Gardai Still Abusing Speed Traps to collect Revenue

Bee

The Gardai are still continuing to act as Revenue collectors rather than enforce road safety!

What a shower of wasters!

Over half of all speeding fines are issued on the safest roads
Ken Foxe Public Affairs Correspondent

Garda speed checks: high yield rather than high risk mark condren MORE than half of people caught speeding in Ireland are spotted in zones with either 50kph or 60kph speed limits.

These limits, which normally apply in cities, other urban areas and around dual carriageways and motorways, are found on some of the country's safest roads, at least when it comes to fatal accidents.

There are now concerns that garda speed checks are being concentrated on high-yield rather than high-risk zones.

The number of speeding fines issued over the past three years has shown a massive rise of more than 75%, figures obtained by the Sunday

Here is the link https://www.tribune.ie/news/article/2008/nov/23/over-half-of-all-speeding-fines-are-issued-on-the-/

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cyclopath2001

Bee wrote: »

The Gardai are still continuing to act as Revenue collectors rather than enforce road safety!

It's a voluntary 'tax'.

ART6

Bee wrote: »

The Gardai are still continuing to act as Revenue collectors rather than enforce road safety!

Why is that a surprise? Once the authorities realise that there is big money to be made it is just too tempting to introduce illogical speed limits in unexpected places and stick a camera there. I'm being cynical? Sure. Look at what happened in the UK, where it's possible to lose one's licence over a distance of only a few miles and speed limits go up and down like fiddler's elbows.

cyclopath2001

ART6 wrote: »

introduce illogical speed limits in unexpected places and stick a camera there.

Given the way Irish road-users abuse every law in the book, it's not difficult to understand how they'd not be able comprehend speed limits.

I would concede that some limits are only appropriate at certain times, for what's needed are variable limits advised by electronic signs.

Implying that all speed limits are wrong because some limits are sometimes inappropriate is an over-reaction or part of a concerted civil-disobedience campaign.

Drax

Last week there was a Gatso (new Transit) parked just before the 60km/h zone goes to 100km/h zone just past the Silver Springs Hotel as you leave Cork. It is one thing to have a speed check on the opposite side - coming into the city (which is a favourite spot for the Guards too) because it goes from 100 - 60 km/h and the dual carraigeway merges to one lane.

Easy pickings...

-Chris-

Bee wrote: »

Garda speed checks: high yield rather than high risk mark condren MORE than half of people caught speeding in Ireland are spotted in zones with either 50kph or 60kph speed limits.

These limits, which normally apply in cities, other urban areas and around dual carriageways and motorways, are found on some of the country's safest roads, at least when it comes to fatal accidents.

There are now concerns that garda speed checks are being concentrated on high-yield rather than high-risk zones.

This article sounds like they're trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.

If the Gardai ignore roads with 100kmph limits and higher, and concentrate instead on the roads with 50/60kmph limits, then that's a good thing.

Noone will deny that motorways are exceedingly safe, as are most dual-carriageways. Therefore, ignoring roads such as these and concentrating on urban and suburban roads, where there is the highest concentration of kids (& people in general), is commendable.

I think we need more detail before we jump to conclusions - are there particular roads that are being targeted? What's the average margin by which the limit is being broken? Are they busting people doing "65 in a 50", or "53 in a 50"?

It's more important to rally against the body that has imposed unnecessarily low speed limits on roads than against the Gardai, whose job it is to enforce those laws.

We all need to be a little more cynical when it comes to reading articles like this.

Anan1

+1. That article is sloppy to the point of making no sense.