Dublin speed limits
Posted on | August 3, 2007 | 36 Comments
Motorists will have to drive much slower in Dublin after it was decided to cut the current sped limit from 50kmh to 30kmh. It will apply throughout Dublin city centre and along the quays. The far slower speed limit is being introduced to help prevent the deaths of cyclists and pedestrians, sources claim.
You know, if pedestrians learned how to fucking cross the road properly it might help more than making cars go slower. Seriously, it’s like a game of Frogger out there sometimes.
And I don’t see how cars going slower will help cyclists with their no lights, no reflective clothing and lack of signals before they pull out directly in front of you.
They should allow cars to go faster. That’d make pedestrians and cyclists take more care.
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August 3rd, 2007 @ 1:04 pm
tis right, Darwin knew what he was talking about,
Nowadays since we don’t have dinosaurs running around eating the old, the weak, the slow, the poor,
sure we need something to thin the herd.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 2:00 pm
Don’t worry about it, Twenty.
Everyone will ignore the limit anyway.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 2:03 pm
As a confirmed walker and cyclist, cars can fuck right off. Anytime I’m at home in the country I have to literally get up onto the ditch with the fcukers not dimming their lights. It’s not fun being blinded by a car coming at you 60mph on a country road.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 2:10 pm
You could always introduce a cash incentive to whoever helps the Gene pool by removing the slower cyclists.
Bonus points the smaller the car you use. It’s just to easy to wipe out a slew of cyclists using a 4×4 or Artic.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 2:10 pm
They should ban cars from the city centre altogether.
I fucking hate cars.
And pedestrian lights should change within 10 seconds of the button being pushed, like in all other civilized countries.
Don’t get me started on this shit…
August 3rd, 2007 @ 2:11 pm
Fucking Priceless! I couldn’t tell you the last time I saw car going 10 kmh thorugh the city centre let alone 50kmh…
August 3rd, 2007 @ 2:54 pm
if thinning the herd is what is required, you don’t see many fat, old or weak walking or cycling around cos all the cunts are driving.
am going to start a campaign to make cars a shit load more dangerous (cardboard crumple zones, pointy steel dash and airbags minus the bag). would stop all those lethally fucking stupid driver arseholes who will put all their attention on anything but driving (mobiles, reading books/papers, doing makeup).
let motorists drive as fast they want, just make them accept the consequences of being stupid the same way other road users do.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 2:57 pm
Speaking as a motorist (in fact I’m typing this on a motorway, driving with the other hand), pedestrians are just scum. Get them off the streets now.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 2:57 pm
Speaking as a pedestrian (in fact I’m typing this on a motorway embankment, picking my nose with the other hand), motorists are just scum. Get them off our streets now.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 3:04 pm
The worst time to drive through the city, scratch that, along the freakin quays is Saturday night-Sunday morning. Endless droves of drunken fuckwits stumbling into the street, looking for a taxi. You have to drive like a 90-year old woman in case you accidentally hit one of them. It should be legal to run the fuckers over between the hours of 1am and 3am on a Sunday morning.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 3:15 pm
‘let motorists drive as fast they want, just make them accept the consequences of being stupid the same way other road users do.’
fair enough, but then let stupid, brain dead pedestrians except the consequences of stepping off the footpath.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 3:30 pm
Good, I’m glad the stupid speed limit has been cut. I have lights and reflectors AND I signal and I still nearly get squashed every single day.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 3:30 pm
And why do people need to drive in the city centre anyway? All cities should be pedestrianised. With bike lanes.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 4:16 pm
All those people wandering out into the street probably have ADHD…. nothing a good aubergine up the bum wouldn’t cure
August 3rd, 2007 @ 4:26 pm
all cyclists should fuck off to amsterdam and chill out. cunts
August 3rd, 2007 @ 7:19 pm
in spain they drive like schumachers on speed because the lights are green. you wouldn’t dare stick your pinky on the hot black tarmac. green go fast, red stop. thing is the lights are set back from the crossing giving AMPLE time to stop your seat ibiza or vespa. that’s the way it is in mature countries, even ones that were dictatorships for 40 years.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 7:24 pm
See, I think we need a dictatorship in Ireland and I think I’d quite like to be the dictator.
It’d be an awful lot of trouble to get it up and running though.
That kind of puts me off.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 7:36 pm
with the red faced lying cunt John O’Donoghue
we already are close enough to a dictatorship
August 3rd, 2007 @ 7:48 pm
pro/ams
“Or check out today’s bit. Even the comments are better. Give it a whirl…”
August 3rd, 2007 @ 8:16 pm
Twenty…we already have one. It’s called Bertieism. It’s where everything is done by arseholes in an arseway fashion. The govt never changes and they promote their Sunday Indo cronies. But I have faith that the Poles will form a Solidarity branch and shake us out of our stupor.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 8:32 pm
Think a Deathrace 2000(early Sly Stallone film about running over civilians in fast cars) scenario would work perfectly on the quays on weekend nights. Award bonus points for members of stags/hens and scangers.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 8:49 pm
:-) Hmm, lets wait until the first minister gets caught speeding. And me, I love cycling. I do use lights. Even when its foggy. No reflections though. Not other than the ones on my bike. And I’m one of those that you don’t want to make eye contact with because then I jump in front of you. I love it every day.
I don’t care how fast cars drive, or how careless the drivers are. As long they have their airbags replaced by a big sharp pointy spike. Makes it a lot more quiet in the city as well with all those car horns gone.
August 3rd, 2007 @ 9:37 pm
Yeah fucking cyclists the should be taxed a thousand euro a year, bleedin two wheeled wobblers put my heart crosswise. Saw em t’other night riding two abreast on the N52 fuckin hard to concentrate looking at their lycra clad backsides bobbing up an down. As for pedestrians …. **!!**
August 4th, 2007 @ 12:40 am
They can’t blame the cars. They’re only trying to get out of the way of the buses all of which are being driven by Keanu Reeves trained clones.
And how many times have you had to jump off a moving bus in Dublin for fear the fucker wasn’t going to stop?
August 4th, 2007 @ 1:55 am
I knew we’d pay when those greens got in. As a proffesional (ahem) driver, I can feel my road rage rising just thinking about driving at 18 mph.Cyclists will over take me, joggers that I verablly abuse will be able to catch me, it’s just not fucking on.I guess we’ll see swarms of pigs patrolling the streets now,raising cash.. I mean fighting crime.The bastards.
August 4th, 2007 @ 5:02 am
Each to their own for their own, but the biggest always wins the crash eh!
Think Bollocksland is bad then go try riding a bisikeli or pikipiki in Africa. What an adrenalin rush – no curbs, corrupt police, everybody drunkdriving after dark (including peds & cyclists). Life’s a challenge, nothing’s guaranteed (nothing good anyway) so suck it up peep’s.
August 4th, 2007 @ 10:26 am
dubtom – you’ve covered all my angles thanks and damn you all in one…. stupid f***ing greens
August 4th, 2007 @ 10:57 am
I’m a cyclist and I can tell you that the biggest cunts on the road are… cyclists. I think I’m the only one in Dublin that stops at red lights. Most of the ‘nearly’ spills I’ve had are because of some thick cunt all over the place on a bike…
August 4th, 2007 @ 12:21 pm
what’s the point in putting cycle lanes in the city center anyway ? fuckwits don’t use them in the burbs what the fuck makes anyone think they’ll use them in the city ?
August 4th, 2007 @ 4:04 pm
Shithead pedestrians don’t fucking look before walking/running onto roads outside of cities either! I was working in a small town for the last month and every single day people effortlessly and smoothly made the transition from footpath to road without slowing down, looking or even caring as traffic was hurtling towards them. People park on the roadside, open the car doors wide into traffic and step out into it and then BEND OVER AND START ROOTING AROUND IN THE BACKSEAT WITH THEIR GIANT STUPID ASSES STICKING OUT ONTO THE ROAD!! I could’ve taken off so many rural butts with my bumper if only I was that kind of person… Cars can KILL you you stupid stupid people, do you remember the Safe Cross Code?? Or has that been changed now to the Sue the Cross Driver (if you live) Code? Idiots.
August 4th, 2007 @ 8:59 pm
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August 4th, 2007 @ 9:52 pm
I blame the baby buggys-especially them 3 and 4 seaters that all the ones on IVF seem to have.
Its a fucken gridlock outside Raheny post office every fucken monday.
August 5th, 2007 @ 6:46 am
I’ll tell ya what nearly got me knocked doon in Dublin, bloody painted signs at the kirb that says “look left” or “look right” I was too busy thinking “why whats there?” and a big fuck off bus hurdles by as they are prone to do.
August 5th, 2007 @ 11:33 pm
Remind me not to ride my tricycle in Dublin! LOL just kidding man … love the blog!
August 6th, 2007 @ 6:57 pm
“Grandad said:
Don’t worry about it, Twenty.
Everyone will ignore the limit anyway.”
yeah like they did the smoking ban…that is apart from twenty, who’s still smokin in dublin bars…
August 6th, 2007 @ 9:06 pm
boards.ie ?????
who really takes that place seriously ? (apart from the 300 little 15-year-old hitlers they use as mods)