Gardaí announce locations for nine new static speed cameras throughout Ireland

Kaisr Sose

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122094856#Comment_122094856

Or repaint road markings. May roads they are totally absent/indecernable from years of wear

timmyntc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122095163#Comment_122095163

Road deaths are increasing due to increasing population and other factors like phone use, it doesn't mean that speed cameras are not having an impact. If speed enforcement disappeared tomorrow deaths would be even higher

KrisW1001

Yes. Speed is an exacerbating factor in every road incident. It turns near misses into fatalities, and that's why it's being policed.

Naturally you get the guys (it's always males) who think they're so much better at driving than anyone else and thus see this as an unacceptable imposition on their rights, but those guys are, frankly, idiots, and they're not even representative of the people who are into cars.

I know a few people who are really into the car scene here, one of whom has a pretty solid rallying career behind him, titles included. The one thing that they never did was speed on the public road. In motorsport circles, speeding and dicking around is the mark of the knobend.

n.d.os

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122094886#Comment_122094886

The whole idea is to make people aware of danger and speed. Yes, everyone will be aware of it but it might encourage them to slowdown elsewhere on this stretch of road which currently is a the old main road out of Arklow into Gorey and particularly dangerous at night due to it's high speed limit, poor visibility and lack of sufficient road markings.

Calahonda52

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122092259#Comment_122092259

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122092259#Comment_122092259

the well signposted average speed cameras on the M7 near Birdhill still get multiple drivers every day, not all from NI who lash through at 130 and more

IsaacWunder

It is absolutely, mind-numbingly moronic that they’re even proposing to erect static speed cameras in 2024. It is technology that is 30 years out of date. I could not think of a bigger waste of money.

David Tucker

I saw some of these speed cameras being constructed on the Enniskillen to Cavan road last week although not mentioned in the list above, they were yellow. I remember them from the A40 near London in the 1990s. At the time they had 7 or 8 of them within 10 miles but they moved the cameras between them because cameras and film were expensive and I think the psychology that people didn't know which one had film made people slow down at all of them. This new effort may or may not be successful but it is another way to remind people slow down at known dangerous places. It may save lives, so it is worth the investment on a new idea for Ireland.

MayoSalmon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122129195#Comment_122129195

How about a bike shed or a million euro security hut

mydiscworld

An Garda Síochána has begun commissioning and testing average speed cameras in Co Cavan and Co Mayo.

It is part of the planned introduction of three average speed cameras and nine static speed safety cameras across the country this year.

Infrastructure and technology for two camera systems have been installed on the N3 in Cavan, between Kilduff and Billis, and the N5 in Mayo, between Lislackagh and Cuilmore, Swinford, gardaí have said.

https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2024/1003/1473325-garda-speed-cameras/

Sam Russell

Mod: This is a thread in infrastructure. Take your motoring views to the motor section.

Off topic posts will be deleted when I have time.

highdef

When will the government get the finger out and just get going with installing average speed cameras nationwide, instead of the tiny piecemeal fashion as is the case now? There's all this talk about reducing road deaths and speeding but not a huge amount being done about it. The discussions about reducing speed limits is absolutely ridiculous as those who decide to speed will continue to speed as they know that the chances of being caught are very slim, whereas enforcing the current laws is what is really required.

yannakis

Have they published the actual locations of the cameras? Stretches of roads near towns are kinda useless 😶🙄

dastardly00

Duplicate post

dastardly00

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122912620#Comment_122912620

The actual locations haven't been published as far as I know. But the static camera in Galway (N59, between Moycullen and Galway City) has been installed. It hasn't been commissioned yet.

Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/cGwHLGw8BFfpDT686?g_st=ac

highdef

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122912620#Comment_122912620

Can we not just have average speed cameras dotted around wherever is deemed required on public roads? What's the big problem that people have with them? If you're driving as you should, there's literally no issue with the cameras impacting your life, whatsoever. I cannot fathom why an oddly large percentage of people have issues with devices that catch people out doing doing illegal things.

At this rate, we should get rid of cameras in shops as they can catch you shoplifting and you can be reprimanded as a result. Shock, horror!

DumbBrunette

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122912620#Comment_122912620

The locations for the nine static speed safety cameras are:

Galway, N59, between Moycullen and Galway City
Waterford, N25, between Glenmore and Luffany
Wicklow, R772, Arklow Road, Aske, north of Gorey
Donegal, N14, east of Letterkenny
Carlow, N80, between Barristown and Levitstown
Dublin, Crumlin Road/Parnell Road/Dolphin Road/Dolphin’s Barn Junction
Mayo, N17, northeast of Claremorris
Cork, N22, east of Lissarda, west of Ovens
Limerick, N69, east of Askeaton

KrisW1001

That N22 one must be set up for night photography... traffic volumes along there any time there's daylight mean you never get anywhere near the posted speed limit.

mattser

😁😁

yannakis

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't complaining about the installation of cameras and average speed zones. I'm happy they are installing them.

My frustration is with the lack of information about exact locations. "Mayo N17 northeast of Claremorris" says nothing for us trying to update maps :)

yannakis

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122918272#Comment_122918272

Thank you, that was added to Waze last week. One-way towards Moycullen, right?

dastardly00

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122920072#Comment_122920072

The camera is pointing towards Moycullen.

I assume (maybe incorrectly) it can photograph vehicles on either side of the road though?

mydiscworld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122919802#Comment_122919802

Has this one been rolled out yet between Lissarda and Ovens?

Apogee

Camera being installed on N22

Consonata

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122092259#Comment_122092259

I mean, if they are slowing down when these speed cameras are nearby at the accident hot spots, surely thats the cameras doing a good job?

The whole point of these things is to stop drivers breaking the limit in dangerous areas in particular. This seems like they will do that.

gooseman12

N22 Camera was switched on this morning, a full year and a day from the announcement at that start of this thread.