Kerry drivers

Timberrrrrrrr · 27-06-2015 02:30PM

cajonlardo wrote: »

There is absolutely no reason why an experienced driver in a road fit car cannot drive over 80kph on that motorway and their child ( and everyone else) be safe.

Tell me that at 8 am on a Monday morning :pac:

As for today, yes I could have driven much faster but it was a lovely day we were singing along to his favourite CD and i was in no hurry. 80kph in the left lane was fine and dandy.

Amprodude · 27-06-2015 02:32PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

You should write to your TD and tell him to widen the roads just for you then.

Well that might be an idea but I live in Cork.

Amprodude · 27-06-2015 02:34PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Because that's the absolute limit, not some recommended cruising speed.

As everyone knows, the golden rule is that you drive at the speed that enables you to safely stop and avoid any emergency that may arise. On Kerry roads, with all those hills and corners, that can be far far short of the limit. I drive hard myself where circumstances allow, but 20 years of driving here in South Kerry means I know that's rare.

Well it would be astronomical if you couldn't stop a car safely doing 60kph on a recommended 100kph zone. That would be insane.

Amprodude · 27-06-2015 02:36PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Tell me that at 8 am on a Monday morning :pac:

As for today, yes I could have driven much faster but it was a lovely day we were singing along to his favourite CD and i was in no hurry. 80kph in the left lane was fine and dandy.

Why didn't you take the backroads then?

Gwynplaine · 27-06-2015 02:37PM

The Vincent Brown show Kerry the other night was like something out of d'unbelievables. That Healy Rae gobsh1t, can't actually really speak like that. He really makes a show of himself and his county.

27-06-2015 02:39PM

Amprodude wrote: »

Well it would be astronomical if you couldn't stop a car doing 60kph on a recommended 100kph zone. That would be insane.

Oh you can stop a car by pressing the brakes. Eventually they all stop!

But the doesn't mean the stopping distance is always safe. And safety trumps clinging to the upper speed limit. I'm guessing some roads in Kerry, like Ballaghbeama, are 100kmph, you'd be doing well to go along at 40.

Timberrrrrrrr · 27-06-2015 02:41PM

Amprodude wrote: »

Why didn't you take the backroads then?

Because I went from Blanch shopping center to my Sisters in Castleknock so easier to just go to M50 from there rather than back up through Ballycoolin and the back roads.

Amprodude · 27-06-2015 02:46PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Because I went from Blanch shopping center to my Sisters in Castleknock so easier to just go to M50 from there rather than back up through Ballycoolin and the back roads.

And you pissed alot of people off by doing so. Cool story bro.

Mint Sauce · 27-06-2015 02:47PM

The problem is, and this applys to not just Kerry Drivers, alot of them doing 60-70 in a 100 zone, continue that speed when passing through a 50 zone. They simply just do not have a clue to their surroundings.

You get stuck behind a car doing this speed, for them to leave you behind in the towns and villages, only to get stuck behind them again a few 100m back into the 100 zone.

You then get similar drivers driving up your arse in the 50 zone, to try and pass you out even before the 100 marker, to sit infront of you doing 60-70.

The same drivers also do the same in the overtaking lane on hills, thinking to them selfs, i'm not a tractor or slow moving vehicle, so I dont need to be in the left lane. Now causing drivers to dangerously undertake them.

Samaris · 27-06-2015 02:57PM

Maybe you should leave more time for your journey if you're in such a rush, OP.

It doesn't entirely matter that the speed limit is 100kph, if conditions aren't safe to drive at. Although there's two different things being argued here.

1. Driving at the limit on a motorway
2. Driving at the limit on non-motorways, which are much more variable.

I have more sympathy for your complaint assuming it's motorways you're talking about. But in those cases, it's generally quite possible to overtake if you need to, and also people DO get fined for driving too slowly on them.

I have fairly little sympathy for the second, especially in more rural areas. There's a place between Kerry and Cork where the road looks fine and dandy, between two little villages that have nearly joined together. Idiots race down there and don't realise that there's another residential area until they've turned the corner and they're in it. Or maybe they're hitting the heavy stone wall to one side of the road or the other.

Kerry roads can be awkward, conditions are often rather worse than Cork, including environmental conditions like fog. Roads are given daft speed limits based on an arbitrary designations rather than "holy ****, this road is winding around the top of a mountain, I'm not going at sixty here". If you're going to Kerry, deal with how they drive, or find somewhere else to go.

sheesh · 27-06-2015 03:00PM

Amprodude wrote: »

Is it just me or are Kerry drivers really pathetic?

I drive in Co. Kerry roads everyday for last 9 years and everyday I meet cars that drive 30kph under the speed limit. If it's 100kph they are doing 60-70kph etc. It's really annoying and it should be clamped down. Drive on or get the fuk off the road. Just my opinion buts it's really common down there.

of course its not you ! yes we are all really pathetic.

Amprodude · 27-06-2015 03:04PM

Samaris wrote: »

Maybe you should leave more time for your journey if you're in such a rush, OP.

It doesn't entirely matter that the speed limit is 100kph, if conditions aren't safe to drive at. Although there's two different things being argued here.

1. Driving at the limit on a motorway
2. Driving at the limit on non-motorways, which are much more variable.

I have more sympathy for your complaint assuming it's motorways you're talking about. But in those cases, it's generally quite possible to overtake if you need to, and also people DO get fined for driving too slowly on them.

I have fairly little sympathy for the second, especially in more rural areas. There's a place between Kerry and Cork where the road looks fine and dandy, between two little villages that have nearly joined together. Idiots race down there and don't realise that there's another residential area until they've turned the corner and they're in it. Or maybe they're hitting the heavy stone wall to one side of the road or the other.

Kerry roads can be awkward, conditions are often rather worse than Cork, including environmental conditions like fog. Roads are given daft speed limits based on an arbitrary designations rather than "holy ****, this road is winding around the top of a mountain, I'm not going at sixty here". If you're going to Kerry, deal with how they drive, or find somewhere else to go.

Again this is really pure nonsense what I'm reading here. Yes some roads in Kerry are dangerous and should be driven at alot lower speeds than what is recommended but alot of Kerry roads are safe to drive at 100kph. I do most of my driving here and I can't understand how one can drive 40kph slower than the recommended speed in a speed zone. I don't see this outside of Kerry and I'm not coming down on Kerry itself by the way. It's a beautiful County and I love it but the drivers there (not all of them by the way) are negative and backward when it comes to driving a car on the road.

fullstop · 27-06-2015 03:04PM

encore1 wrote: »

And why is it the only county in the country where , coming up to a roundabout, if you intend on going straight ahead, you have to approach on the inside lane?!
I've been saying for years that the driving test must be different down there - if there is one at all!

Because on nearly every roundabout in the country if you're not going past 12 o clock you should be in the inside lane. So I dont see what your point is here?

And to the people saying the speed limit is a limit not a target, you get marked down in the driving test for driving too slowly.

Amprodude · 27-06-2015 03:07PM

sheesh wrote: »

of course its not you ! yes we are all really pathetic.

I love Kerry people :-D

michael999999 · 27-06-2015 03:08PM

Amprodude wrote: »

Well that might be an idea but I live in Cork.

Come about 5 o clock next Sunday, there will be plenty cars and a team bus heading for the cork border at full speed!

Dr Turk Turkelton · 27-06-2015 03:09PM

Another thing I noticed on my travels to Kerry if that it has to be absolutely pitch black with not a chink of light escaping the sky before they turn on their lights. Must think it pushes up the electricity bill or something to have them on even in dark thunderous downpours.
Also agree with op about the tootling along at 70km/h and its not for safety reasons. It's generally auld lads looking in their neighbours fields to see if they have more cows than them, so not only are they holding up traffic they are not concentrating on the road.

Amprodude · 27-06-2015 03:10PM

fullstop wrote: »

And to the people saying the speed limit is a limit not a target, you get marked down in the driving test for driving too slowly.

Exactly and you don't get your licence if you get too many marks. Therefore if can't try and stay with the speed limit where appropriate then you shouldn't be holding a licence in the first place.

Timberrrrrrrr · 27-06-2015 03:10PM

Amprodude wrote: »

And you pissed alot of people off by doing so. Cool story bro.

How?

Who did i "piss off"

michael999999 · 27-06-2015 03:10PM

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Another thing I noticed on my travels to Kerry if that it has to be absolutely pitch black with not a chink of light escaping the sky before they turn on their lights. Must think it pushes up the electricity bill or something to have them on even in dark thunderous downpours.
Also agree with op about the tootling along at 70km/h and its not for safety reasons. It's generally auld lads looking in their neighbours fields to see if they have more cows than them, so not only are they holding up traffic they are not concentrating on the road.

Turn on your headlights!

Amprodude · 27-06-2015 03:10PM

michael999999 wrote: »

Come about 5 o clock next Sunday, there will be plenty cars and a team bus heading for the cork border at full speed!

I hope to avoid. Seriously a great weekend down there though.

crockholm · 27-06-2015 03:10PM

I think you might be on to something OP,that 10 foot wide stream that separates the 2 counties at Ballydesmond obviously has some quasi magical properties whereby on one side everyone drives to the same high standard as yourself yet on the other the ability to drive just plummets,maybe they still think in terms of jarveys or pony and cart.

You should do a thesis on it,I have every confidence in your intellectual capacity to do so.Your talents are clearly wasted on those windy kerry roads.

blueser · 27-06-2015 03:13PM

encore1 wrote: »

And why is it the only county in the country where , coming up to a roundabout, if you intend on going straight ahead, you have to approach on the inside lane?!
I've been saying for years that the driving test must be different down there - if there is one at all!

Eh? It isn't. Any of the myriad roundabouts in Castlebar are laid out the exact same way; first exit or straight on = inside lane, third exit = outside lane.

Amprodude · 27-06-2015 03:13PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

How?

Who did i "piss off"

Motorway drivers trying to drive to the speed limit.

Timberrrrrrrr · 27-06-2015 03:14PM

Amprodude wrote: »

Motorway drivers trying to drive to the speed limit.

You realise I states i was in the left lane right? You know the M50 has 3 lanes right? Anyone who wanted to pass me could do so very easily.

Amprodude · 27-06-2015 03:16PM

crockholm wrote: »

I think you might be on to something OP,that 10 foot wide stream that separates the 2 counties at Ballydesmond obviously has some quasi magical properties whereby on one side everyone drives to the same high standard as yourself yet on the other the ability to drive just plummets,maybe they still think in terms of jarveys or pony and cart.

You should do a thesis on it,I have every confidence in your intellectual capacity to do so.Your talents are clearly wasted on those windy kerry roads.

It's work commitments that I drive on Kerry roads. It's fact this happens there. I have first hand experience every day of it.

fullstop · 27-06-2015 03:17PM

blueser wrote: »

Eh? It isn't. Any of the myriad roundabouts in Castlebar are laid out the exact same way; first exit or straight on = inside lane, third exit = outside lane.

Because that's the way recommended in the ROTR?!

Amprodude · 27-06-2015 03:18PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

You realise I states i was in the left lane right? You know the M50 has 3 lanes right? Anyone who wanted to pass me could do so very easily.

You should have said that. You weren't clear. That would be desperate if you caused a tailback on the motorway itself.

crockholm · 27-06-2015 03:20PM

Amprodude wrote: »

Motorway drivers trying to drive to the speed limit.

I don't think peoples speed on the motorway would be the biggest gripe about motorway usage in Ireland tbf,positioning,I would imagine,would be the biggest.

Amprodude · 27-06-2015 03:21PM

crockholm wrote: »

I think you might be on to something OP,that 10 foot wide stream that separates the 2 counties at Ballydesmond obviously has some quasi magical properties whereby on one side everyone drives to the same high standard as yourself yet on the other the ability to drive just plummets,maybe they still think in terms of jarveys or pony and cart.

You should do a thesis on it,I have every confidence in your intellectual capacity to do so.Your talents are clearly wasted on those windy kerry roads.

Haven't covered that area of Kerry but I couldn't imagine it being too bad if the cars are coming from the Cork side of the border.

Timberrrrrrrr · 27-06-2015 03:22PM

Amprodude wrote: »

You should have said that. You weren't clear. That would be desperate if you caused a tailback on the motorway itself.

Yeah, maybe next rime i will draw a picture for you as well.

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Tell me that at 8 am on a Monday morning :pac:

As for today, yes I could have driven much faster but it was a lovely day we were singing along to his favourite CD and i was in no hurry. 80kph in the left lane was fine and dandy.

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