Gatso Vans on the Road again

bbability

Just spotted two usual gatso speed traps over the last two days but it looks like they are using the newer Garda Vans.

Just a note to take heed of your speed in the usual spots.

This morning the van was parked on the Ballymun Road just past the entrance to DCU. 50km is the limit but its an easy place to be driving over the limit if the traffic is light.

Atlantic Dawn

Seeing as they are not marked and to make things a little fairer here's the reg numbers of 8 of them, all white transit vans...

<Modnote: reg numbers snipped as per the Charter>

2qk4u

I saw one on the Navan road near Cabra Garda station with a big Garda sign on the side, looked like a magnetic sign.

frank gooding

One on the side of the belgard road. last week too.

White transit with a small gardai symbol on the side.

mfceiling

Going to laois yesterday and on the naas carriageway there were 2 speed guns within 2 -3 miles of each other.
One guy half hidden with the gun out an unmarked mondeo window.
One guy in a fiat people carrier (marked) with the gun out the window.
Fish, shooting, barrel............:rolleyes:

frank gooding

I think the honour for fish goes to the N4 80kph all the way to leilip then 120 straight after.

Midnight_EG

I see them nearly every day

Absurdum

there was an interesting article in the Sunday Tribune recently about the distribution of penalty points by county...Donegal and Kerry have the lowest % of the population with points. Counties in Leinster - which have the most km's of motorways - had the highest :rolleyes:

Safety my arse.

Turner

Outside DCU is a good location for a van.........for once!!

Wibbs

Absurdum wrote: »

there was an interesting article in the Sunday Tribune recently about the distribution of penalty points by county...Donegal and Kerry have the lowest % of the population with points. Counties in Leinster - which have the most km's of motorways - had the highest :rolleyes:

Safety my arse.

QFT.

Damien360

Two new locations for ye.

Westbound on M4 just before exit ramp for Tullamore exit. They sit on the hard shoulder right before the exit ramp with the hazard lights on. Seen it twice there. Looks like someone working on the road from a distance (litter pickers etc).

Night time after the crappy Guns and Roses concert on N7 southbound (3 lanes 100kph). At about 12.30am parked up on hard shoulder right before Johnstown haulage. No hazards on this time but not a very safe spot. They were using the older square window vans at the time.

wersal gummage

Chief--- wrote: »

Outside DCU is a good location for a van.........for once!!

maybe, maybe not.

its PAST dcu - a good bit past the entrance. there are traffic lights at DCU and a bus stop there so its a fair cop if you're speeding through there. however, the usual spot they use is a good bit further down the road - three lanes (albeit one is a bus lane) on a very wide road going downhill, i regularly hit 50kms down that way on my bicycle.

Victor

Guess whats coming next month?

Bodo

Hey, is it only vans guys? I believe i saw unmarked white estate car (like that white vauxall estate here http://malcp.com/cars.htm but probably sth else) with black tinted windows standing beside the road on navan road this morning. looked suspicious -> vans with speed cameras that I saw before looked similar (white/tinted windows).

exact location was n3/navan lane going out of dublin between halfway house and m50 roundabout just behind esso station on the left side. what makes it scary I saw them just after 50KM sign, rest of the road is 80. If my guess is right they had good fishing, me included (if they were going for "50 limit") Its usually the place where everybody starts slowing down from 80 and not already drive 50.

also recently I very frequently see them in this area either in lane going to dublin or out, usually around the bridge going over navan.

Yawlboy

White Transit camera van with a Garda Sticker on the back door parked up outside eircom at Heuston Square at 23:00 last night

meercat

Came across this yesterday
gatso van parked at side of the road
2 Garda directing traffic past the van
they were not looking at tax or insurance discs but they were recieving instructions from inside the gatso van about details from passing slow moving traffic(must also have anpr system inboard)
they had impounded 2 cars there and then

-Chris-

Victor wrote: »

Guess whats coming next month?

Yep, the vans are spread across several marques in random colours. You won't know it's a gatso van until you're on top of it. We're fooked.

corktina

I wonder could we get them taken off the road as they are not being used for a commercial purpose?:D Road Safety it supposed to be about right? Thats not commercial is it!:D

Sizzler

Can't believe this thread has got this far without someone saying

"if you stick to the speed limit you won't have to worry about where the gatos's are" :rolleyes:

I ain't going to be the one to say it though

I think the stats posted earlier says it all, Leinster is all about revenue generation.

I.S.T.

Damien360 wrote: »

Two new locations for ye.

Westbound on M4 just before exit ramp for Tullamore exit. They sit on the hard shoulder right before the exit ramp with the hazard lights on. Seen it twice there. Looks like someone working on the road from a distance (litter pickers etc).

Night time after the crappy Guns and Roses concert on N7 southbound (3 lanes 100kph). At about 12.30am parked up on hard shoulder right before Johnstown haulage. No hazards on this time but not a very safe spot. They were using the older square window vans at the time.

bbability wrote: »

Just spotted two usual gatso speed traps over the last two days but it looks like they are using the newer Garda Vans.

Just a note to take heed of your speed in the usual spots.

This morning the van was parked on the Ballymun Road just past the entrance to DCU. 50km is the limit but its an easy place to be driving over the limit if the traffic is light.

Yawlboy wrote: »

White Transit camera van with a Garda Sticker on the back door parked up outside eircom at Heuston Square at 23:00 last night

Can you guys stick them up on irishspeedtraps.com plz? Thanks.

I.S.T.

Sizzler wrote: »

Can't believe this thread has got this far without someone saying

"if you stick to the speed limit you won't have to worry about where the gatos's are" :rolleyes:

I ain't going to be the one to say it though

I think the stats posted earlier says it all, Leinster is all about revenue generation.

If you stick to the speed limit you won't have to worry about where the gatos's are