Sir, - I read with interest the recent Diary by Kevin Myers regarding foreign visitors and our road signs, or lack of them. If you think they are befuddled, then I must tell you my tale.
A friend recently got a speeding ticket, by post, for exceeding the speed limit on the dual carriageway between Heuston Station and Leixlip. As I had always thought the speed limit on this dual carriageway was 60 m.p.h. I was quite amazed that the ticket was for doing 60 m.p.h. in a 40 m.p.h.
zone.
The next day I drove from Heuston Station and discovered the following. The limits are: 30 m.p.h. for 1 mile, then 40 m.p.h. for half-a-mile, then 50 m.p.h. for two miles, then 40 m.p.h. for five miles, then 60 m.p.h. for one mile and then 70 m.p.h. thereafter.
Confused? Join the club!
To cap it all, when I did observe the 40 m.p.h. limit, a doubledecker bus blew me out of it for driving too slowly! - Yours, etc., Joe Curran,
Castletown,
Leixlip,
Co Kildare.