The MINI Club of Ireland

With the introduction of the new 30km speed limit in cork, I am now taking bets on how many people in lyicra (aka Beardy with the Bike)Hwill have there heads stuck under buses by the weekend on the plus side our lovely cars will be less damaged in the unlikely event that we do help with the untimely death of beardy on the Bike.
Sinead's rant of the day is now finished.
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sinead

I wouldn't have known about this unless I had heard about it on the radio this morning. I don't think I have seen any signs about it. Is it for the whole of the city or just in the very middle of the city centre?

Note to self, google things before I post. http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1116/cork.html

The revised speed limit will apply to Patrick Street, Grand Parade, Oliver Plunkett Street, North Main Street and Cornmarket Street, as well as to a number of adjacent streets.

Cork City Council says several million euro has been spent up-grading the city's main street network and the lower speed limit was being introduced to derive maximum benefit from that investment.

Several million Euros was spent where and how? The only things that ever needed to be done is to review the timings for the traffic lights (possibly put in roundabouts instead) and fix the bloody pot holes.

Even better for a young man like myself driving through town on a saturday night! :-) Haha!
Im sure the boyracer community will have no complaints either.

The boyracer community, will like before the change, ignore the speed limits.

Oddly - the amount of times you can even get up to 30kph are few and far between. Any time I'm in town driving, I seem to struggle to hit 10kph. The council claimed this was for 'pedestrian safety'. I challenged them on it, and the fact that less than 4% of vehicle related incidents are as a result of speed as the single major contributary factor - and they couldn't answer.

You think that's bad try driving into Kilkenny, even with slow speed limit you tend to almost knock down the stoopid pedestrians that just walk out regardless or push their children out first in their buggies.. ! So much for safety and using zebra crossings, its not as if there's enough of them there for their safety. Think town speed limits are crazy, ban cars altogether if they are that worried .... !!