Dublin to lower speed limit to 30Km/h (around20Mph)

cntl
cntl Posts: 290
edited August 2007 in Commuting chat
A reduced speed limit of 30km/h for motorists in Dublin is to be introduced by the city council.

The introduction of the limit, down from the present 50km/h, is imminent and other cities are likely to follow suit.

more here:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0803/roads.html

Comments

  • BentMikey
    BentMikey Posts: 4,895
    Excellent! Although if they did it in London I'm not sure it would actually help the cars go faster, since they all average less than that.
  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    Do cars in Ireland have their speedos marked in kph?
    This post contains traces of nuts.
  • CarKiller
    CarKiller Posts: 60
    It's one thing having a law, it's another thing entirely enforcing i.t.

    How are they going to do that?
  • mazcp
    mazcp Posts: 953
    I'd've thought they'd be Dublin the speed limit, not reducing it.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 992
    dondare wrote:
    Do cars in Ireland have their speedos marked in kph?

    Yes, they are fully european.

    8)
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  • adifiddler
    adifiddler Posts: 113
    The 20 MPH speed limit has not made much difference in Portsmouth but the thing that maters for me is that if they do hit someone the police will determine the cars speed and if they were found to be going faster than 20mph they will have to justify there actions in court.
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  • lost-time
    lost-time Posts: 549
    About 8 years ago my other-half-to-be took me to ROI to meet her family ( yes she is 100% Irish ) and our hire car was in KPH and so were the speed limit signs yet the distances were in miles! How Oirish was that? Obviously many a joke was made..
  • PHcp
    PHcp Posts: 2,748
    CarKiller wrote:
    It's one thing having a law, it's another thing entirely enforcing i.t.

    How are they going to do that?

    They said the same about seat belt law.
    They said the same about drink driving.
    They said the same about mobile phone use.

    The effect isn't instant, it takes time. Campaigning to keep it high profile and a positive attitude helps.
  • CarKiller
    CarKiller Posts: 60
    And they're still saying the same thing if they're not petrol-head libertarian fools!

    Driving is as close to unregulated as it can be ni this country!
  • Aidocp
    Aidocp Posts: 868
    cntl wrote:
    A reduced speed limit of 30km/h for motorists in Dublin is to be introduced by the city council.

    The introduction of the limit, down from the present 50km/h, is imminent and other cities are likely to follow suit.

    more here:
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0803/roads.html

    I was in Dublin last week and my mate told me about this, I hope it works. Here a lot of residential estates are 20mph, the only town wide scheme I've seen so far in Scotland is Caldercruix and nots big.
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  • pedro_d
    pedro_d Posts: 34
    lost-time wrote:
    About 8 years ago my other-half-to-be took me to ROI to meet her family ( yes she is 100% Irish ) and our hire car was in KPH and so were the speed limit signs yet the distances were in miles! How Oirish was that? Obviously many a joke was made..

    yeah, we had that one for a while, quite an embarrassment! It's changed now though, all the distances are in KM
  • blorg
    blorg Posts: 1,169
    lost-time wrote:
    About 8 years ago my other-half-to-be took me to ROI to meet her family ( yes she is 100% Irish ) and our hire car was in KPH and so were the speed limit signs yet the distances were in miles! How Oirish was that? Obviously many a joke was made..
    It was the other way around eight years ago, (most) distances were in km but speed limits were in miles. The speed limits were finally changed over to km/h in Jan 2005.
  • joeconway
    joeconway Posts: 7
    "About 8 years ago my other-half-to-be took me to ROI to meet her family ( yes she is 100% Irish ) and our hire car was in KPH and so were the speed limit signs yet the distances were in miles! How Oirish was that? Obviously many a joke was made.."

    Yeah we did that on purpose to keep the Brit visitors over from the "Mainland" confused and amused.
  • blorg
    blorg Posts: 1,169
    In fairness it was a bit of a mess for quite some time, in particular the random mixture of units on directional signs. You had to learn to distinguish the likely unit by the age of the sign. Even when units appeared consistent, the distance to the next town on many a rural sign would be as likely to increase as decrease as you got closer to it.

    In light of this the overnight swapping of the speed limits was quite a surprise to many!
  • pedro_d
    pedro_d Posts: 34
    I, for one, am glad the powers decided to put everything in KM.

    Blorg: is that you from boards.ie? If so, it's K Raam here, if not, well, it's still me

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