Ireland’s nonsensical ‘system’ of road speed limits is riddled with absurdities

Your correspondent Bob Quinn (Letters, January 1) has highlighted the nonsensical “system” of speed limit signage on Ireland’s roads. 

This, sadly, is just one example of the incompetence which has come to afflict policy-making and administration in this country.

We have a national road speed limit system which is riddled with absurdities. There are numerous instances of stretches of unimproved national roads with 100km speed limits which are, in my view, criminally irresponsible. The same applies to the even more frequent instances of narrow, twisting, rural roads with 80km speed limits.