It's also called "nothing to do and all day to do it". The M7/Naas Road out of Dublin is a new 3 lane dual-carriageway from Newlands Cross to Naas. It is probably the busiest road in Ireland - and probably the safest! The speed limit on this road is 100 Km per hour. When you reach the Naas byepass and from there on it is a 2 lane dual-carriageway, but the speed limit increases to 120 Km per hour, because it is classed as a Motorway.
The first piece of the M7 to Naas is without a doubt the best and safest part but with the lowest speed limit. Almost EVERY driver goes over the legal limit of 100 Km because it is perfectly safe to do so and there are few accidents on this stretch of road.
Our beloved Garda Traffic Corps have other ideas though and constantly sit along this road with their speed cameras. Why? Because it's easy to catch people here. It has Nothing whatsoever to do with road-safety and everything to do with boosting the figures that Garda bosses can boast about. More importantly it is to do with MONEY. It is in fact a revenue collection exercise on behalf of the Minister of Finance and our corrupt Taoiseach. The Gardai are being used - the same way that the police and army are used by corrupt Dictators in Third World banana-republics.
p.s. *The above mentioned Finance Minister lives in County Offaly and uses this road. Does he stick to the speed-limit in his top of the range Ministerial Garda driven car?
** Look out for the speed camera at Exit 6 on the Naas Road. Not at the official ramp where the Garda car is supposed to park but sneakily just after you pass under the bridge where there is a road exit - where I would have thought it is a dangerous place to park!
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