Should speed cameras be hidden.

I have no issue, I just called you out on your exaggeration.

I never said I was against enforcement, I just called you out on your exaggerated statements. If you want to bring up a point and try get something done there is no point in lying or exaggerating about it, it doesn't help your cause. If i'm being honest, I see a lot more problems on roads causing crashes than speeding does.

can you please quote where I said that statement?, as it wasn't me, I never said that.

I've no issue with speed cameras, considering i'm driving 26 years and have never had a fine or penalty point for speeding.

My issue was your exaggerations

em no it doesn't, it's explaining to you how speed cameras work and why people are braking and why the location of the camera. The RSA have said this on numerous occassions also, does that mean they're against hidden cameras?

That can't be right. I was caught a few hundred metres out, by a van. Nowhere near the 40m.

Maybe I should have asked for the photo, for curiosity sake.

True, but at least it means anyone who is caught is not watching the road, which is far more dangerous than straying over the limit in my view.

I had the pleasure of watching the car in front of me being caught by one a couple of years ago, they were on the phone and had already annoyed me being slow to move away from a green light and then weave all over the lane. Was delighted to see the speed camera flash as they passed it!

I want to get from A to B as fast as I can without having a fear of being fined or reprimanded. My most travelled route is a little over 80km so small enough changes in speed add up over time.

I guess I could ask a similar question to you: Why do you knowingly set your cruise control to 5 km/h below the posted limit (so probably about 7/8 km/h below (or more) in actual speed). What do you think you'll gain?

If we were both travelling eastbound from where the 100 km/h limit begins after Ballinalack and we were both exiting at junction 12 of the M4 at Kinnegad, we would have travelled just under 31km. About 24km of that distance is 100 km/h N-road and the remaining 7km is 120 km/h M-road. Based on what we ser out cruise control to, there would be about a 10 km/h difference in our speeds. For arguments sake, we'll say that I would be doing 103 km/h for the N road and 123 km/h for the M road, with you being 10 km/h slower and we'll pretend there are no slower cars in front.

So for my journey, the 100 km/h stretch would take me about 14 minutes and the 120 km/h section would take about 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Total time of 17 minutes and 30 seconds.

For your journey, the 100 km/h stretch would take you about 15 minutes and 30 seconds, and the 120 km/h section would take 3 minutes and 43 seconds. Total time of 19 minutes and 13 seconds.

So there you go, for just one section of a journey I regularly take, in one direction only and in one instance only, I already save nearly 2 minutes over your expected journey time. At the moment, I make that return trip about three times a week on average so that's over 10 minutes saved in a week. If I did the same amount of journeys for 50 weeks of the year, I would save over 8 and a half hours of time for just that 31km section of my 81 km trip.