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M2 speed cameras coming?

  • 26-07-2010 3:51pm
    #1
    Benster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭


    Hi, anyone else seen the small plinths that have appeared by the roadside on the M2 Ashbourne by-pass? There's nothing on them yet but a small metal box that looks like it would take a post for a speed camera. And there's loads of them, I counted 5-6 on the north-bound side yesterday and saw more on the south-bound today. Surely they can't all be for cameras?

    cheers,
    B.
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  • #2
    L1011
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    They are like VMS gantry foundations, the NRA had a tender out for these recently

    There will be very, very few fixed speed cameras in Ireland seeing as there will be a private mobile operator.

    edit: if they're very small, with a large concrete pad with one small metal mount on them, they're for emergency telephones.


  • #3
    foggy_lad
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    MYOB wrote: »
    They are like VMS gantry foundations, the NRA had a tender out for these recently

    There will be very, very few fixed speed cameras in Ireland seeing as there will be a private mobile operator.

    edit: if they're very small, with a large concrete pad with one small metal mount on them, they're for emergency telephones.
    just like the ones only now being installed on the new carlow by-pass.


  • #4
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,184 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    and also currently on the Arklow bypass. Think the NRA tendered for 200 new ones recently enough, that'd cover about 160km of motorway at the standard spacing.


  • #5
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Benster wrote: »
    Hi, anyone else seen the small plinths that have appeared by the roadside on the M2 Ashbourne by-pass? There's nothing on them yet but a small metal box that looks like it would take a post for a speed camera. And there's loads of them, I counted 5-6 on the north-bound side yesterday and saw more on the south-bound today. Surely they can't all be for cameras?

    cheers,
    B.


    Aren't they just those SOS phone things that are on most motorways?


  • #6
    Benster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭Benster


    Yep, question answered on the way home yesterday. They are SOS phones. Phew.
    Thanks lads.

    B.


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