N4 Mullingar bypass speed camera warning

Micky 32

The cops will be putting mobile speed cameras on the bridges over the dual carraige way on the Mullingar bypass from Monday to the end of March as a pilot scheme. They will be moving them around on a regular basis. I can’t say if it’s 100% true but the source i got is fairly reliable. So just watch out and check your speed. Don’t give any excuse for a hand in your pocket.

BronsonTB

Cheers for the heads up....will keep an eye out.

Dravokivich

If you get caught speeding you know what you're at. No one is aiming for your back pocket. You give it freely.

punisher5112

It's only getting worse they're like kids with toys at Christmas, they got them new guns and need to make the money back to pay for them.

Micky 32

Dravokivich wrote: »

If you get caught speeding you know what you're at. No one is aiming for your back pocket. You give it freely.

The problem is that with human nature it’s very easy to drift a few kms over the limit especially on good roads like that. Cops and vans are doing people slightly over the limit these days. Fair enough crucify the ones barrelling at 140/150 kmhr so they don’t blow people off their high horses as they pass ;-)

august12

I have noticed some of these cameras in the last two weeks on the motorway, needless to say, I was motoring nicely when I spotted them, also on way home this evening, a guard with his new toy in the 60km zone heading out from the village and nicely hidden from unsuspecting motorists heading home after a good day at the office!!! And I know people will say, if you obey the law and drive within the limit, then you have nothing to fear, but it's so difficult keeping within the limits exiting towns.

Micky 32

august12 wrote: »

I have noticed some of these cameras in the last two weeks on the motorway, needless to say, I was motoring nicely when I spotted them, also on way home this evening, a guard with his new toy in the 60km zone heading out from the village and nicely hidden from unsuspecting motorists heading home after a good day at the office!!! And I know people will say, if you obey the law and drive within the limit, then you have nothing to fear, but it's so difficult keeping within the limits exiting towns.

Which motorway? What do they look like? Yeah the cops love sitting on the ramp on the M6 going into Galway where the limit suddenly drops from 120 to 100.

august12

Micky 32 wrote: »

Which motorway? What do they look like? Yeah the cops love sitting on the ramp on the M6 going into Galway where the limit suddenly drops from 120 to 100.

Birdhill to Finnegan's roundabout and also on the Cork exit after Finnegan's, I am useless with exit numbers, will check to see if still there in the morn, there were at least 4 over head cameras two on either side of motorway. Not sure if they were in relation to traffic management but I did check the motorway transport website and there weren't any located at those points.

un5byh7sqpd2x0

Dravokivich wrote: »

If you get caught speeding you know what you're at. No one is aiming for your back pocket. You give it freely.

Is it cold up there?

Whocare

Rubbish surveying cameras same down around cork the last few days

august12

Whocare wrote: »

Rubbish surveying cameras same down around cork the last few days

Oh that's good to know.

twin_beacon

Micky 32 wrote: »

The problem is that with human nature it’s very easy to drift a few kms over the limit especially on good roads like that. Cops and vans are doing people slightly over the limit these days. Fair enough crucify the ones barrelling at 140/150 kmhr so they don’t blow people off their high horses as they pass ;-)

yea it feels unnatural driving slower on a road with a speed limit thats lower than the speed the road was designed for. The N4 Dual Carriageway in Mullingar is a good example. The old N4/N6 is mainly a 80 kmph road now, even though its designed for 100 kmph. Its just safer to set the cruise control and try to ignore the idiots that tailgate you. There are plenty of sped vans on these roads.

The N4 around Mullingar has always been bad for guards with the hair dryers parked on the exit ramps.

Dravokivich

Baylee Delightful Ubiquity wrote: »

Is it cold up there?

Dont blame someone else for your own actions is all I was saying.

Dravokivich

LIGHTNING wrote: »

BARF

You need a towel to wipe the drool off?

mfceiling

august12 wrote: »

I have noticed some of these cameras in the last two weeks on the motorway, needless to say, I was motoring nicely when I spotted them, also on way home this evening, a guard with his new toy in the 60km zone heading out from the village and nicely hidden from unsuspecting motorists heading home after a good day at the office!!! And I know people will say, if you obey the law and drive within the limit, then you have nothing to fear, but it's so difficult keeping within the limits exiting towns.

To be fair it's not really that hard. If it's a 50 then stay below it...same in a 60 zone. I'm amazed at the amount of people who sit up my hole because I won't go faster than the speed limit around towns or on the outskirts.
Last night a lad followed me down the spawell bypass about 4 inches from my bumper. Same down past Cheeverstown. Then when he got near the lights he bombed down the "24hour" bus lane, cut back in to the straight ahead lane and flew through a red light. That's the kind of prick that doesn't give a rats about speed limits around towns and no harm if a speed van gets him.