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NEW M1 Speed Trap

  • 08-05-2007 8:11am
    #1
    mik_da_man
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭


    Hi Guys,

    On the way to work this morning @ 8.20 ish I noticed a new speed trap (mobile) on the M1 northbound
    It is right on the apex of the silp road to the M50 and it was a blue scooby forester with a nice camera in the back and 2 Garda in the front.

    I travel this road every day and this is a new location and time for them to be there.

    on a side note how far away from the camera can they catch you from? :p

    Cheers

    Mik


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  • #2
    I.S.T.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭I.S.T.


    Stick the info in here if you don't mind! Thanks...

    http://www.irishspeedtraps.com/mapinput.aspx


  • #3
    mik_da_man
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭mik_da_man


    IrishSpeedTraps wrote:
    Stick the info in here if you don't mind! Thanks...

    http://www.irishspeedtraps.com/mapinput.aspx

    Hi,

    I tried but could not get it to work

    PM sent

    Mik


  • #4
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Were they sitting on the side of the slip road?


  • #5
    mik_da_man
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭mik_da_man


    Nope they were sitting on the M1 side just where the verge begins.
    See pic attached


  • #6
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Oh right - when you said 'apex' I took this as the apex of the bend of the slip road.


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  • #7
    mik_da_man
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭mik_da_man


    K - Sorry.

    But the pic describes it better than i could ever do.

    Picture tells 1,000 words and all that :D

    Mik


  • #8
    Turner
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭Turner


    That scooby is some beast alright. The Traffic Corps cars are assigned routes each morning in which they patrol. On their routes they look out for people dangerously overtaking, speeding, using hard shoulders, crossing hatched markings, provide ambulance and maternity escorts. And of course are there to deal with any fender benders nice and quickly.

    Just for your info thay do not have a speed camera in the back. They have a recording camera in the front which can tell the speed of a vehicle they are following alright.

    Any other speed camera they use would be hand held and requires them to be static.


  • #9
    mik_da_man
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭mik_da_man


    Chief--- wrote:
    Just for your info thay do not have a speed camera in the back. They have a recording camera in the front which can tell the speed of a vehicle they are following alright.

    Any other speed camera they use would be hand held and requires them to be static.

    I'm not too sure where you get your info from but there was defo a speed camera in the back. I'm 100% sure
    They were parked with it facing oncoming traffic. A big box with a nice lens in the middle. same as you see in the Vans
    Why else would they just be parked there with no handheld camera?

    Mik


  • #10
    fletch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,423 ✭✭✭fletch


    Sorry if I'm threadjacking but my mate just texted me to tell me that theres a new mounted speed camera on the Diswellstown Road, Castleknock. Does anybody know if this is true?


  • #11
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I would doubt that a camera would have been placed here - its more likely to have been some kind of covert van or car. It could alos have been the gardai out with a speed gun.


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  • #12
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    fletch wrote:
    Sorry if I'm threadjacking but my mate just texted me to tell me that theres a new mounted speed camera on the Diswellstown Road, Castleknock. Does anybody know if this is true?

    About time tbh.


  • #13
    FX Meister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭FX Meister


    IrishSpeedTraps wrote:
    Stick the info in here if you don't mind! Thanks...

    http://www.irishspeedtraps.com/mapinput.aspx
    What's the point? It doesn't get updated anyway.


  • #14
    I.S.T.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭I.S.T.


    FX Meister wrote:
    What's the point? It doesn't get updated anyway.

    What do you mean?


  • #15
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishSpeedTraps wrote:
    What do you mean?
    That site shows mobile speedchecks from weeks ago. It's never up to date. Plus anybody can post a speedcheck and I know there have been several added which didn't exist at all: just for the craic.


  • #16
    mik_da_man
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭mik_da_man


    Amalia Panicky Sauna wrote:
    That site shows mobile speedchecks from weeks ago. It's never up to date.

    In fairness and in my experience most mobile speed checks are not once off.
    Especially the GATSO Vans. they do a rotation around several locations and can regularly been seen at the same spots.

    Mik


  • #17
    I.S.T.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭I.S.T.


    Amalia Panicky Sauna wrote:
    That site shows mobile speedchecks from weeks ago.

    That's true, but the cops tend to stick to the same spots so it gives you a good idea of where to expect them. And once the static cameras become widespread this year it will be a lot more useful.
    Amalia Panicky Sauna wrote:
    It's never up to date. Plus anybody can post a speedcheck and I know there have been several added which didn't exist at all: just for the craic.
    I hope you are not responsible!! ;-) We do get some messers adding bogus speed traps but we try to remove as many as possible. The majority of them are legit locations.


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