Gov Plans to reduce speed limits

wcooba

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121079629#Comment_121079629

IMO you are right, it’s just disguised as a road safety move but it’s more about emission targets. It was recommended by the NTA few months ago:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41086138.html

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121080818#Comment_121080818

FFS 🙄 Some people's paranoia about Ryan & the Greens is really unhealthy!

Ballincollig Blow In

It’s funny how the government can spring into action when it suits them or the optics look good for them.

Not that long ago, TII basically gave county councillors in Cork the 2 fingers when councillors were pleading with them about known safety issues in certain areas and were trying to get some speed limits lowered.

For example, Councillors highlighted serious safety issues at Rafeen Junction, on the N28 which has seen many accidents (and fatal ones too). TII completely ignored the speed reduction measures put forward by councillors and just plowed ahead with their own recommendations.

This was even after numerous contacts were made, speed reduction recommendations proposed that were also backed the Gardai and local people with local knowledge.

TII weren’t having any of it and so the safety measures and reduced speed limit at Rafeen junction (as one example) were not implemented.

Also, TII speed limit reviews, once endorsed, cannot be revisited by local authorities for five years under current guidelines.

yet now when it suits the Government for what they think will be good PR, there isn’t a km of road in the country that can’t reviewed and possibly changed.

Absolute bullsh*t of the highest degree.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41164048.html

bk

On GPS and valleys, etc. blocking signal, there are two solutions to this:

A-GPS, the version of “GPS” that not only uses overhead satellites, but also works off the signals from cell towers and the accelerometer in the phone. Gives excellent positioning accuracy. Pretty much all smart phones use this.

Dual Band and Multiband GPS, new generation of GPS that uses multiple bands to solve the issue of blocked signals, highly accurate.

The latest devices combine the above two for fantastic accuracy.

Having said all that, I don’t think it is necessary, this isn’t rocket science, just do what pretty much most other European countries have done for the past 30 years, automated cameras and average speed cameras all over the country. And yes even on rural roads. The cost of ANPR tech has come WAY down.

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121080490#Comment_121080490

As for parking a trailer with APNR cameras the roads not wide enough…it would be a hazard because there wouldn’t be enough room for 2 cars on the road. Remember these are country roads not main roads in the country.

There's a simple solution to this. They could park ANPR camera vans (or place fixed cameras) at either end of the dangerous parts of the roads and have average speed enforcement. There would be much more benefit to monitoring average speed on dangerous bends on the road such as the one you describe than on the M7 between birdhill and nenagh for example

The problem is that one is a financially profitable place to put cameras, the other is not

Sam Russell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121080633#Comment_121080633

Mod: This is not really an infrastructure subject.

It has also descended down a rabbit hole.

Now, there are similar threads in motoring, so the discussion can be continued there.

This thread is now closed.