Gatso van in Maynooth

Wing Walker

Please be aware that there's a Gatsovan (07.11.06) pointing towards the M4 as you're coming into Maynooth just past the turnoff for Rathcoffey and on the opposite side to the Esso station.

It's a white one and it's parked up on the path.

Victor McDade

good man, im gonna be on that road myself in less than an hour. i owe you a pint

mloc123

I was only saying to somebody last week that I'm suprised they never stuck one on that road.

HelterSkelter

Great work on road safety yet again. Was just looking at the 2004 Road Collision Facts report (2004 is latest report available) from the NRA and 0.8% of fatal or injury collisions occured on motorways. 70% of all collisions occur on rural roads yet they consistantly target safe motorways and dual carriageways with their speed traps :-/

Have a look at the attached tables:

Seth Brundle

I think the OPs points was that it wasn't on the motorway but on the busy urban road into Maynooth

ciarsd

mloc123 wrote:

I was only saying to somebody last week that I'm suprised they never stuck one on that road.

It is there on and off every couple of months, nearly in the same location all the time - up on the foot-path & the cycle-path opposite Carton Court estate and Esso

Wing Walker

To be fair, there are cars that boot up and down that stretch of road. It's not a bad location. However, I reckon that it's positioned to catch you just as you enter the 50 zone from the 60 zone. I could be wrong.

Shouldn't they have it a little further down where it would really get those who are speeding and not simply those still decelerating from 60 to 50 gradually?

Maybe that's too simplistic a view?

ciarsd

Wing Walker wrote:

To be fair, there are cars that boot up and down that stretch of road. It's not a bad location. However, I reckon that it's positioned to catch you just as you enter the 50 zone from the 60 zone. I could be wrong.

Shouldn't they have it a little further down where it would really get those who are speeding and not simply those still decelerating from 60 to 50 gradually?

Maybe that's too simplistic a view?

valid point, agree with you entirely.

Victor

Wing Walker wrote:

Shouldn't they have it a little further down where it would really get those who are speeding and not simply those still decelerating from 60 to 50 gradually?

How far do you need to achieve this? How about allowing people grace on say stop lines. Say and extra 10m?

Lord Nikon

I'm surprised they haven't stuck one outside the Straffan Lodge Hotel yet. People be bombing it down the road from Straffan/Clane direction, especially in the morning. I'm a fecker for it.

littlejukka

Victor wrote:

How far do you need to achieve this? How about allowing people grace on say stop lines. Say and extra 10m?

does boards have a rep system?

burner

If a Gatso van or speed detection Camera takes a picture of your vehicle from the front, as well as recording/imaging your registration plate, will it show the entire front of the car like the windscreen in order to identify the drivers?

Thanks

Guy:Incognito

HelterSkelter wrote:

Great work on road safety yet again. Was just looking at the 2004 Road Collision Facts report (2004 is latest report available) from the NRA and 0.8% of fatal or injury collisions occured on motorways. 70% of all collisions occur on rural roads yet they consistantly target safe motorways and dual carriageways with their speed traps :-/

Have a look at the attached tables:

Yeah cos whats needed to reduce accidents is to put a speed camera around a blind bend on a country road, that wont shock anyone into veering into a ditch.

r3nu4l

Wing Walker wrote:

Please be aware that there's a Gatsovan (07.11.06) pointing towards the M4 as you're coming into Maynooth just past the turnoff for Rathcoffey and on the opposite side to the Esso station.

It's a white one and it's parked up on the path.

Is this in the 60kph or 50 kph zone? Been a few months since I drove in Maynooth (lived there two and a half years ago, go back to the university regularly). Is it in the small lay-by just before the Esso and new Meadowbrook/Rathcoffey turn-off...as in just before the Lidl turn on the right)?

Kashkai

burner wrote:

If a Gatso van or speed detection Camera takes a picture of your vehicle from the front, as well as recording/imaging your registration plate, will it show the entire front of the car like the windscreen in order to identify the drivers?

Thanks

No, the Gatso just takes a picture of the car's reg plate and immediate surrounding area.

This Gatso van has been doing the rounds around north Kildare. It was parked on the back road into Prosperous a couple of months ago. Pity it isn't positioned out on the back roads proper where the boy racers piss around at well over the speed limit. Suppose its easier to catch drivers a few kph over the limit in towns than catching the real lunatics who cause serious crashes.

r3nu4l

Prosperous Dave wrote:

Pity it isn't positioned out on the back roads proper where the boy racers piss around at well over the speed limit.

Like the Polish registered car that passed me on the backroads going from RathCoffey to Maynooth at five past two in the morning. I was doing 100kmh and the little Fiesta overtook me as if I was standing still. I was sure I'd see them overturned on the road ahead of me with the way the car was bounding on the uneven surface!