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Limerick councillors want to increase speed limits on city road

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  • 21-11-2017 3:56pm
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    zulutango
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    They say you get the politicians you deserve, and if that's true we must have done something really bad to deserve this bunch.

    They want to increase the speed limit on a road with cycle lanes through a wildlife sanctuary and leisure amenity. On the very same road there has been a number of fatalities in recent years.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057811364


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    marienbad
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    About time - 50 kph was always ridiculous


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    myshirt
    Registered Users Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    I don't like this mantra of 'we only agreed to the cycle lanes and bus lane in order to get the funding'

    What sort of clowns are we dealing with?

    Bus lane infrastructure and cycling infrastructure needs to be developed, not strangled. These guys are now coming out of the long grass and stating quite clearly they were never onside in the first place. Limerick has such potential but we are constantly held back by these parish pump idiots.

    As to this one, I have heard it many times from people pissed off about that road. I'm not an engineer, but if they move the cycle lanes on to the path (and there is plenty of room), will this be ok?


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    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    marienbad wrote: »
    About time - 50 kph was always ridiculous

    No, it wasn't. There's a number of pedestrian crossings on the road. There's a cycle lane in each direction. It goes through a wildlife sanctuary and leisure amenity. And a number of people were killed along it in recent years, including a school child. It only makes sense to increase it if you ignore all the above.


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