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Comment from R (Sept 29th 2008) |
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Hi folks, Keep up he great work, I agree with you totally in your campaign. I've
seen a gatso van parked up on the path at an angle on Auburn Avenue and a mother
and child in a pram had to walk out on the busy road to get around it !! Road safety
my ar$e. Average speed camera's on rural roads is the, seen it in the uk and it
works along with proper surveyed speed limits. |
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Comment from R (August 30th 2007) |
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Thanks so much for this. Someone has finally done it, and not a moment too
soon! I wish there was a way to force the government to review and change
the inappropriate speed limits in certain areas (posted speeds both too high and
too low). Maybe you could begin a petition that people could sign online that
could then be presented to them (or the media)? Anyway, keep up the great
work and I wish you all the best of luck. |
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Comment from Harry (August 1st 2007) |
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Contratulations on this initiative.Speed enforcement in Ireland is stupid and illogical
and out of line with the rest of Europe.Ultimately it has nothing to do with saving
lives ad preventing injury and is the result of misplaced Garda management targets.There
are so many issues....you could go on and on. |
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Comment from Dan (July 31st 2007) |
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Well done lads, great website.I ve beeb waiting for years for someone to highlight
this issue of revenue generating speedtraps.Keep up the good work. |
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Comment from Pat (July 24th 2007) |
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Congratulations on the site and well said in your comment pieces. Would you consider
monitoring the number of visitors you get and possibly soliciting their views as
to what you are doing? I would imagine you would attract a lot of support which,
in turn, would give you a mandate to speak for the Irish motorist who likes to move
along at a nice pace, as opposed to the one who likes to take it nice and easy.
I belong to the former category. |
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Comment from Les (July 24th 2007) |
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I admire you for the great work you are doing, I have always said the goverment
were more intrested in making extra revenue then saving lives. I know people that
speed but never use main roads they use rural roads and never get caught. |
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Comment from Ian (July 22nd 2007) |
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The gardai should be spending more time checking that cars don''t get too close
to each other as when (a) following (b) overtaking (c) cornering or (d) right-turning.
One of the reasons for crashes, is, surprise, surprise, that vehicles are needlessly
close to one another, not necessarily that they''re going too fast. The gardai
don''t have a sense of proportion and realism in what they do. |
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Comment from Brian (July 22nd 2007) |
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The old N4 Enfield to Kinnegad now carries an 80Km/H speed limit, despite
previously having a 60 MPH limit before the new motorway opened. For many years
it was the main road west and should rightly have a 100Km/H limit. The present low
limit is specifically designed to frustrate the hundreds of trucks currenlty boycotting
the M4 because of the high tolls being imposed on them. Here we have the authorities
playing business games with speed limits. Its time for an independent traffic regulator
to put an end to the great ripoff. |
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Comment from Mike (July 22nd 2007) |
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In todays SundayIndependent it stated that 8 out of 10 speeding motorists were well
in excess of the speed limits, counteracting claims of over enforcement for minor
breaches. The article also stated that there were over 81000 speeding fines issued
for the first 5 months of the year, therefor we can assume that 20% of those i.e.
over 16000 were fined for minor breaches. Does this not tell its own story about
revenue creation? |
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Comment from Peter (July 22nd 2007) |
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Just a comment on the speed limit madness article on the website. I totally agree.
The Gardai definitely target the wrong roads which is why progress on reducing the
death toll on Irish roads has been slow or non-existent. I have another example.
Last year I was driving through the Donegal countryside on a mountain pass. The
road was, in places, worse than that of Boherbreena. This road had a speedlimit
of 100Kmh. I could barely reach a speed of 50Kmh on this road. If a car drove at
100Kmh on this road it would go straight off the side of the mountain and
the driver would plummet to his / her death.
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