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110kph speed limit ?

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  • #62
    Marlow
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    ThunderZtorm wrote: »
    To be fair, coming from Denmark that's full of motorways and having driven a lot with my dad on the German autobahns in my youth..

    .. Give it some years before you change things up on the Irish motorways, tbh. You need to have a generation or two of drivers who've been raised with the fact that they're there, and have driven with their parents/families etc on them regularly before you can adjust speed limits and such.

    Denmark is a wee bit different though. There used to be no speed limits on country roads even and people going slower would move out to the sides to let faster people pass. Cars weren't that fast either back then.

    Denmark also raised the speed limit of most motorways from 110 to 130 km/h in 2004, as it made more sense.

    In Germany the advised motorway speed is 130 km/h and honestly it removes the "target speed" having no speed limit.

    The issue here is plainly education, but I don't see that being fixed any time soon.

    /M


  • #63
    ironclaw
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    AugustusMinimus wrote: »
    N roads have green signs and regional roads have white signs.

    It's not that difficult.

    The M11 to N11 has green signs in the Motorway section before Fassaroe. Granted the limit drops to 100km/h just after but its not as cut n' dry as sign color.


  • #64
    AugustusMinimus
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    ironclaw wrote: »
    The M11 to N11 has green signs in the Motorway section before Fassaroe. Granted the limit drops to 100km/h just after but its not as cut n' dry as sign color.

    I suspect that the signs on the motorway have a blue frame with green on the inside indicating an N road to come ?


  • #65
    Marlow
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    ironclaw wrote: »
    The M11 to N11 has green signs in the Motorway section before Fassaroe. Granted the limit drops to 100km/h just after but its not as cut n' dry as sign color.

    That's most likely, because it was N11 historically in that section and they just didn't replace the signs. The sign coloring is supposed to be clear cut, but the NRA and CoCo's are taking shortcuts sometimes.

    That inconsistency isn't helping either.

    /M


  • #66
    Marlow
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    Actually, I just had a look at that on Google Maps and there's blue signage all the way up until it drops from motorway to dual carriage way at Fassaroe southbound.

    That dual carriageway stretch is classed N11, and has green signage because of that.

    Then it upgrades to motorway and M11 again and becomes blue signage again.

    Not sure, where you would have seen green signs on the motorway stretch.

    /M


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  • #67
    ironclaw
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    Sorry lads, drive it every day. The new gantry is not on Google Maps, and is entirely green. Its about 500m before the M11 ends (At the Fassaroe turn off) Granted its a small note and I don't care, I'm just saying you can't look at a sign color and determine the road type / limit.


  • #68
    Marlow
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    ironclaw wrote: »
    Sorry lads, drive it every day. The new gantry is not on Google Maps, and is entirely green. Its about 500m before the M11 ends (At the Fassaroe turn off) Granted its a small note and I don't care, I'm just saying you can't look at a sign color and determine the road type / limit.

    Inconsistency like this is a huge part of the bad motoring in Ireland. If they'd at least get that one right, people might learn in time .... hopeless.

    /M


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