Category Archives: Motorway

More Mobile Activity and Stupidity

September 21, 2007 – 10:31 am

On Wednesday last, I was coming from Little Island in Cork and heading home to Cobh at about 7.30pm. As you leave Little Island you take a left at the roundabout and as you cross the dual-carriageway bridge you take a right at the “FILTER” lights (caps on purpose) to head down the slip road [...]

By choicer | Also posted in Bad Driving, Roundabouts | Comments (13)

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go back On The Dual Carriageway

September 17, 2007 – 4:07 pm

So I had a nice early night on saturday night because I had to be up at four in the morning to bring the Mother in law to Shannon Airport. I dutifully ignored the texts to go to the pub for the rugby, had some icecream and lemonade to compensate myself and watched the match [...]

By Dr Orgasm | Also posted in Bad Driving, Overtaking, Roundabouts | Comments (3)

24 Hours of Pants

September 14, 2007 – 11:31 am

On Wednesday afternoon I drove to Dublin and came back yesterday afternoon. In that 24 hour period here are some absolute pants issues I saw: 1) On the Motorway between Portlaoise and Dublin I saw a lorry overtaking another. The overtaking driver was on his mobile. 2) Approaching the Crumlin roundabout from the long-mile road, [...]

By choicer | Also posted in Bad Driving, Overtaking, Roundabouts | Comments (0)

Lane discipline

September 11, 2007 – 9:39 am

At a cost of €230 million, the N7 between Rathcoole and Naas was upgraded from 4 to 6 lanes. The works were completed in August 2006, yet one year later I am wondering was the expenditure wasted as so many drivers refuse to use the extra lane. The picture below was taken from a pedestrian [...]

By primalsneeze | Also posted in Bad Driving, Overtaking | Comments (25)

Hard Shoulder Usage on Motorways

September 7, 2007 – 12:05 pm

Hi, Something that I just cannot understand is the amount of drivers who feel a neccesity to stop on motorway hard shoulders. Hard shoulders are meant for emergancy use ONLY. Being on the hard should with cars zipping past at 120kph causes more accidents than anything else on motorways and it seems to me that [...]

By Shakka | Comments (6)