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Would anyone here actually like to see a speed camera anywhere?

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  • #32
    RHJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 925 ✭✭✭RHJ


    Another idea that should happen in my opinion is to encourage more people to have dash cams and helmet cams and set up a website where people could upload footage of law-breaking or reckless behaviour on the road and then have that footage reviewed by the Garda.

    I think the above would require a change in the law so make footage from dash and helmet cams legally admissible in court or to issue a fine.


  • #33
    Lord Nikon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Lord Nikon


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Personally, I'd be of the opinion the cameras shouldn't be visible.



    Theres always accidents on various stretches of that road. There was one just before m4 degrades to n4 this morning.

    Would a camera have prevented the accident?


  • #34
    redcup342
    Registered Users Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭redcup342


    RHJ wrote: »
    Another idea that should happen in my opinion is to encourage more people to have dash cams and helmet cams and set up a website where people could upload footage of law-breaking or reckless behaviour on the road and then have that footage reviewed by the Garda.

    I think the above would require a change in the law so make footage from dash and helmet cams legally admissible in court or to issue a fine.

    Can't do that, would be easy to delete the prior minutes to change how the situation looks.
    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    Lol I am hoping you are trolling as most of the times the average speed on the M50 is around walking speed :pac:

    Not in the slightest, the jams are caused by people speeding, good few places in Holland I can think of where an Average speed camera drastically improved the flow of traffic.


  • #35
    RHJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 925 ✭✭✭RHJ


    redcup342 wrote: »
    Can't do that, would be easy to delete the prior minutes to change how the situation looks.

    You could always require that videos are of a certain length, for example, require people to show the previous 5 minutes and 5 minutes after the reported incident.


  • #36
    robtri
    Registered Users Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭robtri


    speed cameras are old tech... and dont work

    need GPS speed limiters fitted to cars.. that will sort it out


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  • #37
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Lord Nikon wrote: »
    Would a camera have prevented the accident?

    I don't know why it happened. I just know someone hit something hard enough to flatten the engine bay on their car.


  • #38
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,283 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    border counties, everywhere, literally hundreds in cavan, monaghan and donegal. Would save some lives by either forcing a massive culture change into slowing down or banning those determined to live up to the rallying image.


  • #39
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    ExoPolitic wrote: »
    I'd like to see them at the entrance to all towns and villages. That will teach the idiot in front of me doing 70kph in a 100kph zone, who then continues in a 50kph zone doing 70kph...

    Yeah, and instead of taking a picture of the car, it should launch a missile at it.


  • #40
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,861 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    redcup342 wrote: »
    Not in the slightest, the jams are caused by people speeding, good few places in Holland I can think of where an Average speed camera drastically improved the flow of traffic.

    I think it's more the imbeciles that can't merge/poor lane discipline/swerve across 3 lanes to get to their exit/aggressively bull into lanes/general selfish gobsh*tes stuck on their phones oblivious to their surroundings that cause a lot of the daily accordion traffic fun on the M50

    The main instance I really see inappropriate speed involved is where drivers shoot up the aux lanes to cut out onto the motorway at the very last second


  • #41
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    fancy pigeon wrote: »
    The main instance I really see inappropriate speed involved is where drivers shoot up the aux lanes to cut out onto the motorway at the very last second

    That's the proper way to use merging lanes. If everyone did that, things would flow better.


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  • #42
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,861 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    McGaggs wrote: »
    That's the proper way to use merging lanes. If everyone did that, things would flow better.

    Whoops, I should have been clearer. I guess what I said would fall into the category of imbeciles not merging correctly where they need to speed up which isn't strictly what I'm referring to here

    Here's an example I see regularly:

    We start at the Ballymun exit, going south. Usually plenty of chances to merge safely but no: they need to gain the extra few car lengths and seconds. We then get to here (google maps on the other side of the motorway :o), where most people would cut out; usually causing the car already in the lane to jam on (shoulds, woulds and coulds generally do not apply as it regularly happens)


  • #43
    Sammy_Jankis
    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭Sammy_Jankis


    fancy pigeon wrote: »

    The main instance I really see inappropriate speed involved is where drivers shoot up the aux lanes to cut out onto the motorway at the very last second

    Junction 9 m50 north and south bound is the worst for this crap. Should implement bollards for the last 300m or so as there is plenty of notice to get into the correct lane.


  • #44
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    McGaggs wrote: »
    That's the proper way to use merging lanes. If everyone did that, things would flow better.

    No it isn't.

    If you are over taking on the left, you are going faster than the traffic, you are "attempting" to merge into.


  • #45
    redcup342
    Registered Users Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭redcup342


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    No it isn't.

    If you are over taking on the left, you are going faster than the traffic, you are "attempting" to merge into.

    Eh nah man, that's how you use a merging lane, if you are merging at the beginning of the lane you are wasting all the road ahead of you.

    You are supposed to go all the way to the end and merge one for one (like a zipper)

    :pac:

    1456146_080316-wtvd-zipper-merge-graphic-img.jpg?w=1280&r=16:9


  • #46
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,861 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    Sammy_Jankis wrote: »
    Junction 9 m50 north and south bound is the worst for this crap. Should implement bollards for the last 300m or so as there is plenty of notice to get into the correct lane.

    Say like here?

    Imagine the fun there would be if these weren't here! :eek::P


  • #47
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Cyclepath wrote: »
    You should move to China; I think you'd like their surveillance methods!
    https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/china-surveillance/552203/

    If you're not doing anything wrong then it's irrelevant.


  • #48
    usernamegoes
    Registered Users Posts: 901 ✭✭✭usernamegoes


    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    If you're not doing anything wrong then it's irrelevant.

    That old chestnut. Should we put a camera in everyone's house just in case?


  • #49
    Crock Rock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Crock Rock


    V8 Interceptor wrote: »
    What are you doing cycling on that stretch of road you nutter? If anything the limit should be increased there.

    Get off the damn road. You're a hindrance!


    How am I a nutter? It's a R-Road.


    Can you not overtake me when it's safe and legal to do so?


  • #50
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    Crock Rock wrote: »
    How am I a nutter? It's a R-Road. Can you not overtake me when it's safe and legal to do so?

    I can and I do but there are certain roads bicycles shouldn't be on, at least not in rush hour(s). You can cause half mile tailbacks because of your insistence on cladding up in lycra because its your "right" to do so. Get the fukking Bus, drive or get a lift and stop being so selfish. You can act the eejit at the weekends on quieter roads.


  • #51
    Crock Rock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Crock Rock


    V8 Interceptor wrote: »
    I can and I do but there are certain roads bicycles shouldn't be on, at least not in rush hour(s). You can cause half mile tailbacks because of your insistence on cladding up in lycra because its your "right" to do so. Get the fukking Bus, drive or get a lift and stop being so selfish. You can act the eejit at the weekends on quieter roads.


    You do realise that some of us work on weekends?
    Also, there'd be much less traffic at rush hour if more of us "lycra cladders" took to the road at rush hour.


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  • #52
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,669 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    None of the above.


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