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Dublin - Killarney

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    #32
    kermit_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭kermit_ie


    If they did that, they'd encougage more rat racers to go that way. That road is grand, because f-all people know about it ;)

    The new bypass comes out on the Dublin road, at the old turn off for Newport...


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    #33
    AMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭AMurphy


    kermit_ie wrote:
    If they did that, they'd encougage more rat racers to go that way. .......

    The ultimate Traffic Calming device.... make the road so dangerous you'd not pass crawling speed... Crude but effective.

    Thx.


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    #34
    bonzai bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 535 ✭✭✭bonzai bob


    just back, decent drive. You don't even need a map as long as you know the roads you have to stick too. It took over 5 hours to get there:( But the drive back was only 4 hours. I'm just glad to be back. The last hour drive is a killer!


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    #35
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,402 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    AMurphy wrote:
    Teh reason I observed it was I was cutting across some by roads between the UL are and the Tipp road, when I encountered an overpass across the little backroad. However, "typical Half assed execution", was one comment that came to mind at the intersection of the two. Right at the overpass, the little road I was on had a nasty wrinkle of twists & turns.
    You realise they did bypass part of the Tipperary Road?


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    #36
    AMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭AMurphy


    Didn't have time to rediscover the trafic routing about Limerick at the time, so I'll believe you.


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    #37
    AMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭AMurphy


    bonzai bob wrote:
    ....... The last hour drive is a killer!

    Pretty good,
    So what was your max speed, we know your average, 40 & 50.

    The last hour into Dub is where I find the frustration level reaching "active volcano" level also, which might explain why I stop for an "unwind", which might also explain why it takes me an hour longer than average.

    So apart fromt he driving, how was the rest of the weekend, "Mission Accomplished", Y/N?


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    #38
    bonzai bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 535 ✭✭✭bonzai bob


    i'd say yes, it's a nice part of the country, i haven't really explored any kind of countryside in my lifetime, so my girlfriend thought it was 'weird' that i had never walked barefoot in a lake surrounded by mountains before. That was the highlight for me. That and standing on the balcony of the hotel with a view over the lake and mountains as the sun went down. Tis a good hotel, www.lakehotel.ie, great views! We stayed in the superior room.

    Of course my max speed was 120 on the M7;) but i may have 'accidentally' crept over that on the way back, accidentally of course. I find motorists, and people in general, are nicer in the country, more than happy to pull in for you and let you by, that was a nice surprise!


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    #39
    AMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭AMurphy


    Ah, well your pending arrival was an international item of discussion. So you were expected. Not everyone gets that treatment on their maiden voyage to the West. TTFN :D


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