IRISH SPEED LIMIT SIGNS

Sounds like once agene the justice system failed.

I drive those road works every day going to work and coming home and some of those speed restrictions are well stupid. It can be a 60 zone and there isn’t a sole working then 10 metres down the road it’s a 100 zone and there are people working WTF.

Then when you see some poor sod getting Booked by some F**k of a cop at 5:10am when there is no workers even on site yet that just makes you angry.

Gerry ,
That is seriously unfair . Maybe he should have got main roads to make a statement for the court .

Exploder,
Gees your an excitable lad , but I fully agree with you - tooling through a 40 kph zone on a week end , feeling like an idiot and some guys up your clacker , but maybe , just maybe , there is some zealous cop waiting to fill his quota at the other end , so you crawl to the end of it , grinding your teeth .

Been there .......

Willie,
Fair comment :)

Exploder,
Used to have to try fixing problems for people like you whether I liked them or not, whether they insulted me or not, or whether they were worthy human beings or not. Luckily 98% made the effort worthwhile. Since retirement have found it is rather pleasurable to have the choice to refuse and tell people like you to "reap what you sow". Considered criticism and opinion are welcome, but generalised insults are not appreciated. There are always the few in all jobs that do not come up to scratch and deserve a serve, but you just managed to insult 50,000+ australia wide commenting on what may or may not be an urban myth. :(

PK

What, come agene.

and
How did I insult 50,000+ Australians, and What urban myth would you be talking about.

Hi Exploder.

I think your
Booked by some F**k of a cop at 5:10am
might have pushed a button with PK.

PK:
the roadworks are being done along a long - prob over 20km at times - of the main southern freeway from Perth city and south so that a railway can be built down the middle of the freeway - or in between the two carriageways is a better way of saying it. It's been going on for years it seems, and still with a year to go most likely. Road signage and the speeds zonings have been highly contraversial and well documented over the entire project - with a lot of slow, fast, a bit slower, fast, very slow sections, lane realigning - it's all just a real big headache. Certainly some of the deviations and speed zones just don't make any sense and it's easy to see why people get really cranky at things that have been going on for so long, really disruptive and not appearing to make sense.

You gotta admit that for all the good coppers around, there are some that do things that don't help build a public perception they are there for the safety of all. I'm not chucking stones, I'm a social worker so my profession also suffers from the damned if you do, damned if you don't mentality.

I'm fortunate to not have to drive that section more than once a fortnight or so, but for an excitable chap - it'd play on your mind for sure.

Tim

In a follow-up to Tim's post, it appears that the situation is frequently changing on the Kwinana freeway, almost day to day, depending on where work is being done. Main Roads must have put up the 60 sign, and forgotten to pull down the 80 sign on the other side of the carriageway. Whatever, (a) the cops should have picked this anomoly up when setting up the speed trap, and (b), the judge could have been a bit more lenient regarding what is "admissible" evidence. After all, the court takes speed camera photos as admissible evidence. If the guy being booked had realised before going to court that it was not admissible, he might have structured his defence differently. Anyway, in this case, the law in the public eye was seen to be an ass.
(hope I'm not charged for contempt for this posting)
Don't get me wrong, I get quite cheesed off when I see people doing 90 or 100 through the 60 zones on this freeway when work is going on, and you wonder where are the cops.
Gerry

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This often happens at a change of speeds where larikins twist one of the signs round.

PeterD

larrikans ............... or Urban Terrorists?

Freedom fighters LOL

I agree - in some ways it would be a very sensible set of signs - ever passed a roadtrain thats doing 95, but keeping your speed legal at 110? I will never consider it safe to drive alongside over 100 tonnes on the wrong side of the road for any great leangth of time. It would be hard to administer, but I consider it justifyable to exeed the speed limit of 110 when overtaking, especially long vehicles.

Cheers Andrew

Andrew B,

I agree re overtaking. The less time hanging in the breeze the better.

Hi Patrick ,

Yes , we stuck to the speed limits there and in England and I reckon at times we were passed by cars doing double our speed . I was amazed at how fast they drove on those narrow , hedge lined , winding lanes - made my co-pilot and I rather nervous at times .

The roads around Dublin are carparks during the week .

Did you drive around Dingle ? What a beautiful area . We did not get any further north than Dublin . We only had the car for 6 days and we thought we would have a thorough trip through the south instead of trying to go everywhere in a big hurry . Maybe one day we will get back and check out the north .

Cheers ,

Willie .

Hi Willie,

Our first part of the trip was a guided coach tour that departed Dublin and went through all the major southern towns, Killarney, Waterford and up to Galway. The highlight was the Ring of Kerrie which a sight to behold. The Dingle peninsula was on our itinerary but just did not make it there.

When we got back to Dublin and picked up a hire car (Honda CRV 2L Diesel) and headed north. We travel to the rope bridge, Giants Causeway across to very top of Ireland (cant remember the name) then down through Derry, Sligo and onto Westport on the West Coast In all we drove 2,500 Klms and got less than 5Ltrs per hundred from the Honda. Not bad considering it was carrying three adults and enough baggage for four people thanks to the mother-in-law. Ten days in all which was terrific.

There is so much history to see that you can become a bit blasé seeing castles and ruins. The thing that will stick in my mind will be the huge amount of stone hedges that separate the paddocks. Built so long ago that no one can remember when. The other thing was the 1002 year old Viking fort in Waterford - what a sight to see besides the main street.

Ireland is such a beautiful place with its 45 shades of green. The Guinness was good and the hospitality grand. Love to go back, this time just the wife and I.

We were really lucky to have had a chance to see this spectacular place and its people even if they do speed!

Cheers, Patrick

Yes , that is exceptional Neville .
Willie .