Speed camera question

i'll be the party pooper and say that limits are limits not targets.
and i think get rid of marked speed vans and signs indicating same and make them unmarked and send out bloody speed fines. might make some muppets think twice about the speed they drive at.

no one is ever going to convince me that they need to be driving past the limit on the road sign.
leave earlier if you need to be somewhere, and whoever said driving must be enjoyable. it's just driving.

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

It used to be a lot of leeway, maybe 10kph over, but they have brought in new rules (I think it is from the RSA) that mean the Limit is the Limit, which really pi55es me off - from May 15th you will not be allowed do even 1kph over or you'll get a ticket, which is stupidly harsh and strikes me as just the usual money-grubbing. These rules are already in place in France since earlier last month and are causing speeding ticket numbers to rocket.

Do you have a source for that?

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I hate that excuse of "Ah I was only doing 63 in the 50." Your speedo will be reading around the 70 mark for the camera to detect you at 63, that blatant ignorance of speed limit signs is straying from carelessly negligent to dangerously so.

True to a point...however,at least one eminent Judge has misgivings as to the calibre of the State's Speed Detection Contractors....

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/judge-angry-as-secret-rules-on-speed-limits-kept-from-him-30073893.html

That Judge has performed some service to this Republic,simply by seeking simple answers from a crowd who obviously consider their operations above scrutiny...

Go Safe official Christopher Quinn told the court that Mr Derwin was driving at 89km per hour in a 80km zone when detected at Drumana, Crusheen on August 25 last.

Judge Durcan said: "Tell me, Mr Quinn, at what level of excess of the speed limit do you commence prosecution?"

In response, Mr Quinn said: "I am not supposed to disclose that, your honour." In reply, Judge Durcan said: "Sorry, you are in court and you are on oath and if that is your attitude I am striking out the prosecution."

Addressing Insp Tom Kennedy of Ennis Garda Station, Judge Durcan said: "Insp Kennedy, you might convey to Insp McDonald that if a witness is asked a question, a witness should answer it."

Other revelations on the foot of this article make for equally intriguing reading....

The GoSafe consortium secured the €80m Garda Siochana contract to operate the network of speed camera vans in 2009. The consortium's most recent accounts show it had operating profits of almost €50,000 a week in 2012.

Since then it moved to place the scale of its profits beyond public scrutiny by going unlimited, which removes the requirement to file annual accounts.

On average, the GoSafe vans detect one speeding motorist per hour working out at 72,000 detections per annum as it is contracted to provide 6,000 hours per month.

This little nugget about Go-Safe becoming an UNlimited company,thus evading the requirement to file annual accounts,just reeks of dubious carry-on and begs the question WHY would Go-Safe feel it needed to conceal it's financials from the gaze of those who are funding it ?

Blatant ignorance,careless negligence and danger are not necessarily the sole preserve of the motorist either...;)

Bog Standard User wrote: »

not true... speed laser guns also capture your reg plate... they can send the fine in the post.

No good with motorbikes then is it?