - pack govt. measure if you ask me. What I do know is that zero accountability has proven itself pretty badly in the past in every other walk of life.