Local authorities to implement 30km/h speed limits in urban areas ‘where appropriate’ from 2027
www.thejournal.ie
Speed limits on roads in built-up and urban areas can only be changed where a majority of the elected members in a local authority vote to do so.
  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Your headline isn’t what the article says, it says local authorities will do that “where appropriate”, i.e. not by default.

  • lengau@midwest.socialEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Meanwhile where I live the state makes it illegal for the city to set a speed limit below 25 mph (40 km/h). 😭

  • Delta_V@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    Makes sense in context. Some of their two lane roads are narrower than a single lane in other places. Dealing with oncoming traffic is a game of chicken where someone will be going off road.

  • eightpix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I was in a Canadian school zone today and thought that the posted speed, 40 km/h, should simply be referred to as “fast.” It’s 1.6× the speed of a four-munute mile and 10× walking speed. It’s fast.

    Stroads would be fast-and-a-half.

    Intercity highways, ie. “back roads,” would be double-fast.

    Expressways, 2.5 fast. Triple-fast and beyond is certainly too fast.

    The point is: anything that is fast is doable on a bike. Faster than that should be on rails or have a professional, full-time operator — not anyone who can pass an eye exam, and hold a No.2 pencil or click a mouse 40 times.

    Fast is fast enough. If you need to go fast, go alone. If you need to go far, or faster than fast, go together.