The article literally states that Ireland’s department of transport lowered the default rural road limits for the country in February, that’s exactly the sort of thing I had in mind.
You’re responding to a comment using Swiss speed limits as an example. Here in Switzerland changes in the speed in an urban area do not cause changes in rural areas.
And you’re commenting in a thread about Ireland, so I used a more relevant example. Nonetheless, I expect even Switzerland has things like country wide default speed limits and has its rural road speed limits set by a group in cities or at least the regional centres rather than each village getting to freely choose its own for the roads around it.
The article literally states that Ireland’s department of transport lowered the default rural road limits for the country in February, that’s exactly the sort of thing I had in mind.
No. The article states that URBAN is speed limit is set at 30km/h. RURAL road is already limited to 60km/h.
By rural they are talking about roads that are not within limits of cities. Note that town/city limits are much more defined in Europe. Usually the last house at the edge of town defines the end of the urban area and the beginning of the rural area.
That is what I said, yes. The point was that rural people in the same country as this urban change have already had their roads affected by people who don’t live near and use said roads.
Edit: The relevant quote from the linked article:
In February, the default speed limits on rural local roads decreased from 80km/h to 60km/h.
The article literally states that Ireland’s department of transport lowered the default rural road limits for the country in February, that’s exactly the sort of thing I had in mind.
You’re responding to a comment using Swiss speed limits as an example. Here in Switzerland changes in the speed in an urban area do not cause changes in rural areas.
And you’re commenting in a thread about Ireland, so I used a more relevant example. Nonetheless, I expect even Switzerland has things like country wide default speed limits and has its rural road speed limits set by a group in cities or at least the regional centres rather than each village getting to freely choose its own for the roads around it.
No. The article states that URBAN is speed limit is set at 30km/h. RURAL road is already limited to 60km/h.
By rural they are talking about roads that are not within limits of cities. Note that town/city limits are much more defined in Europe. Usually the last house at the edge of town defines the end of the urban area and the beginning of the rural area.
That is what I said, yes. The point was that rural people in the same country as this urban change have already had their roads affected by people who don’t live near and use said roads.
Edit: The relevant quote from the linked article:
How are they not affected? No one lives on rural roads. Everyone lives on urban roads. Rural roads are for driving between urban areas.
I don’t know about Ireland, but in a lot of countries a lot of people live along rural roads.
And a lot of people walk or bike along rural roads, they also deserve to live safely.