The toll bridge?

Sarah**

Is there a speed camera just after the toll bridge heading towards the N7 direction???

Shiva

Yes.

Were you nabbed ?

prospect

Yes

Sarah**

Sh1t i think i was, i was late heading down to kildare lasnight and it was like a flash happend just as i approached passing the turn off heading down towards the N7! Ah ****e i guess il just have to wait and see now!!

$Leon$

Its there just south of the toll bridge just at the end of the bridge

Shiva

Sarah** wrote:

Sh1t i think i was, i was late heading down to kildare lasnight and it was like a flash happend just as i approached passing the turn off heading down towards the N7! Ah ****e i guess il just have to wait and see now!!

Hmmm.

Are you confusing the N7 with the N4 ?

The N4 is the first exit after the toll booth as you head South, and the speed camera is located just before that. The N7 is the exit for the Red Cow Roundabout, and there isn't one there.

At least I don't think there is :eek:

Moanin

Wonder if it's recording?They all don't.You might be lucky........

Sarah**

Sorry for the confusion! I was passing the first exit after the toll bridge heading south when i got a flash, maybe it was car lights heading up the exit but im pretty sure it was a camera.....Darn it!!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Moanin wrote:

Wonder if it's recording?They all don't.You might be lucky........

Hopefully it was working and she learns a lesson: not to be speeding.

Sarah**

Saoirse Magnificent Blob wrote:

Hopefully it was working and she learns a lesson: not to be speeding.

Eh cheers!

ZiabR

Sarah** wrote:

Is there a speed camera just after the toll bridge heading towards the N7 direction???

Yup afraid so

Sarah**

Sorry but i can quite confidently say that everyone breaks the speed limit at least once, some are just more lucky then others and dont get caught! So Srameen im sure you have broken it at least once so keep your judging to yourself thanks! I was just asking is there a camera there or not.

Stark

Saoirse Magnificent Blob wrote:

Hopefully it was working and she learns a lesson: not to be speeding.

She might have only be speeding in the most pedantic of sense. The speed limit on the motorway is 120kph but it's 50kph in the area around the toll bridge. If you pick up speed too quickly after leaving the toll bridge, you could get nabbed, which is quite unfair imo. It would be like putting a speed camera on a sliproad joining the motorway in order to catch everyone who builds up merge speed too quickly.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Sarah** wrote:

Eh cheers!

Ye're very welcome. Is the lesson learned?:p

Sarah**

No I think it is unfair when the limit is 120 on the motorway but in the run up to it its 50?! I mean come on, when your approaching the motorway there is merging traffic coming from your left so you gain speed entering the right lane to allow there entrance. So why is there a camera there?

Golferx

Sarah** wrote:

No I think it is unfair when the limit is 120 on the motorway but in the run up to it its 50?! I mean come on, when your approaching the motorway there is merging traffic coming from your left so you gain speed entering the right lane to allow there entrance. So why is there a camera there?

Don't mind that idiot. There's always some pompous git ready to laugh at others' misfortunes. To get caught by one of those things is unlucky, not dangerous.

prospect

Sound like you were caught allright. Har luck.

You can take some comfort that you were not driving at a dangerous speed. What you did was pass a revenue generator, so you can be glad that you contributed to our wonderful, pothole free, second-to-none roads..


Hey, wait a minute

Sarah**

Sh1t, but at leats i know for future reference there is one there!!

Stimpyone

The speed limit there is 60 and the speed camera lines are hidden in the yellow junction box just before the N4 slip road which I think is not covered by the camera ( the slip road that is ). I've been too chicken to test that theory though.

whippet

Stark wrote:

She might have only be speeding in the most pedantic of sense. The speed limit on the motorway is 120kph but it's 50kph in the area around the toll bridge. If you pick up speed too quickly after leaving the toll bridge, you could get nabbed, which is quite unfair imo. It would be like putting a speed camera on a sliproad joining the motorway in order to catch everyone who builds up merge speed too quickly.

Sorry .. she was flashed in a 60kph zone, which is a temp speed limit due to the on going road works on the motorway. The temp speed limit has been in place for months now, and the authorities even had the grace to stick a big electric sign up for the last few weeks warning that static cameras were operational from the 2nd April to enforce the 60kph limit.

the limit is obviously in place as the road surface is very uneaven, no shoulders on either side, bad road markings and the presence of work men and machinery.

I can't see how anyone could be annoyed at getting caught at that camera. I acknowledge the OP wasn't looking for sympathy just making sure.

Stark

The only effect those cameras will have on me is to push me onto the backroads around Lucan/Clonsilla.

whippet wrote:

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Hmm, I thought they had cameras pointed at the 50kph section near the toll booth now as well. I'm just going on second hand evidence as I haven't been on that section of the M50 in ages.

Sarah**

whippet wrote:

I can't see how anyone could be annoyed at getting caught at that camera. I acknowledge the OP wasn't looking for sympathy just making sure.

nope not looking for ympathy was merely asking was there a camera there! And yes i saw the 60 signs but didnt know there was a camera there. now i do and for future reference i know there is a camera there!

Rovi

Is this the one?-
http://www.irishspeedtraps.com

AntiVirus

From the picture above it looks like you can fly up the exit road and not get caught speeding? I don't see any white lines on the exit road.

Lucky me, thats the exit road I take but then again I never break the speed limit.

Golferx

There is a completely legitimate way to avoid any any penalties from such speed cameras.

I have it and I ain't telling!

prospect

Pleasseeeee stop referring to them as speed cameras,

They are called Revenue Collection Boxes.

OldmanMondeo

Golferx wrote:

There is a completely legitimate way to avoid any any penalties from such speed cameras.

I have it and I ain't telling!

I know I know,

Buy a Stealth car....or buy KITT and Turbo Boost the cameras..or go so fast that the camera can't get you....

Do I get a prize?

Kashkai

Thank Jebus for that pic showing the white lines on the motorway and not the slip road. I was sure I got flashed last Monday week when I was going up the Lucan slip road. And for the self righteous out there, I was doing about 65 - 70 kph which I thought was legit on this portion of the road (and as I usually avoid the M50 at all costs, I wasn't waare they had introduced the REVENUE COLLECTION BOX / GARDAI PROVING THEY ARE ENFORCING THE ROAD TRAFFIC ACTS. When I stopped at the lights at the top of the off ramp, the camera was flashing away like a paparazzi who just caught Bertie in bed with Enda Kenny.

Hopefully, the thing was empty and was just being used to scare people into slowing down.

ismynametoolong

This camera is most deffo a revenue Box ! I was sitting in traffic north bound the other night and watching that camera it was like a disco light it was flashing so many times .All the cars caught were simply travelling with the flow of traffic and certainly did not deserve to be trapped . This camera has nothing to do with road safety and all to do with revenue collection !!!

jimmycrackcorm

A Garda source tells me that that Gatso can take 800 photos and they expect to be changing the roll at least once a week initially...

ismynametoolong

And this wait until speed cameras are privatised !!!

gucci

along the same lines, how long does it take to get nailed by the summons after your caught? nearly sure i got caught 3weeks ago, passed a school bus who was in the hard shoulder for ages, still waited til there was nothing approaching other side of road. passed the bus as it was irritating me o be behind it as he would neither pull in or pull out. when i passed him low and behold a lady of the law was STANDING on the side of the road with a speed camera....grrrrrrrrrrr!!!the school bus driving in the hard shoulder for so far had perfectly sheilded her was defiently a set up!!! oh well!!! live and learn!!

lynchie

gucci wrote:

along the same lines, how long does it take to get nailed by the summons after your caught? nearly sure i got caught 3weeks ago, passed a school bus who was in the hard shoulder for ages, still waited til there was nothing approaching other side of road. passed the bus as it was irritating me o be behind it as he would neither pull in or pull out. when i passed him low and behold a lady of the law was STANDING on the side of the road with a speed camera....grrrrrrrrrrr!!!the school bus driving in the hard shoulder for so far had perfectly sheilded her was defiently a set up!!! oh well!!! live and learn!!

If it was a garda with a handheld unit, im nearly sure you have to be pulled over by them to be fined. Secondly, you dont get a summons, you get a fine. Not paying the fine results in a summons.

Stark

She was probably hit and killed by the bus anyway

It should be interesting to see what the next snapshot of numbers of drivers with penalty points looks like. Maybe I'll get a "doesn't drive on the M50" discount on my insurance next year

gucci

Stark wrote:

She was probably hit and killed by the bus anyway

perhaps....hopefully!!!
was a hand-held unit, not the hair dryer type though, does a speed camera HAVE to be mounted on a tri-pod or in a car?? i was figuring that about having to be pulled over but seen as she was standing on the road i dont think she would have much chance flagging me down waving her hat in my rear view mirroe.

Stark

Well I was driving down the Blanchardstown bypass towards the roundabout before and there were two gardaí standing on one of the bridges over the carriageway. One was holding a handheld unit that was flashing, the other had a radar gun and was jotting down notes in a notebook. So I assume they were just handing out fines/points in the post like a mobile van would do.

MAYPOP

ismynametoolong wrote:

This camera is most deffo a revenue Box ! I was sitting in traffic north bound the other night and watching that camera it was like a disco light it was flashing so many times .All the cars caught were simply travelling with the flow of traffic and certainly did not deserve to be trapped . This camera has nothing to do with road safety and all to do with revenue collection !!!

It has everything to do with the safety of the construction workers on the M50 upgrade. It isn't that hard to stick to 60 or under for a few miles :rolleyes:

Mitch Connor

i had a good laugh this morning.

Was driving at about 58 in the 60 zone, in the left lane.the person behind me was right up the arse of my car. there was a gap to the right, so the accelerated into it to overtake me - right at the road markings......FLASH! what made it great was the fact the cars ahead in the right hand lane were doing 60 themselves, so they weren' really gaining anything!

Stark

Purrrr

Yeah it's nice to see gob****es get nabbed.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Tauren wrote:

i had a good laugh this morning.

Was driving at about 58 in the 60 zone, in the left lane.the person behind me was right up the arse of my car. there was a gap to the right, so the accelerated into it to overtake me - right at the road markings......FLASH! what made it great was the fact the cars ahead in the right hand lane were doing 60 themselves, so they weren' really gaining anything!

Love it!!!:D

HelterSkelter

Golferx wrote:

There is a completely legitimate way to avoid any any penalties from such speed cameras.

I have it and I ain't telling!

Yeah, we know already Genius, stay under the limit!

gucci

Stark wrote:

Well I was driving down the Blanchardstown bypass towards the roundabout before and there were two gardaí standing on one of the bridges over the carriageway. One was holding a handheld unit that was flashing, the other had a radar gun and was jotting down notes in a notebook. So I assume they were just handing out fines/points in the post like a mobile van would do.

to be honest i couldnt say if the implement she was holding flashed or not it was so late when i seen her,im praying in a way that because i was passing out the bus that is somehow sheilded me. should have done the bus for doing that half arsed driving "almost" in the hard shoulder....at 55mph, come on dude drive in the regular lane, not like my old school bus driver,he wouldnt mind holding up 20miles of traffic