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Is it the end of road for the speed camera?

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  • #2
    roosterman71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,841 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    Its a money making scheme here so not a fear of them being scrapped on our little island


  • #3
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Too right.

    Shaking people down for 80E cos they were doing 65kmph in a 50kmph zone, several hundred metres before they arrive at a town (strategic roadsign placement!) and the garda hiding in some driveway where the town actually begins.

    I just look upon it for what it is - additional discretionary motor tax a.k.a. tough luck.


  • #4
    marmurr1916
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭marmurr1916


    roosterman71 wrote: »
    Its a money making scheme here so not a fear of them being scrapped on our little island

    Ireland is a camera-free paradise compared to the UK. Ever driven on a major British road? Regular fixed camera sites, lots of GATSO vans, heavy patrolling by traffic police, etc, etc. The level of enforcement in Ireland is a joke by comparison.


  • #5
    trad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    65 privately operated safety camera vans hitting the road nationwide in the coming months.

    Full marks to the gatso van parked in Oylgate (Wexford) yesterday eveining, excellent parking, blended in fully, only the roof vent open was an indication it was a gatso van.


  • #6
    marmurr1916
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭marmurr1916


    trad wrote: »
    65 privately operated safety camera vans hitting the road nationwide in the coming months.

    Combined with upcoming tolls on national routes, motoring is going to get a hell of a lot more expensive in Ireland soon.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2010/0723/1224275297847.html
    trad wrote: »
    Full marks to the gatso van parked in Oylgate (Wexford) yesterday eveining, excellent parking, blended in fully, only the roof vent open was an indication it was a gatso van.

    At least in the UK, they're obliged to give advance warning of fixed or mobile speed cameras.


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  • #7
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    These cameras/vans do little for road safety really.

    They are placed on straits. Speed is largely a source of accidents on winding roads, not straits.


  • #8
    limklad
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    Bird box reduces speed :eek:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8529895.stm


  • #9
    KevR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭KevR


    topper75 wrote: »
    These cameras/vans do little for road safety really.

    They are placed on straits. Speed is largely a source of accidents on winding roads, not straits.

    There was a study done recently that claims spending a bit of money on better road markings, signs (e.g. - for bad bends) and other stuff like a special an anti-skid surface at high risk locations does more to reduce accidents and deaths than speed cameras ever did.


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