Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Please note that it is not permitted to have referral links posted in your signature. Keep these links contained in the appropriate forum. Thank you.
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055940817/signature-rules
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055940817/signature-rules
New speed trap M50 northbound
Options
-
13-07-2010 9:54pm#1
Comments
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
Drive at 97km/h or 117km/h at the certain areas on the M50 and you have nothing to worry about!:rolleyes:
without cruise control, how often do you think you need to look at the speedo to maintain 3 km/h accuracy? Much too often, IMO. So you can either do 97 while staring at the speedo or 85/90 with less speedo checking. The over-caution exhibited by drivers in relation to speeding enforcement (ref: drivers braking needlessly from 80km/h above) means the majority will take the (much) slower option.
Then there will be some out to "beat the system" booting it for a while and slowing well below the limit later.
All in all I just think it would make things simultaneously slower and more dangerous. win / win?
Actually, the more I think about it - it sounds right up the RSA's alley... 0 -
without cruise control, how often do you think you need to look at the speedo to maintain 3 km/h accuracy? Much too often, IMO. So you can either do 97 while staring at the speedo or 85/90 with less speedo checking. The over-caution exhibited by drivers in relation to speeding enforcement (ref: drivers braking needlessly from 80km/h above) means the majority will take the (much) slower option.
Then there will be some out to "beat the system" booting it for a while and slowing well below the limit later.
All in all I just think it would make things simultaneously slower and more dangerous. win / win? Actually, the more I think about it - it sounds right up the RSA's alley...
Well I have no difficulty driving at or just below the speed limit! Well if you want to drive like a nutter for a few minutes and then drive as slow as a snell for another 10 minutes, good luck to you!:rolleyes:0 -
-
-
-
If you check the RSA website there have been 3 fatalities on the M50 in the last 3 years. With the amount of traffic that uses it everyday that makes it one of the safest roads in the country. How many speed cameras are there on the dangerous roads where people are actually being killed? The mountain roads beside the M50 are narrow and winding with 50km and 60km limits. These roads are much more dangerous and need speed enforcement, but there are no barrels full of fish there. Instead hit people on the best road in the county, thereby moving people who want to speed onto the dangerous mountain roads or else onto the alternative local roads with several schools where again there are on cameras
So by that logic, When the death rate on the M50 gets high, what ever that number is, then Speed limit enforcement should be done!:rolleyes: 0 -
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
Its about time, but they should be the AVG speed trap camera's place on the overhead gantree's like Up Ulster Way, and across the channel!:rolleyes:
I prefer actuall guards patroling the streets who might notice 8 people shoved into one car
...... instead of being , on average , 12 kmh over the limit on a motorway with a national route speed limit.
Not much point in sending someone a fine 2 weeks later to tell them that they were exceeding the limit when 2 minutes later they killed any number of people. Good driver education and good policing , none of which we have in Ireland when it comes to the roads at the moment , despite the improvements in statistics in the last few years ( which are all down to proper roads and nothing to do with speed cameras , road safety campaigns or Gay Byrne ) :mad:0 -
-
-
Yes I do, and I want a massive clampdown on speeding and Ignorant dangerous driving! Massive fines are the way to go, especially thesedays!:D:D;)
Just because a speed is under the speed limit, does not make it safe.
Just because a speed is over the speed limit, does not make it unsafe.
Speed camera's don't catch morons. They catch people driving fast.0 -
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
With Gaybo and the EU more ANPR or Gatso camera's are coming, like it or not. So the simple message is Buckle Up and Slow Down. Arrive Alive!:)
No they are not. Even if any of the phases of the RSAs plan with reagrd to speed cameras are put in place , we'll still be way off the pace compared to our EU neighbours with reagrds to these things. These plans are in the offing for decades. They dont have the money to put the half of it in place.
OP , you must be very young or blind deaf and dumb to have never heard these same plans being rolled out again and again and again. Speed cameras dont buy votes so expect to see no more thana token gesture of them showing up in the short to medium term.
And lets hope they find the money for real safety improvement i.e upgrading Newlands X so that people dont have to dodge their way across 6 lanes of traffic just to cross a national route connecting 2 major motorways. No one speeds here because they cant yet how many accidents have happened here over the years with people hurt or killed
Im off , Im not sticking around to argue stupid stuff like this, night folks:cool:0
Advertisement