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I wouldn't necessarily say that's true for cycling. You just need to choose your routes carefully - follow the minor roads, not the major ones you'd use in a ca

I wouldn't necessarily say that's true for cycling. You just need to choose your routes carefully - follow the minor roads, not the major ones you'd use in a car. I've had some lovely days cycling quiet country lanes in Ireland. Same applies in the UK, though there are some areas (principally the Home Counties) where it's difficult to find a road that isn't infested with speeding Audis.

vladvasiliu 4y ago
> though there are some areas (principally the Home Counties) where it's difficult to find a road that isn't infested with speeding Audis. This is the issue, though. Over here, in France, secondary roads (smaller "départementales", roads you wouldn't take when looking for the fastest route from A to B when neither is directly on that road) are basically rally circuits. Aside from a few usual suspects, the police don't really patrol them. I know many such roads where I've never seen a single cop after some two decades of riding in nice weather. And, at least around Paris, they're in good enough shape to allow speeding comfortably, but they're barely wider than a single Audi.
ajuc 4y ago
Maybe i just don't have the intuition on what road traffic to expect in Ireland. The speed limits are like +30-50 km/h compared to a similar road in Poland (for example we walked from Derry to Letterkenny and the road was 1 lane each way with no pavement after a few km. And yet the speed limit was like 100 km/h and constant traffic. And the smaller roads were all orthogonal to it. It was similar near Donegal, it was supposed to be Wild Atlantic Way but you wouldn't want to cycle on the main road, and the small roads weren't going along the coast but towards or away from it. Anyway, I don't want to complain too much, it was still great. The nature is superb. Just hard to get around without a car.

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I wouldn't necessarily say that's true for cycling. You just need to choose your routes carefully - follow the minor roads, not the major ones you'd use in a ca

by Doctor_Fegg 4y ago

vladvasiliu 4y ago
> though there are some areas (principally the Home Counties) where it's difficult to find a road that isn't infested with speeding Audis. This is the issue, though. Over here, in France, secondary roads (smaller "départementales", roads you wouldn't take when looking for the fastest route from A to B when neither is directly on that road) are basically rally circuits. Aside from a few usual suspects, the police don't really patrol them. I know many such roads where I've never seen a single cop after some two decades of riding in nice weather. And, at least around Paris, they're in good enough shape to allow speeding comfortably, but they're barely wider than a single Audi.
ajuc 4y ago
Maybe i just don't have the intuition on what road traffic to expect in Ireland. The speed limits are like +30-50 km/h compared to a similar road in Poland (for example we walked from Derry to Letterkenny and the road was 1 lane each way with no pavement after a few km. And yet the speed limit was like 100 km/h and constant traffic. And the smaller roads were all orthogonal to it. It was similar near Donegal, it was supposed to be Wild Atlantic Way but you wouldn't want to cycle on the main road, and the small roads weren't going along the coast but towards or away from it. Anyway, I don't want to complain too much, it was still great. The nature is superb. Just hard to get around without a car.