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Speed Limit on Outter Ring Road - Calls for Increase

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    #182
    7upfree
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    Hoffmans wrote: »
    yes 80 from b&q to jons park ,60 on to tesco then past the pony and trappers

    FFS. Can't they do anything right? What difference does it make if the last section is 80??


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    #183
    Sully
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    7upfree wrote: »
    FFS. Can't they do anything right? What difference does it make if the last section is 80??

    Assume its due to it being a populated area.


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    #184
    Dum_Dum
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    7upfree wrote: »
    FFS. Can't they do anything right? What difference does it make if the last section is 80??

    So you won't run into the back of anyone turning out of the golf course/horse & cart emporium.


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    #185
    gscully
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    7upfree wrote: »
    FFS. Can't they do anything right? What difference does it make if the last section is 80??

    The last section is the only section containing entrances and exits (Golf Club, halting site and playing fields).

    For the simple reason that cars would be braking at these points, or integrating into traffic, it makes sense to keep it at 60.


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    #186
    S28382
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    I seen two roads signs on a stretch of road in KK that were about 20feet apart and they had different speed limits on them the first one said 60 the second 80 i mean wtf is that all about? id say the company that makes the road signs is laughing all the way to the bank with all these signs going up.


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    #187
    Bards
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    Bards wrote: »
    Looks like this is up for discussion again at this months City Council Meeting

    http://www.waterfordcity.ie/documents/meetings/council/2012/Agenda%20-%2010th%20Sept%202012.doc


    5. DRAFT SPECIAL– SPEED LIMIT BYE LAWS
    Report attached


    So I can only hope it is to implement the New Bye Laws (http://www.waterfordcity.ie/documents/notices/Waterford%20City%20Special%20Speed%20Limit%20Bye%20Laws%202012.doc)



    New Bye-Laws don;'t take effect until 11th October 2012
    http://www.waterfordcity.ie/documents/notices/ORR-ByeLaws2012.pdf


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    #188
    Bards
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    Bards wrote: »
    Here's the link

    http://www.kilkennycoco.ie/eng/Services/Roads/Special_Speed_Limit_Bye-Laws/Road_Traffic_Special_Speed_Limit_Bye-Laws_2012.html

    The proposed bye-laws include the following amendments to the previously adopted special speed limit bye-laws:


    special speed limit of 80kph at Granagh to Newrath Roundabout, from Newrath Roundabout to Sallypark and to the junction with the Old New Ross Road at Slieverue.

    Just passed by Sallypark this morning - Speed Limit Signs are now 80 Km/H from Sallypark to Newrath Roundabout - Up from 60 Km/h


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    #189
    callaway92
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    Obv I have no proof or anything, but it wouldn't surprise me to see the Speed Cameras out in full force once the limit is officially 80km/h.

    My spidey sences make me fell that anyway.


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    #190
    spankmemunkey
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    This is an old thread, What gets me on this ORR is that when your in the left lane and approaching a roundabout intending to keep going straight and some tosser tries to get in in front of you approaching a roundabout and breaking before hes fully in the lane in front of you the amount of times ive had people do this to me i can only imagine what theyd be like when they are allowed to drive at 80, and as for people lane swerving when they are on the roundabout holy god, not to mention the people who dont know how to indicate properly at all not just the ones who choose not to.

    When and if the speed increases youll have to be so much more vigilant for the drivers who dont know how to drive and theres a hell of alot of them on that road.


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    #191
    Bards
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    So, today is the 11th and New bye-Laws come into force. any sightings of new speed limit signs reflectig the new legal limit?


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    #192
    dazftw
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    callaway92 wrote: »
    Obv I have no proof or anything, but it wouldn't surprise me to see the Speed Cameras out in full force once the limit is officially 80km/h.

    My spidey sences make me fell that anyway.

    Doesn't there have to have been an accident on the road to allow them to do it?

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    #193
    CardBordWindow
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    dazftw wrote: »
    Doesn't there have to have been an accident on the road to allow them to do it?
    I think that's just the sub-contracted speed traps. The Gardaí can set up anywhere. (not 100%)


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    #194
    nkay1985
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    Bards wrote: »
    So, today is the 11th and New bye-Laws come into force. any sightings of new speed limit signs reflectig the new legal limit?

    I didn't drive home that way today but you'd usually see the new signs with black plastic covering them in advance.


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    #195
    al20v
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    60km/h Sighs were removed earlier today.
    No sighs on majority of the Orr
    Later on passed a chap getting pulled wonder did he realised .....


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    #196
    wellboytoo
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    Me and about eighty per cent of motorists have been doing 80 kph on it since the day it opened.


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    #197
    spankmemunkey
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    wellboytoo wrote: »
    Me and about eighty per cent of motorists have been doing 80 kph on it since the day it opened.

    Theres always a Guard doin speed checks on the roundabout between six cross roads roundabout and the the butlerstown roundabout and ive seen him pull a few drivers!

    I have noticed that when you come from the new toll bridge onto the outter ring road there is a speed of 80 up until the strectch where you pass B+Q that goes back to 60 or it useto.


    All the above aside i was coming down onto the outter ring road after a school drop this morn and i saw the workers takin down speed signs and replaced them from 60 to 80 going onto the outter ring road so it must be changed, havent clocked any new 80 signs on the outter ring road though


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    #198
    wellboytoo
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    spankmemunkey wrote: »
    Theres always a Guard doin speed checks on the roundabout between six cross roads roundabout and the the butlerstown roundabout and ive seen him pull a few drivers!

    I have noticed that when you come from the new toll bridge onto the outter ring road there is a speed of 80 up until the strectch where you pass B+Q that goes back to 60 or it useto.


    All the above aside i was coming down onto the outter ring road after a school drop this morn and i saw the workers takin down speed signs and replaced them from 60 to 80 going onto the outter ring road so it must be changed, havent clocked any new 80 signs on the outter ring road though

    Better start doin' the ton on it then!:D


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    #199
    witless1
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    al20v wrote: »
    60km/h Sighs were removed earlier today.
    No sighs on majority of the Orr
    Later on passed a chap getting pulled wonder did he realised .....


    I drove on it yesterday evening, the B&Q section is now 80 and is signed for it. The ORR had no signs at all so I drove at 80 the whole way since the last road I was on said 80 :) I came back that way and from the Ardkeen side you had 2 signs saying 60 but no more signs after that. You could see where the confusion would come from though if you were pulled in. You would certainly have a case to argue if you were heading towards Ardkeen.


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    #200
    spankmemunkey
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    witless1 wrote: »
    I drove on it yesterday evening, the B&Q section is now 80 and is signed for it. The ORR had no signs at all so I drove at 80 the whole way since the last road I was on said 80 :) I came back that way and from the Ardkeen side you had 2 signs saying 60 but no more signs after that. You could see where the confusion would come from though if you were pulled in. You would certainly have a case to argue if you were heading towards Ardkeen.

    I think there will always be an excuse from now on! Although i know there are sign posts with the speeds taken down maybe they havent got around to changing them, I think you have the Butlerstown one and then Carrickpherish and then six cross roads road about, I think its called Carrickpherish, from that roundabout down to six cross roads had got sign posts saying 60, very very small ones mind, they are now gone! theres a school up off the carrickpherish roundabout and that road was 80 and its now down to 60 so theres changes going on! still watch out for the cop with the speed gun on the carrickpherish roundabout looking down as your coming from six cross roads direction.

    There was a speed camera van as you come off the ORR roundabout to go to Cherrymount, the road is in an S as you come off it and the van was right on a bend to catch people doing 60 as i thought it still was, I thought it was kinda sly being that close to the outter ring road i know people sometimes take time to adjust their speed so its like they knew that too and thought we'll catch a few here!


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    #201
    200motels
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    On the first part of the ring road where the golf course is that apparently will stay at 60kmh.


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    #202
    Bards
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    200motels wrote: »
    On the first part of the ring road where the golf course is that apparently will stay at 60kmh.

    No Apparantly about it. It Definately will stay at 60 Km/H from the Farronshoneen r/a to the Airport Road r/a as that is what the Bye-Laws define.


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    #203
    Jason Todd
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    wellboytoo wrote: »
    Better start doin' the ton on it then!:D

    I know you're messing but that would be my only concern about the change. I've been doing 80 on it most weekdays on the majority of the stretch, especially if I'm passing someone out but it was always safe to do so, I don't think the road is built food a majority to do 100k as I fear most will.

    One thing is, the stretch from B&Q up to Carrickphierish (Genzyme) is 50k and it sees a lot of travelers speeding towards the halting site there, I would hope the Guards would do something about that. Fcukin ridiculous speeds they go, nearly always in english reg cars. One even passed me and an armored Garda van the other night and the Guards just kept driving! I'm hoping they called it in, but the traveller bombed past everyone, swerving between lanes, very dangerous. I know it was a traveller as it was parked in the halting site when I passed a few minutes later. When I got home, I mentioned it to the girlfriend and she said the same car nearly took the side off her car earlier on the same stretch. :mad::mad:


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    #204
    witless1
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    Jason Todd wrote: »
    One thing is, the stretch from B&Q up to Carrickphierish (Genzyme) is 50k

    That got upgraded as well, I was on it yesterday and the signs are now 60. It might stop the idiots overtaking on it. I stick to 50 on that section knowing the cops would be there but when I was learning to drive the combination of an L plate and sticking to the 50 meant I was overtaken on a daily basis.

    Does anyone know if the road off that Carrickphierish roundabout, the one that takes you over to the back of Gracedieu, has been upgraded? That used to be 50 as well and is painfully slow to get across!!


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    #205
    Jason Todd
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    witless1 wrote: »
    That got upgraded as well, I was on it yesterday and the signs are now 60. It might stop the idiots overtaking on it. I stick to 50 on that section knowing the cops would be there but when I was learning to drive the combination of an L plate and sticking to the 50 meant I was overtaken on a daily basis.

    Does anyone know if the road off that Carrickphierish roundabout, the one that takes you over to the back of Gracedieu, has been upgraded? That used to be 50 as well and is painfully slow to get across!!

    I know, I live on it! And it is a good road too, I think the limit might be so because of all the estates and lots of kids being around maybe? There is planning permission for a school to go there too.


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    #206
    spankmemunkey
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    spankmemunkey wrote: »
    I think there will always be an excuse from now on! Although i know there are sign posts with the speeds taken down maybe they havent got around to changing them, I think you have the Butlerstown one and then Carrickpherish and then six cross roads road about, I think its called Carrickpherish, from that roundabout down to six cross roads had got sign posts saying 60, very very small ones mind, they are now gone! theres a school up off the carrickpherish roundabout and that road was 80 and its now down to 60 so theres changes going on! still watch out for the cop with the speed gun on the carrickpherish roundabout looking down as your coming from six cross roads direction.

    There was a speed camera van as you come off the ORR roundabout to go to Cherrymount, the road is in an S as you come off it and the van was right on a bend to catch people doing 60 as i thought it still was, I thought it was kinda sly being that close to the outter ring road i know people sometimes take time to adjust their speed so its like they knew that too and thought we'll catch a few here!


    I made a mistake there i was referring to the carrickpherish roundabout when i was suppose to be saying Ballycashin roundabout.


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