A 1970s housing estate near my mansion (cough) has recently had speed ramps installed. The road in question is owned by the local authority, Cork County Council, and residents complained that so-called “boy racers” who typically drive Toyota Glanzas and other imported Japanese marques were driving through the 50kmph limit residential area at estimated speeds of 65kmph.
Now, if you are following my train of thought the goal of the ramps was to slow all traffic to 50kmph, as it should have been had people been following the signs. However, the ramps are so sharp it is necessary to slow to hearse procession speed if you want to keep your brain in your skull. In other words the residents got what they wanted a new speed limit of 30kmph.
It seems many residents want a speed limit of 30kmph. Thus far only those near a school have been able to persuade the council of the necessity.
Are there no guidebooks published by the Department of Local Government on speed ramp designs?That department enjoys collecting road tax from me so they must have something to do with roads. Perhaps there is a PDF buried somewhere on their CMS website
Published April 13th, 2007
in cork county council and uncategorized.
Cork City Council have a domain problem
One would guess their url to be:
corkcountycouncil.ie
or even
corkcountycouncil.com
However in reality
corkcountycouncil.ie is not even registered
and
corkcountycouncil.com is registered by a pay-per-click monetiser
They previously had corkcountycouncil.com going to a blank page, but let is drop.
Their working domain is corkcoco.ie
(wow did someone think there was an eight character limit on domain names?)
I would email the council but the last time I did that in College asking about flooding details for a project I got no reply so I won’t bother (unanswered emails are not forgiven easily) Continue reading ‘corkcountycouncil.ie’
Cork County Council has begun delivery of new uniform brown coloured bins (through its fulfilment partner Waste Management Service GB Ltd?).
Heretofore those wishing to recycle waste had to bring it to a “bring site”. This involved compacting waste and putting it through letterbox slots into a skip, often in the rain. However no charge was levied on the presenter.
It is imagined by the author that the new kerbside collections will be charged for, using the only mesureable variable of weight in kilograms.
Thus while kerbside recycling is to be welcomed it will cost the presenter more in the long term. It is to be hoped that this will encourage actual minimisation of packaging in the first instance.
Continue reading ‘Kerbside Recycling is a mixed blessing’
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