Speeding Q&A superthread

Was heading down to Avondale last Tuesday and think I got caught coming out of Glenealy by a speed van sitting just after a bend. Waiting with baited breath for a letter though the door but nothing yet. Whats the average time to get one of these dreaded letters?

Can you get done by the Speed Van on the motorway in the opposite lane of traffic when there’s a wall at the median strip ?

Proof of up to 1km detection.

It's another idiotic pandering "seen to be doing something" notion that will only frustrate motorists and I'm sure generate a lot of extra cash in fines and penalty points/insurance impacts.

From what I've seen online, several of the councils themselves seem against it, complaining that it's being imposed on them by Dublin.

Might need extra signs put up where you go from a local (60kmh) L road onto a regional (80kmh) R road where up to now there would have been no need as they would both have been a contiguous 80kmh zone.

Whatever about the speed vans, I think it's been 10-15 years since I've seen the proverbial guard hiding behind a tree with the speed gun. Maybe I've been less observant. But what a turkey shoot it must have been. He was tucked in behind the southern pillar of the bridge at Kilmacanoge on a Sunday evening. Maybe he caught enough that evening that they haven't had to venture out since.

Whats the tolerance on the speed vans ? Was doing 106 indicated which is 102 on GPS when I passed one. 100 zone, Wicklow today. Had been a steady 103 before that which is 100 GPS.

Is there a way we could check for Speeding tickets as I have recently changed my address.

This is very true, and simultaneously surprising and depressing on a motors forum but particularly over on the Commuting side where anyone not wholly in favour of buses, bikes and pedestrian power is the devil.

Each to their own I guess - unless you're a motorist who actually likes their car and driving.

If you think you may have been issued an FCN you can contact the fixed charge processing office in Thurles and check

Introducing that sign wasn't the smartest idea

To me, that sign with the back stripe, means end of speed restriction.

Fado fado.. it meant end of 30/40mph , and that 55/60mph applied

Then we went to km, and it was replaced with 100km signs.

I'm the UK that sign means 60mph, in Germany it means.. end of speed limit.

I don't understand why we went with its either 60 or 80kmh.