Speed Detection Cameras Around Ireland

Rocky_Dennis

Recieved an email earlier about speed detection cameras being placed around Ireland. Here is the link to where they will be set up.

http://www.garda.ie/Controller.Aspx?Page=5590&Lang=1

easyeason3

It shouldn't be of any interest to drivers who don't speed.

Kimono-Girl

i don't speed so it doesn't bother me!

orourkeda

Isn't it a pity that they dont have a drunk driver detector or an unroadworthy vehicle detector or an insurance disc detector even.

squod

More cr^p on the side of the road for people to crash into. Lol at the one on the Kells road Navan. Every camera gets burnt out there, clever buggers them speed camera guys.

Johnny Utah

Andrewh1984 wrote: »

Recieved an email earlier about speed detection cameras being placed around Ireland. Here is the link to where they will be set up.

http://www.garda.ie/Controller.Aspx?Page=5590&Lang=1

If you think that the speed cameras (aka safety cameras :rolleyes:) will be confined to those roads in the link, then you are very naive. They will be placed on the roads where they can return the most revenue- think M50, dual carriageways, roads where the camera van can be hidden behind trees/road signs etc.

And this crowd will carry out this work with the same sort of gutso as the private clampers.

Well this is what happens to them in the UK!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9MvCHEy--4

TheZohanS

orourkeda wrote: »

Isn't it a pity that they dont have a drunk driver detector or an unroadworthy vehicle detector or an insurance disc detector even.

I've always wondered why the gardai don't wait at the entrances and exits of pub/niteclub carparks at the weekend.

mawk

TheZohan wrote: »

I've always wondered why the gardai don't wait at the entrances and exits of pub/niteclub carparks at the weekend.

nightclubs close late and guards need their beauty sleep. some quite a lot of it.


two sets of cameras appeared at little island in cork between yesterday evening and work this morning.

Johnny Utah

Deleted User wrote: »

Well this is what happens to them in the UK!

Just to clarify: the speed cameras being rolled out in Ireland are not fixed cameras as seen in the video above, rather the cameras we're getting will be located in the back of commercial vans. The speed camera will point out the back window of the van. The back window will be tinted, except for a small square to allow the camera to operate. Afaik, these vans will not have any markings on them and will be used to numerous locations around the country.

If the private operator is as ruthless as I expect them to be, then a significant number of motorists will lose their licence in no time (it only takes six speeding offences to lose your licence) and there will be uproar on Liveline!

patrickc

theres loads of thread thataway ........ on them in the motors forum

BTW thats an old link approx a year old, and not the new for the "safety" cameras.

Allison91

Not many people actually drive the speed limit it was one of the first things I noticed when I started driving.

Johnny Utah

Johnny Utah wrote: »

If the private operator is as ruthless as I expect them to be, then a significant number of motorists will lose their licence in no time (it only takes six speeding offences to lose your licence) and there will be uproar on Liveline!

There was a case in England where a woman drove up and down the same bit of road several times a day, passed a van each time and went from a clean (20 years +) license to banned!

She had been using that same road all her life. Once stopped by the police and she'd have only got 3 points and warned not to speed again, instead she was blissfully unaware she was getting flashed!

TheZohanS

Johnny Utah wrote: »

If you think that the speed cameras (aka safety cameras :rolleyes:) will be confined to those roads in the link, then you are very naive. They will be placed on the roads where they can return the most revenue- think M50, dual carriageways, roads where the camera van can be hidden behind trees/road signs etc.

And this crowd will carry out this work with the same sort of gutso as the private clampers.

Have a look at the cameras for Kildare, all straight roads and none of them are accident blackspots.

Bastards.