Has anyone seen any speed camera vans around?

Ali Babba

I've been country wide this week and haven't seen one yet and from what i'm hearing there aren't as many vans on the road as we were led to believe in the first place. Has anyone else seen them around?

biko

Nope not yet.

sentient_6

Ya just outside mountmellick on the tullamore side......tuesdy evening i think.

rabbitinlights

Done about 800km this week and not a single one.... kinda dissapointed.

There are 15 vans working 24hrs a day if you believe the news?

markievicz

I had one driving in front of me from Cavan to Virginia yesterday and I spotted one on the same road on the way back this evening!

Let's just say it was the longest journey of my life! Watching the clock the whole way

-Corkie-

rabbitinlights wrote: »

Done about 800km this week and not a single one.... kinda dissapointed.

There are 15 vans working 24hrs a day if you believe the news?

I thought there was supposed to be 60 or is that in Dublin.

HxGH

Not yet. I heard it was just a rumour to scare us all.

BArra

I had one driving in front of me from Cavan to Virginia yesterday and I spotted one on the same road on the way back this evening!

Let's just say it was the longest journey of my life! Watching the clock the whole way

they cant do anything if they are driving, they need to be stopped and stationary for them to catch you

(afaik )

L1011

1200km. No vans. Gone through a fair few 'enforcement zones', including a rare few with the new signs up.

sentient_6

By the way what i have seen as well is the guards perched on the bridges over the motorway at moate twice in the last three days. Am i to take it these new gatso vans are freeing up the guards to concentrate on making money off the motorways? Oh sorry, i meant making them safer & saving lives.....you know, the way our motorways are death traps & all that.

CrowdedHouse

Yes - N7 about 2km Roscrea side of Borris-in-Ossory yesterday 4:15

tinner777

not between cork city and ballyvourney twice a day all week

zac8

yes at about 1:30pm today, drogheda to duleek road.

Harcrid

I have seen one, a red transit with a 10-KY reg outside Tipperary town yesterday.

Contrary to what I have heard on the radio and seen on the news, it was not liveried up with reflective stripes and was very, very hard to spot until you were upon it.

Piri

Nothing here at Cork

Ali Babba

I was out and about today too and still nothing.

VinnyTGM

markievicz wrote: »

I had one driving in front of me from Cavan to Virginia yesterday and I spotted one on the same road on the way back this evening!

Let's just say it was the longest journey of my life! Watching the clock the whole way

Yes, very safe.
This is what these vans are encouraging.

corktina

white one with no markings in Mallow today.

fatherted1969

Ali Babba wrote: »

I've been country wide this week and haven't seen one yet and from what i'm hearing there aren't as many vans on the road as we were led to believe in the first place. Has anyone else seen them around?

There was one on the main Athy/Monasterevin road just over kill hill in Kildare all week. I seen it late on Monday not too sure if i was over the limit. Would you still get done if you were just over

rex-x

On the Waterford ring road, 60kph limit safety first . . . .

2 stroke

Urlingford johnstown road today, half hidden, no warning signs, lovely wide road.

martydunf

rex-x wrote: »

On the Waterford ring road, 60kph limit safety first . . . .

I hate that road and its ridiculous speed limit...so I refuse to use it!

Talk about generating money, they'll be on that road like flies on sh*t.

siobhan.murphy

tralee /castleisland twice a day 5 days a week and seen nothing

taffy1973

get free app TRAPSTER on your phone, its very good and will help you on your journeys

ShamoBuc

VinnyTGM wrote: »

Yes, very safe.
This is what these vans are encouraging.

On the contrary - not safe at all!
My guess is you should be spending more time watching the road!

littlesthobo

rex-x wrote: »

On the Waterford ring road, 60kph limit safety first . . . .

Red 10 KY reg one in a 50kph zone on the Quin road outside Ennis.

pedantic.pat

Walked past a white marked garda van with the camera out the back on the South Circular road just outside the Mosque on Tuesday morning with cones around it! There are also 8 marked garda vans as well as the gatso vans.http://www.garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=106&Lang=1
Obviously these 8 garda vans are not limited to the roads marked on Garda website for the gatso vans.
Beware!:D

Bondvillain

I've seen a few this week; A white one near the Curragh racecourse; a silverish one hidden away on the N7 going southbound past Rathcoole (positioned right at the sudden speed limit drop to 60 kmph for the roadworks), and a Garda speed van Parked up southbound on the same stretch near the Naas exit.

With the exception of the Garda Vehicle, they were indistinguishable from regular vans.

sean1141

red unmarked transit just outside mountrath on th portlaoise side wednsday afternoon

Joe10000

Thought I saw one on a motorway bridge, can they really be perching up there with a camera catching you as you drive underneath ??

trad

Cherrywood between the M50 and the N11, twice in 2 days. Mind you at the speed people travel there at...

alo1587

corktina wrote: »

white one with no markings in Mallow today.

Where was that parked corktina??:eek: oops...

rebel.ranter

Saw a Navy Transit (looked almost matt finish?) on the N55 near Glasson (monitoring Ballymahon to Athlone direction it seemed) on Tuesday. Didn't catch the reg but you couldn't miss it, it looked like the camera unit is mounted on the roof.
There were meant to be 46 units from the off but I heard during the week that only 15 are operational at the minute.

AugustusMinimus

More to the point.

Has anyone seen one of these vans in an area not listed on the Garda website ?

dgt

Saw 2 this week, one outside the maxol ststion on the navan road in dublin and the next day one was driving just out of dunshaughlin towards dublin

terrymc3

Anyone have any idea how close you have to be for them to clock ya. I've heard can be up to half a km but I know the Garda vans were 100ft any info would be great!

AugustusMinimus

terrymc3 wrote: »

Anyone have any idea how close you have to be for them to clock ya. I've heard can be up to half a km but I know the Garda vans were 100ft any info would be great!

I've read up to 1km although you have to be within 100m for them to get your reg no.

If you think it's safe to do so, turn around before you get within 100m of the van if you think you were speeding and take an alternative route. I know this is what I'd do.

corktina

alo1587 wrote: »

Where was that parked corktina??:eek: oops...

N72 west of town near end of speed limit....

trad

The two I saw (same van) was and 08D white transit with Garda markings.

Am I right in assuming that gosafe is not operating in Dublin Area yet?

Dabzarch

2 stroke wrote: »

Urlingford johnstown road today, half hidden, no warning signs, lovely wide road.

I passed this stretch yesterday at approx 10:30 an there was an unmarked navy van (transit i think) pulled in facing the Urlingford side and I passed back this way at approx 14:45 and the van was replaced with a blue van with all the stickers etc on it. I though it was strange.

why switch them?

kikel

Was travelling between Portlaoise and Abbeyleix today at 2pm. Spotted 2 vans within 3 miles of each other neither with any markings. Returning an hour later spotted on the same road spotted another 2. One with markings the other without.

pm.

Dabzarch wrote: »

I passed this stretch yesterday at approx 10:30 an there was an unmarked navy van (transit i think) pulled in facing the Urlingford side and I passed back this way at approx 14:45 and the van was replaced with a blue van with all the stickers etc on it. I though it was strange.

why switch them?

I seen the same thing outside of protarlingtin, i think the van with the markings on it is used for night time as it has a lot of reflective stickers on it

DaveClaire

I was behind in a row of 4 cars behind a navy Transit unmarked, but it was travelling at 50mph so I overtook it and was up at 70 till I passed and then slowed to the speed limit so fingers crossed I dont get a letter in the post soon!

highlydebased

DaveClaire wrote: »

I was behind in a row of 4 cars behind a navy Transit unmarked, but it was travelling at 50mph so I overtook it and was up at 70 till I passed and then slowed to the speed limit so fingers crossed I dont get a letter in the post soon!

The cameras cannot operate while the van is in motion.

PARKHEAD67

Celtxx wrote: »

I have seen one, a red transit with a 10-KY reg outside Tipperary town yesterday.

Contrary to what I have heard on the radio and seen on the news, it was not liveried up with reflective stripes and was very, very hard to spot until you were upon it.

Its safe enough to know tis a money making racket. These 'safety' cameras can spot you from a kilometer away.When you try to keep to these stupid limits its nearly impossible. Anyway-its all about safety-We know this coz our government told us.Safety me arse. A money making racket akin to an old skool chicago gangster.

**Timbuk2**

One on the Dundalk-Castleblaney Road, on a straight section between Cullaville and Dundalk.

Good to see them around anyway!

Edit: Marked well - orangle reflectors, camera symbol on it.

DaveClaire

Neon-Circles wrote: »

The cameras cannot operate while the van is in motion.

I read in a newspaper article that it can! Maybe it was wrong I dont know!

eringobragh

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

I've read up to 1km although you have to be within 100m for them to get your reg no.

If you think it's safe to do so, turn around before you get within 100m of the van if you think you were speeding and take an alternative route. I know this is what I'd do.

Nonsense, these use the same technology as what's currently out there. It's using the Redflex Radarcam system and use low powered K band RADAR, same as the others, GATSO and Multanova.

X1R

2 vans in Strokestown Co Roscommon ALL DAT Friday.
First on parked in the town?, heading towards Elphin/Carrick On Shannon,
Second parked inside the 50 zone (still in town) on the N5 West towards Tulsk.
Safety.......Salary Safety me thinks.

redhand07

do they only track the speed of the traffic on one side of the road or both, ie. the traffic driving towards the rear of the vans.

saw a yellow one just outside listowel friday night at 10 pm

AugustusMinimus

eringobragh wrote: »

Nonsense, these use the same technology as what's currently out there. It's using the Redflex Radarcam system and use low powered K band RADAR, same as the others, GATSO and Multanova.

Ok. So what is the range and how close must you be before they can note your reg number ?