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Cameras on Ballincollig bypass

  • 03-03-2020 7:27am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,591 ✭✭✭


    I noticed this morning that all bridges on the Ballincollig bypass now have cameras attached facing both carriageways against the direction of traffic.

    The cameras are on long poles tied to the guard rails on the bridges. The cameras are attached to boxes at the bottom via cables.

    Any idea what these are for?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,566 ✭✭✭kub


    I noticed this morning that all bridges on the Ballincollig bypass now have cameras attached facing both carriageways against the direction of traffic.

    The cameras are on long poles tied to the guard rails on the bridges. The cameras are attached to boxes at the bottom via cables.

    Any idea what these are for?

    They are all over the place on major roads in Cork, there is a survey being undertaken.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,591 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    kub wrote: »
    They are all over the place on major roads in Cork, there is a survey being undertaken.

    Is it for CMATS?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭Producer Ben


    dangerous they are. People seeing them last minute and jamming on the brakes thinking they're speed cameras


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭hans aus dtschl


    All over East Cork and the N25 also.
    Also the usual surface-mounted counters stretched across very many of the roads too.

    Anyone know what this particular survey is for?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    All over East Cork and the N25 also.
    Also the usual surface-mounted counters stretched across very many of the roads too.

    Anyone know what this particular survey is for?
    Isn't that kind of thing used for traffic flow measurements and applied to overall traffic control?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭hans aus dtschl


    dangerous they are. People seeing them last minute and jamming on the brakes thinking they're speed cameras

    I understand your point (and of course it makes sense) but I would just to point out that the drivers jamming on the brakes are what's dangerous.

    Yes the cameras cause some dangerous drivers to act erratically but it's their idiotic behaviour that is the fundamental problem, rather than the cameras.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭hans aus dtschl


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Isn't that kind of thing used for traffic flow measurements and applied to overall traffic control?

    Yeah these are the standard counters that they use for all the major projects. But there's a lot of them about over the last week or so.

    The camera-counters seem to be used for the motorways and the surface counters for the other roads. The camera counters get placed on the motorway overpasses, attached to the guard-rail and raised up well above head-height, pointing down at the lanes below.

    The temporary ones I'm talking about don't look like the locations listed on the TII website though:
    https://www.nratrafficdata.ie/c2/gmapbasic.asp?sgid=ZvyVmXU8jBt9PJE$c7UXt6
    Instead, they are on a number of the minor back-roads around East Cork. Whoever's doing it picked some good locations, because some of the undocumented heavily-used rat-runs are covered.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭un5byh7sqpd2x0


    All over East Cork and the N25 also.
    Also the usual surface-mounted counters stretched across very many of the roads too.

    Anyone know what this particular survey is for?

    They’re for the M20. They’re all over Limerick too

    https://twitter.com/LimerickCouncil/status/1232246998037864450


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭hans aus dtschl


    They’re for the M20. They’re all over Limerick too

    Thanks, I was thinking it could be.
    As I say, they've picked some good spots because some of the lesser-known rat-runs are covered.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    dangerous they are. People seeing them last minute and jamming on the brakes thinking they're speed cameras

    That'll be the drivers being dangerous, not the cameras.

    Anyway, the cameras appeared on the bridge in Waterford too.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,617 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    More info here

    https://corksafetyalerts.com/news/n-m20-cork-limerick-notice-of-traffic-surveys/

    There will be cameras going up at some stage as well for the N40/Dunkettle ITS system, but these will be permanent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭Limerick74


    JohnC. wrote: »
    That'll be the drivers being dangerous, not the cameras.

    Anyway, the cameras appeared on the bridge in Waterford too.


    The camera in Waterford is not part of the M20 survey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭Limerick74




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