Give it two weeks before it’s shut down as they accidentally set the speed limit to 12km/h instead of 120
Should introduce these all over the place.
120 is plenty. Less in the UK with much better motorways.
Bastards. Thank God the Punto can barely reach 115
As a well maintained motorway, I assume that it is quite safe for speeds above 120, so why introduce this? Surely there are plenty of black spots and dangerous roads in Ireland that would benefit more.
Is there the same system for people who drive dangerously slow?
Waste of money. How many people die on motorways each year through speeding?
Nothing but revenue generation.
Motorways are statistically the safest roads in the country.
There is going to be a lot of ‘dirty’ number plates around the midlands now.
Imagine a speeding fine landing in your letter box every day cause some lad driving to Dublin everyday changes a 6 to an 8 😩
A lot of people here are complaining that it’s a cash grab but it can also be used for controlling emissions. Fuel economy reduces at higher speeds. I just moved to the Netherlands and discovered that the speed limits on motorways are only 100 during the day for this reason.
Well you’ve got to pay for the Dole and Direct Provision somehow lol.
Queue people driving 125 kmh anyway
Revenue raising
Hopefully they will constantly remind people between the two cameras or I can imagine someone loosing concentration and not being 100% sure if they were averaging under 120km/h and slowing down to 80km/h for the last km, just in case. That would be dangerous.
Cunts
Why ?
I guess that pandemic payment has to come from somewhere.
Red Light Cameras would generate 1000x the revenue.
120 Kph on your speedometer is not 120 Kph – turn on Google Maps and watch the speed indicator whilst doing 120 using your cruise control – you will see it is ‘out’ by at least 5 Kph – car manufacturers do not set the speedo with 100% accuracy so they won’t be blamed for you exceeding a limit.
Find out what your car speedo is at when you look at the online maps – mine is 127 Kph
So then I set 127 Kph on my cruise control and watch out for 100 Kph signs etc.
Absolutely nothing wrong with doing 100 mph at 2am on an empty dry motorway.
Anyone else feel like this will have the opposite effect? basically for a 15km stretch everyone will obey the limit. once outside this stretch they will speed far in excess of the limit to make up the time.
In my opinion every motorway should be like the autobahn. You see barely any incidents on the autobahn and people are going 250+kmh on it. Just like the autobahn, some parts should have speed limits, some shouldnt.
Could they just leave us alone for a couple of months please. Always fuckin something.
Nothing that a little spray of paint can’t fix.
Cruise control is your friend.
Meanwhile, the autobahn exists and is even considered one of the safest’s highways in Europe so…. pure cash grab is all.
Motorways are by far the safest roads we have. They won’t tackle lethal national roads with 100km limits and hairpin bends but will shaft someone doing 130km on a motorway. If they tackled genuine public safety issues, like anti-social behaviour on our streets with as much graft we’d have a much better off society. Can’t bleed those for cash, however.
Think this is a great idea. Hate those spot checks where you might accidentally be going a bit over the limit, even if you generally drive at a safe speed.
People here are talking also about the Dublin M50 – which is really the N50 but anyway if drivers were to ‘keep left – overtake right’ and indicate when changing lanes it would remove a lot of issues on that ‘motorway’
Speed cameras aren’t the answer. We need snipers on fly-overs and heavy machine guns on hilltops overlooking motorways. Only way to be sure.
Isn’t there a similar system in place in the port tunnel ? Or am I mistaken ?
Grateful that my little Yaris’s engine starts screaming at me if I try and push her over 110kmph.
In this thread: people complaining as if 120 kph was a grotesque imposition on their civil rights.
Oh thank god! Really surprised it’s not the M4…. All 200 meters of it
These things are a tax on not having cruise control.
Country over run with scrotes robbing people. This is what enforcement money is spent on
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Took them long enough to test it.
Pure money grab.
Good.
Give it two weeks before it’s shut down as they accidentally set the speed limit to 12km/h instead of 120
Should introduce these all over the place.
120 is plenty. Less in the UK with much better motorways.
Bastards. Thank God the Punto can barely reach 115
As a well maintained motorway, I assume that it is quite safe for speeds above 120, so why introduce this? Surely there are plenty of black spots and dangerous roads in Ireland that would benefit more.
Edit: I had a look at the RSA’s map of accidents, https://www.rsa.ie/road-safety/statistics/collisions and noted there has been 1 fatality on that stretch of motorway from 2005 – 2016, the rest is on the smaller roads, see: https://imgur.com/gallery/4AfUDLE
Is there the same system for people who drive dangerously slow?
Waste of money. How many people die on motorways each year through speeding?
Nothing but revenue generation.
Motorways are statistically the safest roads in the country.
There is going to be a lot of ‘dirty’ number plates around the midlands now.
Imagine a speeding fine landing in your letter box every day cause some lad driving to Dublin everyday changes a 6 to an 8 😩
A lot of people here are complaining that it’s a cash grab but it can also be used for controlling emissions. Fuel economy reduces at higher speeds. I just moved to the Netherlands and discovered that the speed limits on motorways are only 100 during the day for this reason.
https://www.mpgforspeed.com/
Well you’ve got to pay for the Dole and Direct Provision somehow lol.
Queue people driving 125 kmh anyway
Revenue raising
Hopefully they will constantly remind people between the two cameras or I can imagine someone loosing concentration and not being 100% sure if they were averaging under 120km/h and slowing down to 80km/h for the last km, just in case. That would be dangerous.
Cunts
Why ?
I guess that pandemic payment has to come from somewhere.
Red Light Cameras would generate 1000x the revenue.
120 Kph on your speedometer is not 120 Kph – turn on Google Maps and watch the speed indicator whilst doing 120 using your cruise control – you will see it is ‘out’ by at least 5 Kph – car manufacturers do not set the speedo with 100% accuracy so they won’t be blamed for you exceeding a limit.
Find out what your car speedo is at when you look at the online maps – mine is 127 Kph
So then I set 127 Kph on my cruise control and watch out for 100 Kph signs etc.
Absolutely nothing wrong with doing 100 mph at 2am on an empty dry motorway.
Anyone else feel like this will have the opposite effect? basically for a 15km stretch everyone will obey the limit. once outside this stretch they will speed far in excess of the limit to make up the time.
In my opinion every motorway should be like the autobahn. You see barely any incidents on the autobahn and people are going 250+kmh on it. Just like the autobahn, some parts should have speed limits, some shouldnt.
Could they just leave us alone for a couple of months please. Always fuckin something.
Nothing that a little spray of paint can’t fix.
Cruise control is your friend.
Meanwhile, the autobahn exists and is even considered one of the safest’s highways in Europe so…. pure cash grab is all.
Motorways are by far the safest roads we have. They won’t tackle lethal national roads with 100km limits and hairpin bends but will shaft someone doing 130km on a motorway. If they tackled genuine public safety issues, like anti-social behaviour on our streets with as much graft we’d have a much better off society. Can’t bleed those for cash, however.
Think this is a great idea. Hate those spot checks where you might accidentally be going a bit over the limit, even if you generally drive at a safe speed.
People here are talking also about the Dublin M50 – which is really the N50 but anyway if drivers were to ‘keep left – overtake right’ and indicate when changing lanes it would remove a lot of issues on that ‘motorway’
Speed cameras aren’t the answer. We need snipers on fly-overs and heavy machine guns on hilltops overlooking motorways. Only way to be sure.
Isn’t there a similar system in place in the port tunnel ? Or am I mistaken ?
Grateful that my little Yaris’s engine starts screaming at me if I try and push her over 110kmph.
In this thread: people complaining as if 120 kph was a grotesque imposition on their civil rights.
Oh thank god! Really surprised it’s not the M4…. All 200 meters of it
These things are a tax on not having cruise control.
Country over run with scrotes robbing people. This is what enforcement money is spent on