I limiti di velocità sulle strade rurali saranno ridotti dal 7 febbraio, da 80 km / h, con altri da seguire alla fine di quest’anno.
https://www.thejournal.ie/speed-limits-on-rural-roads-to-be-reduced-from-7-february-6604623-Jan2025/
di buzzbaron
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Joke of a country. Lowest deaths ever happened to correlate with covid and lockdown. Deaths last year decreased on the previous. We’re one of the safest in the world. Zero evidence presented on the rationale, just pulled out the ass of some idiots who’ll never be affected and whom I’d suspect live in the Dublin urban area. I pity the couriers ,truckers or anyone else who’s livelihood depends on driving. Not to mention everyone else who drives safely at current limits. This will have zero effect on the drunk/drugged/wreckless/criminals/suicidal drivers out there, but everyone else will have to pay.
>The speed limit on national secondary roads will also reduce from 100km/h to 80km/h [at an unspecified date in 2025].
Time to invest in speed vans.
Delighted to hear. Im living on an 80km road and the speed is gone crazy. Most people are doing well above 80km/hr and driving carelessly. There is loads of junctions and house entrances with kids playing and cyclists using the road.
So, am I right in thinking that the old N11, which was 100 kph not so long ago, will end up being a 60kph road? Even at the current 80 it’s too low a limit on an awful lot of it. And anyone travelling from tramore to Waterford will be driving 60 kph the whole way in. And the Waterford ring road will go back to 60kph after being raised to 80kph years and years ago because 60 was deemed too low. Crazy stuff. Bikes will be undertaking cars by the new time in those 30kph zones.
Great. So I guess the *iT’s A LiMiT nOT a tArGeT* crowd will start driving at 60kph now. Talking about the crowd always driving 20kph below the speed limit like they don’t have jobs to go to.
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It would be great if you could walk or cycle rural Ireland safely, but some cunt in a Fiesta needs to be somewhere.
Ridiculous, this is not a solution at all.
Ah here next they’ll be telling us we can’t drink on them roads
The councils have always had the power to set the speed limits on R roads and mostly chose no to. So we all know they won’t review them now.
Lowering the limit to 60 on a road where 80 is safe is going to get people killed we have no enforcement of speeding. Other than a few speed vans. A lot of people will ignore this charge. But some will follow it. This will lead to traffic buildup and fustrated impatient drivers who will try to over take more than one car at a time. Its going to cause deaths.
I’m wondering what difference it will make to “established” users of the roads. Living in Donegal there’s fuck all garda presence on the roads. Regional roads have been 80km for my entire driving experience.
Why don’t they just ban driving between 23.00 and 07.00 unless you’re a lorry/taxi driver, or have a special permit for that special event? Or ban pedestrians.
It’s all just nonsense.
Okay, can we get a high speed train to commute to work then?
I know a lot seem annoyed at this, but I’ve got some shocking roads near me that will be a lot better at 60.
I think they now run the risk of losing all credibility with speed limits. Even very safety conscious drivers will feel that the limit is too slow for the road. The standard of roads, tires, cars etc have the benefit of decades of incremental improvements, yet they are lowering the speed limits. Imagine investing 100s of millions in a road infrastructure only to slow the entire thing down.
Fall in line
Hey guys, it’s certainly the wrong topic but I’m from Germany and my mum lives in Killawalla, Mayo. I can’t reach her, can someone tell me what the situation is there?
There’s a road near me that’s currently 60km/hr but if you go under 80km/hr on it you get beeped with a line of cars behind you because the road is so wide
Then there’s another road near me that’s essentially a “back road” but it’s good enough that it’s 2 way without a grass verge in the middle. It’s 80km/hr but should be 60km/hr
Roads classification needs to be looked at
With zero enforcement this is going to be a shit show.
Ah, a one size fits all response to a much more nuanced issue. Classic
Government going for the low hanging fruit as always.
Issue here is enforcement and lack of Garda on the roads.
Looks like there will be a lot more overtaking and dangerous overtaking by some drivers.
I live near the old N8 (now R639) and there is a stretch that was 100kph and recently was changed to 80kph. It’s one of the widest, straightest sections of road that’s not Motorway in the country, so It’s totally insane to limit it to 80kph… But here we are.
And what’s that going to do? If they weren’t adhering to the current speed limit, they are definitely not going to adhere to the new one.
Ah great.
Speeders that did 110 on a 100 will keep doing 110 on 80 anyway.
Decent drivers doing 90 – 100 now will be doing 70 – 80, with absolutely pointless journey time increase (dead time).
Turtles that did <80, now I’ll be doing <60. Causing even more multi car overtakes…
For most rural roads, you’d have to be a bit thick to be going at 80 anyways.
Ah fantastic so now I get to add 20 mins to my commute in the morning. What a fucking ridiculous idea. The people who speed won’t pay any attention to this and just dangerously drive behind anyone actually tries follow the speed limits. Load of bollox that only serves to punish commuters by adding more time and bullshit to their commute.
My road is an 80km/h road, narrow, winding, with blind corners. It has been 80km/h since they switched from mph, before that there was no speed posted. My question is why it was ever 80km/h knowing it would always be reduced. Anyone doing 80 would be charged with dangerous driving on my road.
Can they not report it based on what roads specifically will be changed because there seems to be some confusion over the wording used. I’ve assumed by rural roads, they mean the L roads. While the secondary national roads are the R roads.
For the R roads it really should be a road by road basis. Some are crap, while some are very well built and maintained to allow higher speeds.
As for the L roads, how often they hold the 80 sign, a blanket speed limit for all of them, even though driving them will let you know many are nowhere near wide or maintained enough to go 80 (you can try, but it’s dangerousand inconsiderate of other drivers and locals living on those roads), yet a handful could easily retain the 80 limit.
Where’s the road by road basis we were told would happen?
Just fix the roads!
Dara o brien the supreme cunt takes on transform in Ireland
Nobody wants this
Fucking good
So many of these roads are 80 because ah sure yano the turns yourself.