Traffic Problems In Dublin City, Ireland 1962
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2022
- In 1961 over 11,000 motorists were prosecuted for minor traffic infringements. In addition, 64,000 motorists were cautioned on the roadside. These figures relate only to those drivers caught in the city of Dublin.
The Rules of the Road are printed by the Department of Local Government but the number of offences raises the question
As to whether most motorists understand what they can do and what they are prohibited from doing.
At the nerve centre of Dublin traffic control at the Garda depot in the Phoenix Park, reporter John Ross meets the chief driving instructor Sergeant Eamon O’Boyle. From the Garda training centre they take to the streets of Dublin to observe some of the mistakes that drivers make when they get behind the wheel of a car.
They witness drivers breaking red lights, driving through pedestrian crossings, failing to indicate correctly, driving too close to the car in front, ignoring white lines, switching lanes erratically, double parking, and opening car doors on to oncoming traffic. These are just some of the mistakes that motorists make, mistakes that could cause accidents and injury.
All of this poses a very real problem indeed.
Superintendent J A McDermott, head of traffic in Dublin, says that the problem relates to the growing number of cars on the roads of Dublin. During the last three years there has been an increase of 19,000 cars registered in the city. Superintendent McDermott believes that constructive measures are necessary to resolve the problem through providing adequate off-street parking in the form of underground or multi-storey car parks.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 9 March 1962. The reporter is John Ross.
Thanks for posting. This film brought back so many memories of my early years. I was born in 1951. The first 9 years I lived on the north side of Dublin. My family moved to the UK in 1960. They were simpler times and the way in which this typical information film of that era reflects just how much times have changed. My father worked in Mountjoy Prison we lived in a Prison Avenue, if memory serves me correctly, only one-person had car. My elder brother who returned to Dublin in the early 60’s and witnessed first-hand the massive changes that took place over the following 50 years. I am sure he did not have to pass a test to get a driving license. He used to joke, “Most of the pedestrian traffic injuries were caused by cars overtaking on the pavement”. On the occasional visits back to Dublin, I have noticed there is a large cultural difference, in the way in which the Irish and English relate to their cars. English drivers tend to pamper their cars by regularly cleaning them. They also avoid as much as possible minor bumps and scrapes in the way the park. Irish drivers, based on my last visit 15 years ago are less inclined to be careful and attentive to their cars.
That is my grandfather John Ross.Died in January 1987.
It was that 5th pint that impaired their driving!
60 years later it's still a mess..
Those two drivers driving similar make big cars and coincidently very similar registration numbers IZC 947 and IZC 954 appear to be a menace on the roads back in 1962. Wonder if they were ever caught?
I watched a recent documentary about a week ago regarding traffic in Bangladesh and this is very tame!
60 years later and drivers still don't know how to use their indicators, and some think they're optional extras.
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I'm guessing, a pint of Guinness tasted much nicer in 1962, than it does today.
Sargent Amon looked very nervous to be on the telly 😂😂
Bring back the horse and cart sure the roads were only built for them anyways
Get ta feck Eamonn I didn't see any crossing there, driver was well within his rights!
My Dad just paid a sum of money at the post office for his driving licence c. 1958. One of his brothers, a farm contractor, taught him to drive to an accompaniment of a few curse words. His teacher was killed as he always stopped his Austin 7 before corner which he'd walk around just in case. Just once, and fatally, he encountered traffic on his short walk to check the corner. The Garda at the end was quite pragmatic. Now an array of quangos and local authorities for city push policy in different directions, meaning far too little is done.
The thumbnail photo shows it all. They drive like my dad did. Family travel was always fun.
To be fair back then there was no test, no driving lessons. In the north you just had to know a friendly police man, whom you drove around for 15 mins and he then authorised you for a license. Look how empty the roads were. Dublin today is bloody nightmare to drive in.
And by 2016 there were over half a million private cars registered in Dublin!
Christ no different to the driving today just better cars 😂
The truck at
'Where there's life, there's hope'
First clip looks like where nephin rd meets Navan rd 🤷♂️