Gatso van?

dcukhunter

Does anyone know if the white van 07 D (I think), parked up on Bothar na Dtreabh (between Tuam and Headford roads), a Gatso van or just part of the roadworks going on. If its part of the works its parked a good distance away from them. If anyone is driving around there be careful just in case.

ronnie3585

That it a favourite spot of the Gatso van, it's extremely hard not to speed on that road, I try to avoid it if at all possible. I have seen it quite a bit beside the school in Briarhill too.

dcukhunter

Ya I nearly ran in the back of the car in front of me when they hit the brakes hard when they saw it.

galwayrush

I've never seen it on a poor quality/ dangerous section of road.
Guess it makes a healthy profit.:rolleyes:

Mrs OBumble

Gatso?

Garda Speeding Operations? ???

While we're at it, how do I pronounce the "Dtreabh" part of Bothar na Dtreabh? (We could have a whole separate thread about the safe implications of having street and estate names that 10% of the population cannot pronounce ... I dread having to ever ring 112 one day.)

JohnCleary

JustMary wrote: »

I dread having to ever ring 112 one day.)

Um, they'd just ask you to spell it out if you couldn't say it surely?

JIZZLORD

JustMary wrote: »

Gatso?

Garda Speeding Operations? ???

While we're at it, how do I pronounce the "Dtreabh" part of Bothar na Dtreabh? (We could have a whole separate thread about the safe implications of having street and estate names that 10% of the population cannot pronounce ... I dread having to ever ring 112 one day.)

dre-ve
dre as in Dr. Dre

Das Kitty

JustMary wrote: »

Gatso?

Garda Speeding Operations? ???

While we're at it, how do I pronounce the "Dtreabh" part of Bothar na Dtreabh? (We could have a whole separate thread about the safe implications of having street and estate names that 10% of the population cannot pronounce ... I dread having to ever ring 112 one day.)

Drav

southie

JustMary wrote: »

Gatso?


While we're at it, how do I pronounce the "Dtreabh" part of Bothar na Dtreabh? (We could have a whole separate thread about the safe implications of having street and estate names that 10% of the population cannot pronounce

so your saying they should change something that 90% (your own calculations) of us understand, cause 10% of you could not be bothered to take an irish language class?

Das Kitty

No need to take a class, just ask someone.

Anyway, it's not like no one will understand you if you said it the way you think it should be said in your own head. I'm sure the Guards have heard every pronunciation at this stage.

To be honest I don't (and I'm sure a lot of people don't) know half the names of the roads in Galway so if it were be ringing them I'd probably have said the long bendy road between the Tuam road and the Headford road

ethernet

JustMary wrote: »

Gatso?

Garda Speeding Operations? ???

While we're at it, how do I pronounce the "Dtreabh" part of Bothar na Dtreabh? (We could have a whole separate thread about the safe implications of having street and estate names that 10% of the population cannot pronounce ... I dread having to ever ring 112 one day.)

Never heard of it before! Presumably it's Bóthar na dTreabh -- with the urú, the "T" becomes silent --> bóthar na "drav", as pointed out by others.

Mrs OBumble

southie wrote: »

so your saying they should change something that 90% (your own calculations) of us understand, cause 10% of you could not be bothered to take an irish language class?

Now where did you get the idea that I'm saying they should change it.

IMHO what they should do is put translations or pronunciation guides on the signs.

I've spent both time and money taking a class, and frankly given the appalling standard of teaching it was a total waste. I learned "agus", "arus" and "XXX is anim dom".


PS ... suggest you learn how quotes work.

kayos

JustMary wrote: »

IMHO what they should do is put translations or pronunciation guides on the signs.

Well they used to have them but if the place/area is in the Irish area's they must only be named by the Irish name.

Saw the van there last night alright was a tad about the stupid limit so hopefully they where busy snapping the jeep pulling a trailor at about 60MPH instead of me :P

JohnCleary

Mary - would you fcuk off. If you don't understand the Irish Language, that's your own problem. If you have a problem with the way you were taught in your Irish Class, approach the organisation/teacher. Maybe you're just sh1te at learning things

If you have such a problem with placenames being in Irish, move to the UK

Your linguistic skills are none of my business, and frankly I don't give a flying fcuk, but keep it out of this thread



(Awaits response - this is gonna be epic :pac:)

KevR

A post by me in another thread:

KevR wrote: »

There was an unmarked gatso van (the new mobile speed camera vans they have) hidden behind a bush on the road between the Tuam Rd RAB and the Menlo Park RAB earlier tonight. I was driving slow (almost sure I wasn't over the limit), as was the car in front of me and the car behind me. There were 2 cars in the right hand lane going slightly faster (they might have been a bit over the limit but they weren't speeding/a danger to themselves or others).

Anyway the camera in the gatso van flashed someone. Could have been anyone really (there were 5 of us passing it at the same time) - hope to god it wasn't me.

When the camera flashed everyone jammed on their brakes (a bit late in the day after it had already flashed :rolleyes:) and the flash almost caused a pile up. :mad:

I'll be raging if I get a ticket for that - I couldn't possibly go any slower on that road without it being dangerously slow..

PS - I think I might take a different route home from work anymore. They have been on the N6 in the City an aweful lot lately in the evenings. Only a matter of time until they do me for being slightly over the limit on one of those 4 lane roads which have the stupidly low speed limits (if they haven't already that is).

JIZZLORD

it was pronounced dreve to me,but if ye galway types say so it'll be drav from now on

Das Kitty

Treabh is pronounced trav, so the d on front cancels out the T sound.

04KY

JohnCleary wrote: »

Mary - would you fcuk off. If you don't understand the Irish Language, that's your own problem. If you have a problem with the way you were taught in your Irish Class, approach the organisation/teacher. Maybe you're just sh1te at learning things

If you have such a problem with placenames being in Irish, move to the UK

Your linguistic skills are none of my business, and frankly I don't give a flying fcuk, but keep it out of this thread



(Awaits response - this is gonna be epic :pac:)

I never thought I'd say it, but I agree with Cleary.

KevR

I pronounce it 'N6' :rolleyes:

ronnie3585

Feckin' Sasnach, commin' over ere trying to takeover our road signs!

Robbo

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Feckin' Sasnach, commin' over ere trying to takeover our road signs!

I do wish the Saxon foe would go about Anglicising the names of all these gerry-built ****box estates of negative equity.

dcukhunter

KevR wrote: »

A post by me in another thread:

I didn't think the vans had to flash, thought a lot of it is recorded so they can get you anyway. I could be wrong though, nothing new there

KevR

dcukhunter wrote: »

I didn't think the vans had to flash, thought a lot of it is recorded so they can get you anyway. I could be wrong though, nothing new there

Well it was at night when I passed and it did flash. Might not need to flash during the day..

dcukhunter

I might have got away so I was going a bit over but also behind another car as well, no flash for either of us though.

KevR

dcukhunter wrote: »

I might have got away so I was going a bit over but also behind another car as well, no flash for either of us though.

I hope you don't get fined and have points put on your licence.

I hope I don't either - hopefully it was one of the other cars in front/behind/beside me that the flash was for..

dcukhunter

Not much we can do now anyway but wait and see does anything come through the door. Hopefully not would be annoying to get first points on licence. Its a daft limit to have there anyway very hard to stay within it, had to go back that way again and constantly had to keep look at speedo to try and keep at the limit.

KevR

dcukhunter wrote: »

Not much we can do now anyway but wait and see does anything come through the door. Hopefully not would be annoying to get first points on licence. Its a daft limit to have there anyway very hard to stay within it, had to go back that way again and constantly had to keep look at speedo to try and keep at the limit.

I find it distracting trying to keep to the limit there. Keep having to constantly sheck the speedo.

Mrs OBumble

Robbo wrote: »

I do wish the Saxon foe would go about Anglicising the names of all these gerry-built ****box estates of negative equity.

I understand the City Council's policy is that all new place names in Galway will be Irish, but will use words that are simple enough for non-Irish speakers to say.

(I just wish the Irish could agree on how to say them, and were a bit more gracious about telling the rest of us how to do so.)

Mrs OBumble

JohnCleary wrote: »

Mary - would you fcuk off. ....
If you have such a problem with placenames being in Irish, move to the UK
...
(Awaits response - this is gonna be epic :pac:)

Please, oh please, tell me what I said that made you think I have a problem with place names being in Irish?


And when I'm out for a walk one day, going along a road with a name that I cannot say, or even remember because the unfamiliar letter combinations don't stick in my head, I do hope that the guy who I come across having a heart attack doesn't mind the extra delay while I run down to the nearest street sign! (I was going to say that I do hope it's you, but that's a little nasty so I won't.)

JohnCleary

That wasn't the aggressive, typical JustMary response I was hoping for. Boo!

FWIW I have never had a problem remembering or saying out loud (or in my head) any of the Irish named estates/roads in Galway - Maybe you're just not meant to live in Galway Mary?

po0k

Maybe you should take a back seat John, eh?

gd1987

That van was just around the bend from the menlo park roundabout when I passed at 10 to 9 on monday morning. Just picking on the easy targets, people going to work and some late for work.

I was going about 40mph maybe more and (stupidly) on the phone, so I'm done twice really.

However I hope they're not doing people for going over 30, that would just be taking the absoloute piss. Especially since no cops obey speed limits (especially on bothar na dtreabh & the bridge) and half of them don't have they're driving courses done.

JohnCleary

po0k wrote: »

Maybe you should take a back seat John, eh?

So the Gatso Van can't get a pic of my face?

soundbyte

Ah, Bothar na dTreadhbh me hole. It's the Eastern Approach Road still in my book.

Bit like Quincentenary Bridge. If people can't be bothered to call it by its correct name (i.e. not Quincentennial), then just call it the New Bridge.

Poncey new-fangled names. Its a recession we're in

Mrs OBumble

JohnCleary wrote: »

So the Gatso Van can't get a pic of my face?

Yeah, we wouldn't want them breaking the camera lens now.





There ... does that response make you feel better?

KevR

soundbyte wrote: »

Ah, Bothar na dTreadhbh me hole. It's the Eastern Approach Road still in my book.

Bit like Quincentenary Bridge. If people can't be bothered to call it by its correct name (i.e. not Quincentennial), then just call it the New Bridge.

Poncey new-fangled names. Its a recession we're in

I think they should call that entire road from Westside to Oranmore the 'Northern Ring Road (N6)' because it circles across the top of the city. Number all the roundabouts and junctions to make it so much easier to follow for out of towners.

And I don't like the proposed bypass being called a bypass either, it should be called an outer (northern) ring road. A bypass seems less important than a ring road. Would be like calling the M50 or Cork South Ring Road bypasses when they're clearly ring roads.

Robbo

KevR wrote: »

And I don't like the proposed bypass being called a bypass either, it should be called an outer (northern) ring road. A bypass seems less important than a ring road. Would be like calling the M50 or Cork South Ring Road bypasses when they're clearly ring roads.

Agreed. "Bypass" implies that Spiddle or Rosaveel is more important than Galway.

They might be, if you're on the payroll of Cuiv, Eamonn O but to the civilised world, they're not.

KevR

Robbo wrote: »

Agreed. "Bypass" implies that Spiddle or Rosaveel is more important than Galway.

They might be, if you're on the payroll of Cuiv, Eamonn O but to the civilised world, they're not.

Exactly. You wouldn't say the Dublin Bypass or the Cork Bypass for the M50 or Cork SRR. The majority of people who use those roads do so to get into some part of Dublin or Cork or to get from one part of the city to the other. This will also be the case with Galway. Hardly anyone uses the M50 or CSRR to bypass Dublin or Cork. Most people using the 'M6 Galway Northern Ring Road' won't be bypassing Galway.

A bypass is what you would describe the Athlone or Loughrea bypasses as. Those roads go directly past the towns (rather than circling around it) and the majority of users don't use these roads to access the towns or to get from one side of the town to the other.