Residents of the Fermoy area need no explanation for this illustration. The "Fermoy Bypass" is an absolute crime against not only the town but also of the nation. All tolled roads in Ireland are crimes against the nation. We like to remind ourselves that we fought the opressors for "800 years" who beat us down with their penal laws and illegal ownership on OUR lands. Now we see cretin drivers happy (and I actually mean happy, fucking jolly like) to hop their coins into the toll baskets of toll booths for Irish roads owned by foreign companies. But now with the idea that "The Sheriff of Nottingham" wants to toll every road in Ireland, this is an argument for another day.
Instead lets focus on what the diagram specificifally demonstraights: that speed limits in Ireland are nothing but cinical tools to alter driving patterns, not for safety, but for profit. Be that profit from speeding fines or in this case, another deterrent for you not to use the "free" alternative to the tolled section of the M8. This example is old news, but it's still grinding nerves for locals and people who travel it every week.
We were promised that with the national change from MPH limits to KPH limits, all roads would be reviewed in turn and new appropriate KPH limits would be put in place: they lied! Old MPH speeds were rescaled to KPH and that was it. When I tried to argue this point before, and that the then current range of road safety ads were downright stupid and misleading, the groupies of the hipster wannabe film directors took pot shots at me. Well fuck them, because with the correlation between lengths of new motorway opened every year plotted against dropping road traffic deaths gives me a massive dick-throb. It proves what I, along with every other sensible person (including the AA) has been saying: that roads and road quality play a major factor in road deaths and not just speed.
But why do I bother to care. They even want to toll the Jack Lynch tunnel now. One is just beating one's head off the wall, or steering wheel, or one of the plethora of new promised speed cameras (that have been proven not to improve road safety in the UK, but fuck the UK right? They are the Hun after all, the Hun that imposed taxes and tolls on our land for 800 years! Yeah we'd never accept that sort of behavior again, now would we!). Speed cameras are fine, if you don't be a cunt and use them cynically to gather funds for your fucking fat bloated fuckface of an ineffective government, chockablocked full of dick-head cunt fuckers and shit eating pancreatic-cancer bastards!
There's never a Guard on the Fermoy road anyway so it's all a big joke. Ha!
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