Le modifiche al limite di velocità di oggi ti rendono arrabbiato? Bene, probabilmente dovresti essere infastidito da coloro che stanno diffondendo disinformazione
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Le modifiche al limite di velocità di oggi ti rendono arrabbiato? Bene, probabilmente dovresti essere infastidito da coloro che stanno diffondendo disinformazione
di Amazing-Yak-5415
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No, saving lives rarely gets me riled up
Is it the Russians again Father, spreading the misinformation.
I spoke to two people today who were under the impression that you had to travel at 20 below the posted speed limit.
Just had 2 cars overtake me on the road outside my house in a new 60 zone that used to be 80. Disgrace
This change is on rural, local access roads where most journeys would be short enough. So how long might this add to the average journey on those roads, I’m guessing not much? Is that what some people are getting hissy about?
To be fair, it was communicated very, very poorly. We were under the impression up to this morning that R roads were dropping from 80 to 60 today.
Let’s face it, the change today makes zero difference to actual speeds on 99% of our bóithríní and most L roads. Most locals travel these at well below 60km/h anyway.
It’s quite astounding the mental gymnastics people go through to justify their anger
1. It’ll cause more accidents as more people HAVE to overtake slow cars
2. It’ll use much more fuel because I’ll be driving in 2nd gear
3. It won’t stop people who speed anyway so why bother
4. It won’t reduce accidents because there was a study done in Sweden in 1974, which I can’t find now
5. All journeys will be 33% longer
6. They need to fix the roads first, all of them
7. Only enforcement works, so it’s going to fail
It’s exhausting reading.
At the end of the day, saving lives yada yada, without enforcement it means SFA. They could make the speed limit 10km/h on the road outside my estate but there’s never a Garda or speed van.
Awful communication on it as other people have said it’s no surprise that the vacuum was filled with shite
But anyone doing 80km/h on a L road needs a head examination
Doesn’t matter in Donegal, it’s still being used as a racetrack
Have the affected roads got new or updated signs for the speed?
Is there any online map that shows road names? Some show up on google maps, but not all.
We should set up and spend lots of money on some organization, who has pretty much no real function except to release press releases around road safety, road death figures, car testing and the likes. Call it the Road Safety Association or something, maybe then we’d get clear communication about the likes of these changes.
Took me two minutes longer to reach my job this morning.
Just leaving Dublin for Inishowen Donegal now. Definitely going via Belfast for the foreseeable future.
I don’t care about rural roads (80kmh was insane on a lot of them), I’m just mad at the 30kmh limit in Limerick City which preceded this.
I’m still a bit confused by it to be honest.
Did they update the signs? Some 80 roads are 60 now, but not all?
They can drop the limits all they want, but as anyone who drives any N road in this country can at test, if you drive the limit you will be constantly over taken.
Enforcement is the key really.
This is a brilliant article. Wish it has been posted earlier and there should be fair mode clarity from news providers to the same. And not just Irish over the headlines
Don’t tell me who to be annoyed at
Will Google Maps show the new correct speed?
I’m gonna keep driving the same speed until I get stopped for speeding. Then I will think about it.
I had two fellas in the office that were convinced the N18 between Limerick and Shannon was dropping to 80. I kept telling them there’s no way a dual carriageway is dropping that low but they were convinced. I eventually googled what roads exactly it was and set them straight
But I would agree with other commenters, terrible communication over the whole thing
The government making a bollox of things? That’s new and very unlike them.