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Speed cameras on N3. working!!!

  • 23-07-2009 12:58pm
    #1
    joseph brand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,537 ✭✭✭


    Hey,
    Just today got letter in post from the Garda Siochana. 80 Euro??
    Caught me at Dunboyne. These cameras haven't worked in years, I'm quite certain, but now, because there's a recession, they do. Nice little earner.

    One of the cameras was set on fire before, but they have kept the burnt-out look. There are no signs for these cameras either???

    I know I was in the wrong, but I thought they had to have signs nowadays?


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


    joseph brand wrote: »
    Hey,
    Just today got letter in post from the Garda Siochana. 80 Euro??
    Caught me at Dunboyne. These cameras haven't worked in years, I'm quite certain, but now, because there's a recession, they do. Nice little earner.

    One of the cameras was set on fire before, but they have kept the burnt-out look. There are no signs for these cameras either???

    I know I was in the wrong, but I thought they had to have signs nowadays?

    Which one was it?
    http://www.irishspeedtraps.com/index.aspx?filter=1


  • #3
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    joseph brand wrote: »
    I know I was in the wrong, but I thought they had to have signs nowadays?
    They have speed limit signs.;)


  • #4
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    They always worked , its just that out of all the boxes they have around the country they only have 3 cameras ( and I think one some of them got burned in a fire accident which they move around the place. :D They must have put a camera into that one again.


  • #5
    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    IrishSpeedTraps wrote: »
    Which one was it?
    http://www.irishspeedtraps.com/index.aspx?filter=1

    Just FYI, I'm pretty sure the N4 one at Lucan is gone now, or else there's maybe 20 people who'll be pissed off after yesterday's speeding when they get an FPN. Even the lines on the road are gone now thanks to the new road layout and that.


  • #6
    I.S.T.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭I.S.T.


    TouchingVirus wrote: »
    Just FYI, I'm pretty sure the N4 one at Lucan is gone now, or else there's maybe 20 people who'll be pissed off after yesterday's speeding when they get an FPN. Even the lines on the road are gone now thanks to the new road layout and that.

    I'll check that one out, thanks for the heads up.


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  • #7
    Heroditas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,620 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    The ones on the N4 by the Spa Hotel are definitely gone. The boxes were taken away last year and were never put back.
    I reckon they kept the old lines there to make people slow down. ;)


  • #8
    eringobragh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,668 ✭✭✭eringobragh


    The N4 camera was switched off as well at least a month before they removed it. Great little earner that camera as it was dubbed 'The Culchie Trap', nearly every second person I worked with in Galway had been nabbed by that camera


  • #9
    Martron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭Martron


    old lines are tarred over with neew road


  • #10
    Cionád
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭Cionád


    joseph brand wrote: »
    Hey,
    Just today got letter in post from the Garda Siochana. 80 Euro??
    Caught me at Dunboyne.

    What speed were you doing? Isn't that camera at the section where it goes down to 60km/h?


  • #11
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    Cionád wrote: »
    What speed were you doing? Isn't that camera at the section where it goes down to 60km/h?

    Now that really annoys me. Its 60 after the camera so the camera is set for over 80 ( and probably more like 100) . Why do people slam on the brakes coming up to it. The sign is after it not before. And anyway a road works speed sign means nothing. You have to change a by law to set a speed limit. ;)


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  • #12
    channelsurfer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 742 ✭✭✭channelsurfer


    Saab Ed wrote: »
    Now that really annoys me. Its 60 after the camera so the camera is set for over 80 ( and probably more like 100) . Why do people slam on the brakes coming up to it. The sign is after it not before. And anyway a road works speed sign means nothing. You have to change a by law to set a speed limit. ;)

    does this apply to the m50 roadworks sign all the way from blanch to the m1 junction???(has the law been changed for that part) I have never ever seen someone do 60kph on that stretch?


  • #13
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Trying to stick to the 60kph limit on the M50 seems like a great way to get run off the road.


  • #14
    mik_da_man
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,983 ✭✭✭mik_da_man


    Saab Ed wrote: »
    Now that really annoys me. Its 60 after the camera so the camera is set for over 80 ( and probably more like 100) . Why do people slam on the brakes coming up to it. The sign is after it not before. And anyway a road works speed sign means nothing. You have to change a by law to set a speed limit. ;)

    Im pretty sure it's set for 80, they moved the 80 limit to before the camera a while back and re done the lines


  • #15
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Stephen wrote: »
    Trying to stick to the 60kph limit on the M50 seems like a great way to get run off the road.

    I tried doing that a few weeks back. Mental. Heading northbound, you have to drive in the middle lane. The left lane is marked for N2 traffic, so I was going straight. It's dangerous doing that speed limit.


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