And their driving test is way more thorough
are people walking on major roads?
You’re the one putting up the stats. As a percentage, how many accidents take place on roads they are proposing to reduce the speed limit on.
67%
Not allowed. Fairly simple that one.
They will use it to watch Internet porn and listen to the wolfe tones. Phones are the tool of the devil
We are wasting our time here talking I shit you not and may Tony Keady come down and strike me dead if I tell a lie.
On the way to work there is a straight stretch of road covering approx 4km of bogland that is planted. The road due to its foundation is undulating, it’s surface is not 100% and there is the risk of deer and wild goats crossing the path of traffic. The speed limit is 80kmph.
This morning I was travelling to work. In front of me there was a ‘convoy’ beginning with 3 cars followed by a rigid cattle truck pulling a trailer of a similar size and length, a car behind the trailer and my vehicle. The cars in front of the truck were not disappearing so it is safe to say that they were doing a speed under the limit as I was doing approx 68kmph and keeping a safe distance behind the car that was behind the truck. I was followed by 2 more cars, the first one a BMW and I was watching it as I expected it to attempt to overtake me and progress beyond the 2 vehicles in front of me. However I noticed the HiVIs of a Garda car 3 cars behind me. Hence the BMW’s good behaviour I thought.
At the end of this stretch of road the surface is pretty hazardous with dips in different directions, and as the convoy I was in progressed time and space for what followed was shortening quickly as there was oncoming traffic.
Once the on coming traffic cleared the Garda car edged out and on seeing clear road proceeded to over take the 2 cars behind me, my vehicle, the car in front of me and the truck and trailer in one move, it cut in front of the truck and then decided to overtake the rest of the traffic coming into this hazardous point of the road.
I was thinking to myself, wow, there’s something stirring in town. There have been recent big drug busts etc. They are in a hurry. Then the thought struck me, why didn’t the Garda driving use their blue lights to make the overtake as traffic would have slowed down to allow them pass safely. 
The good news is in any case that there was no emergency, criminal or life threatening. I am happy to report that traffic was held up on the street outside the copshop favoured cafe. I pulled up to allow the Garda lady back into traffic. She was obviously in a rush to pick up her breakfast order.
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Last week I was driving out of town on the N4 approaching the M50 junction at Liffey Valley.
Traffic coming southbound on the M50 merge first and then northbound traffic merges. For traffic coming southbound and going towards Liffey Valley it is quite tricky as you need to cross three lanes and negotiated the traffic merging northbound from the M50.
Anyway on this occasion an oil tanker merged from the southbound traffic. He put on his indicator to come inside. Traffic was heavy and he had difficulty. I came along, flashed the lights and let him across. He put on his flashers to show his appreciation. As I did passed him heading west, he put his arm out the window with a thumb up to me to which I gave a wave.
A positive story for once.
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Be kind 
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Parenthood has changed you man.
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It’s tight enough but worse is trying to get across to the first clondalkin exit on the M7 coming off the M50 southbound. Heart in the mouth stuff.
Bad too coming out of Liffey Valley onto the N4 and across southbound onto M50.
Very short distance.
I try to accommodate people if I’m on the N4 going towards town. I made that trip many times in the past and relied on sound folk to get across.
I enjoy match days when post game, all the muldoons are getting into a queue of traffic in the leftmost lane miles before the M7 turn off.
I stay tipping along the outside before joining it when the road naturally branches out into multiple lanes to the on ramp.
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What is jaywalking that would merit a fine, what kind of barriers are you referencing there?
For me, it is walking across a busy street at random and not using road crossings like when there is a safe facility such as a zebra or pelican crossing within metres of the point where they crossed traffic.
The barriers I refer to are these. There is a zebra crossing on each street here, yet people climb through those barriers to cross the roundabout.
OK, climbing through that or hopping over it is a bit extreme, I’d be a serious enough jaywalker most of the time
Walking on narrow two way roads with no hard shoulder is extremely dangerous.
I think it’s a peculiarly Irish thing. I got pulled up for it in Belgium years ago. Gendarme blew his whistle. Asked to see my ID. “I don’t know about Ireland but in Belgium Stop means stop”
If you tried it in the States the drivers would see you as fair game to be roadkill.
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Imagine a yank driving up to the junction of Ushers Quay and Fr Matthews Bridge…. Be enlightening
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It’s simply too slow - barely above brisk walking pace. More gridlock will ensue and , for certain, accident rates will not decrease as a result.