Where would you LIKE to see a speed camera?

Gonzales the mouse

As the thread title says, where would you like to see a speed camera? I see lots of threads bitching about the location of "fish in a barrel" locations, but is there anyone here who'd actually like to see cameras in a specific location?

Personally, I'd like to see a camera at the part where the M50 joins the N4, the speed limit is 50 km/h on the N4 but most people exceed that speed limit ridiculously. When I'm on the road between the M50 and N4, it is small and winding and you only emerge at 50 km/h.

This is on my route to work.

You end up with cars up your arse flashing and tailgating.

I'd love to see an average speed camera at the start and end of that 50 km/h stretch so there's a permanent deterrent place to stop speeders.

Where would you like to see one?

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colm_mcm

I’m not pushed. I usually get more bothered by people going too slow.

What would be very effective is average speed cameras 20km apart from each other. Not suggesting they fit them anyway err though!

CiniO

Simple answer - nowhere.
I would like to have no speed cameras at all.

antodeco

I'd actually prefer cameras used on a lot of junctions. To prevent breaking lights, blocking junctions, skipping traffic along bus lanes.

Del2005

I'd like them on the actual dangerous section not the clear open road close by. I think that we should put "Your Speed is" signs before the speed camera so if you are driving too fast for the dangerous section, assuming the speed limit is set correct, then you'll get a warning to slow down, which means that the risk in the dangerous section is reduced, and if you ignore that then you deserve the ticket.

They should also be outside schools during the restricted speed limit times, like in the US, with double points if caught. If possible they could also enforce parking but that'll never happen.

flatty

Shoved up the hole of a traffic warden.

flatty

Shoved up the hole of a traffic warden?

jjpep

Everywhere

liamog

Speed doesn't kill, dangerous driving does.

I'd rather see red light cameras, yellow box cameras and a camera on the front of every bus to enforce bus lanes.
Red light cameras prevent dangerous driving through junctions, the yellow box cameras help prevent congestion. A bus lane camera, helps the busses flow and stops the queue jumpers.

DaveyDave

I'd love to see one on the M50 and the N4. Of all the roads I've driven in Dublin these are the worst speed wise. It's a joke that we don't have speed cameras there. I'm sure there'd be a fair bit of money that could go back into the economy.

Doesn't matter what direction I'm going on the N4. From Woodies down to Dosboro, one day some **** passed me at about 120 while I was coming off the slip. No other cars on the road, don't know why he felt the need to stay in the left lane. Any other day everyone's doing 90-100. You can't go 5 minutes down the N4 without some clowns flying past in the right lane.

I agree some speed limits are too low but the fact is these are the limits in place. The problem on the roads is morons driving their own way, speeding, tailgating and cutting people off that upsets the flow of traffic.

endacl

flatty wrote: »

Shoved up the hole of a traffic warden.

flatty wrote: »

Shoved up the hole of a traffic warden?

You appear to lack the courage of your conviction.

sligojoek

The car park / drop off point for our local school is across a busy national route from the school. Parents and children get the green light and then have to wait thirty seconds before all the trucks and vans and cars have passed through the red light at speeds well in excess of the limit. The speed vans sit a few Km away doing people for 110 in a 100 zone.

To be fair to the local guards they often plonk the squad car just before the lights with the blues flashing but not stop anybody. They can't be there twice a day every day as they have other stuff to be doing.

A camera atop the lights in each direction sending out tickets wouldn't be long sending out the message that , this isn't a village to speed through.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

endacl wrote: »

You appear to lack the courage of your conviction.

It almost like the second one was asking permission! "Please, Mum...?"

G-Man

Thew new 30km zones are mostly ignored. Some cameras and perhaps flashing text signs might get the selfish motorists slow down, so thats 100% of motorists to be caught..

AH hold on, they dont even slow down for pedestrians crossing, children on bikes, or old people .. You know they types of people, the 30km zones for designed for.

demanufactured

CiniO wrote: »

Simple answer - nowhere.
I would like to have no speed cameras at all.

This..

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

"Yeah, sure, a few lives will be saved, but MILLIONS wil be LATE!!!!"

Hasmunch

Can we get red light cameras instead?

H3llR4iser

I would second the concept that red light and lane control cameras are way, way, way more urgently needed.

As someone who uses public transport every day to go/get back from work, hogging of bus lanes in the morning is ridiculous; There'd always be a stream of muppets going down the bus lane, with the old trick of "pretending to be turning left". I swear it's more or less the same people/cars every morning...

Again as someone who has to walk daily from the bus/train stop to work and back, it'd also be a good idea to use some "behaviour sampling" system when it comes to pedestrians and cyclists - the area around the canal can be absolute chaos, mostly with "red men" ignored thoroughly and riders pretending pedestrian crossings don't apply to them.

Speed cameras for the sake of having them serve no purpose - e.g. the "average speed cameras" in the port tunnel, where there have hardly ever been any fatalities. The only result it is achieving, so far, is that I'm seeing quite a few lorries with unreadable/removed registration plates...

Farmer Bob

flatty wrote: »

Shoved up the hole of a traffic warden.

Because traffic wardens have what exactly to do with speed cameras???

If you had wrote “Shoved up the hole of a Garda from the Traffic Corps” or “Shoved up the hole of a GoSafe employee”, then maybe...

But a traffic warden?

rgodard80a

I'm surprised they don't have average speed camera zones all the way up most motorways. That would certainly avoid the need for random speed checks.

Also if buses had dashcams that recorded people driving in the bus lane, and they were all processed automatically, that would cut down on people who use the "VIP lane" to skip traffic especially in rush hour.

redcup342

This is a motoring forum ... why the hell would you even want any speed cameras. :pac:

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Charles Babbage

redcup342 wrote: »

This is a motoring forum ... why the hell would you even want any speed cameras. :pac:

Because we drive on the road and do not wish to be rammed by dangerous drivers?

However, cameras to regulate lanes, undertaking etc are perhaps more needed. Especially in the vicinity of motorway junctions to identify the swervers from lane 3 to the exit, those entering the motorway who bulldoze from the entry slip road to lane 3, those who enter the left lane and then undertake the vehicles that moved out to allow them enter and those who think merging at half the speed of the traffic on the main road is a good idea.

Caliden

liamog wrote: »

Speed doesn't kill, dangerous driving does.

I'd rather see red light cameras, yellow box cameras and a camera on the front of every bus to enforce bus lanes.
Red light cameras prevent dangerous driving through junctions, the yellow box cameras help prevent congestion. A bus lane camera, helps the busses flow and stops the queue jumpers.

Almost every Dublin bus has 6 cameras all with extremely high quality.

bladespin

Schools, pedestrian crossings and as said above traffic lights would be the most important imo.

Vicxas

Does at the bottom of a lake count?


Honestly tho, at dangerous junctions. I've noticed far too many people bombing through junctions and nearly smashing into another car.

redcup342

Charles Babbage wrote: »

Because we drive on the road and do not wish to be rammed by dangerous drivers?

However, cameras to regulate lanes, undertaking etc are perhaps more needed. Especially in the vicinity of motorway junctions to identify the swervers from lane 3 to the exit, those entering the motorway who bulldoze from the entry slip road to lane 3, those who enter the left lane and then undertake the vehicles that moved out to allow them enter and those who think merging at half the speed of the traffic on the main road is a good idea.

Yeah but the camera won't stop someone ramming into you.

Just like having a camera point as someone won't stop them shooting you with a gun.

Isambard

i'd like them to be relocated to Hammond Lane please.

As long as it gets by best side, I'm not bothered.

Charles Babbage

redcup342 wrote: »

Yeah but the camera won't stop someone ramming into you.

Just like having a camera point as someone won't stop them shooting you with a gun.

It might stop someone ramming into you if they were suspended, or if they had modified their driving style to avoid being suspended.

Del2005

Charles Babbage wrote: »

It might stop someone ramming into you if they were suspended, or if they had modified their driving style to avoid being suspended.

They aren't suspended till a few weeks after they passed the camera they didn't know was there, so they will ram you and get a fine from the camera a few weeks later. So how does the camera stop someone who doesn't know its there?

mojesius

Similar to the OP, cameras in the M3/m50 spaghetti junction (same with M1, m50 towards city actually). People fly around these tight bends at 80/100km getting aggressive if you're not taking said bends like an F1 driver, not a **** is given about the speed limits. One accident on these bends can cause tailbacks for miles.

Mc Love

My local road would be a prime spot for shooting fish in a barrel and thus making it a lot safer for pedestrian. I think i might put up one of those speed camera signs myself.

i57dwun4yb1pt8

flatty wrote: »

Shoved up the hole of a traffic warden?

I'M Ron Burgundy ? ??

redcup342

Charles Babbage wrote: »

redcup342 wrote: »

Yeah but the camera won't stop someone ramming into you.

Just like having a camera point as someone won't stop them shooting you with a gun.

It might stop someone ramming into you if they were suspended, or if they had modified their driving style to avoid being suspended.

Look on the Garda Twitter thread ... loads of people continue to drive around after being suspended