Tuesday, May 24, 2005
news bits
Not too much happening around still, things are nearly getting boring here in the city.. What happened the good old days when anyone that was being shot was being shot in Limerick and anything of any interest at all happened here, or even if it didnt someone somewhere found a Limerick connection somewhere! If you read last weeks Sunday World, you will have got a good rundown on some of the local gangland stuff, who did what, where and when etc....
Other than that its back to the local papers for some news. The students out in UL are going to get CCTV installed on Campus so that they might feel a bit safer. With a slight association with students its also of note to see that Bruce College will shut at the end of this school year. TD, Michael Noonan has called for an Investigation into diesel prices in the city ... And there is me just after getting rid of me diesel car and going back to petrol!! You just cant win these days!! And also just to piss anyone off who travels on the Limerick to Ennis road, Clare county council in their infinite wisdom have announced that there will be roadworks at Bunratty on the N18 dual carriageway where a A 1.3km stretch of the road will be closed for repairs and a contra-flow will be in operation from the beginning of June until the end of August. Clare County Council engineer Donal Hogan warned that this could lead to "major delays" for motorists but stressed that the roadworks were necessary to repair the surface. Just in time for the toursist season!!
One person who probably would drive through it all is a police officer in West Mercia, UK was let off the hook after being caught driving 159 MPH on public roads.He was found NOT GUILTY in court despite being caught "testing" an unmarked police car on public roads at speeds up to 159 MPH. An on-board video recorder captured Mark Milton, a 38 year old constable, zipping through a 30 MPH zone at 84mph and driving on a secondary road at 131 MPH. Milton claims he was testing the capabilities of his new, unmarked Vauxhall Vectra GSI police car. At least one senior police officer testified in Milton's defense saying that high speeds on public roads was acceptable. Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign suggests that this case is evidence that the obsession with speed camera enforcement is counter-productive. "If 159 mph can be safe enough not to endanger the public, then surely this is a clear official admission that driving a few miles per hour over the speed limit isn't necessarily dangerous either," Smith said. "We have to get back to the policies that gave us the safest roads in the world in the first place, long before speed cameras and the pointless obsession with numerical speed."
Other than that its back to the local papers for some news. The students out in UL are going to get CCTV installed on Campus so that they might feel a bit safer. With a slight association with students its also of note to see that Bruce College will shut at the end of this school year. TD, Michael Noonan has called for an Investigation into diesel prices in the city ... And there is me just after getting rid of me diesel car and going back to petrol!! You just cant win these days!! And also just to piss anyone off who travels on the Limerick to Ennis road, Clare county council in their infinite wisdom have announced that there will be roadworks at Bunratty on the N18 dual carriageway where a A 1.3km stretch of the road will be closed for repairs and a contra-flow will be in operation from the beginning of June until the end of August. Clare County Council engineer Donal Hogan warned that this could lead to "major delays" for motorists but stressed that the roadworks were necessary to repair the surface. Just in time for the toursist season!!
One person who probably would drive through it all is a police officer in West Mercia, UK was let off the hook after being caught driving 159 MPH on public roads.He was found NOT GUILTY in court despite being caught "testing" an unmarked police car on public roads at speeds up to 159 MPH. An on-board video recorder captured Mark Milton, a 38 year old constable, zipping through a 30 MPH zone at 84mph and driving on a secondary road at 131 MPH. Milton claims he was testing the capabilities of his new, unmarked Vauxhall Vectra GSI police car. At least one senior police officer testified in Milton's defense saying that high speeds on public roads was acceptable. Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign suggests that this case is evidence that the obsession with speed camera enforcement is counter-productive. "If 159 mph can be safe enough not to endanger the public, then surely this is a clear official admission that driving a few miles per hour over the speed limit isn't necessarily dangerous either," Smith said. "We have to get back to the policies that gave us the safest roads in the world in the first place, long before speed cameras and the pointless obsession with numerical speed."
# posted by grumpy : 4:38 p.m.
