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Speed enforcement zones

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  • 11-11-2010 1:06pm
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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,066 ✭✭✭✭


    Just came across this

    http://www.garda.ie/sez/Wicklow.aspx



    the Farrankelly Road is the one that goes from Charlesland to the N11

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    jobless
    Registered Users Posts: 2,183 ✭✭✭jobless


    so are these gonna be places with permanent cameras or just more of a garda presence?...


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    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,506 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    private van mounted cameras


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    Oldlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Oldlegs


    Had a look at the enforcement zones.

    If you take Greystones as the centre, they list

    Road from Killincarrig to Kilcoole
    New Road from Charlesland up to N11
    N11 from Kilpedar to Southern Cross
    Southern Cross
    Windgates back to Greystones

    Anywhere main access road they may have left out ?

    {BTW - These zones relate to the new mobile speed cameras being deployed by private operators}


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    Langerland
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭Langerland


    Hmmm....well Farrankelly is a lethal stretch of road...how many people have been killed on it by cars since it opened? Good initiative to save lives by the Gardai here!!!


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    Blandpebbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Blandpebbles


    People have been killed on Farrankelly Road? Never heard this, apart from the recent non vehicle related death.

    On the note of missing spots, as usual nothing on the main road in front of Donnybrook Fair, which is the worst deathtrap in Greystones between Speed Racers and people blocking the view coming out of Grattan Park.


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    matt-dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭matt-dublin


    Langerland wrote: »
    Hmmm....well Farrankelly is a lethal stretch of road...how many people have been killed on it by cars since it opened? Good initiative to save lives by the Gardai here!!!
    erm... none????

    im pretty sure the only death was a manslaughter????

    no vehicles involved???

    and its not a good initiative to save lives, its a capital building excercice, pay someone to collect money for us....

    Roads like the farrinakelly road aren't really that dangerous, the backroads with 80 & 100 KM limits that have terrible road conditions are the dangerous ones.

    Or roads like where the Tuam crash was the other night, people trying to overtake slow moving vehicles dangrously and drink drivers etc.


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    dr ro
    Registered Users Posts: 970 ✭✭✭dr ro


    Langerland wrote: »
    Hmmm....well Farrankelly is a lethal stretch of road...how many people have been killed on it by cars since it opened? Good initiative to save lives by the Gardai here!!!
    i don't think exclamation marks are good enough to signify sarcasm anymore. It's smiley faces etc these days. Sign of the times. The dumbening!


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    LEIN
    Registered Users Posts: 9,936 ✭✭✭LEIN


    dr ro wrote: »
    i don't think exclamation marks are good enough to signify sarcasm anymore. It's smiley faces etc these days. Sign of the times. The dumbening!

    lol it was truly missed alright.


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    The Bishop Basher
    Registered Users Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭The Bishop Basher


    From that website.....

    "
    An Garda Síochána, in conjunction with the National Roads Authority, have completed an extensive analysis of the collision history on the road network where speed was a contributory factor. Sections of road have been identified where a significant proportion of accidents occurred whereby, in the opinion of the investigating Garda, a safe speed was exceeded.
    Based on this analysis, a list of Speed Enforcement Zones has been developed with the aim of providing information to motorists in order to raise awareness of speeding in these zones. An Garda Síochána will utilize these zones in order to direct speed enforcement activity in a proportionate and targeted manner."

    Total bull****. This is just more of the easy pickings, shooting fish in a barrel, revenue generating approach to "saving lives" on our roads.


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    Langerland
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭Langerland


    dr ro wrote: »
    i don't think exclamation marks are good enough to signify sarcasm anymore. It's smiley faces etc these days. Sign of the times. The dumbening!

    Sincerest apologies peeps!! :) !!!!£$^%£$$"!$^&*((&% ;)


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    Welsh Wizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 452 ✭✭Welsh Wizard


    Number plate swapping parties..;)


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    #13
    NarkyBoots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭NarkyBoots


    Guys I think you have the wrong map. That map is for places where the gardai will be/are already out with their speed guns and we all know that the Farrankelly link road is one of these places.

    This map however:

    http://www.garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=6497

    is where the private cameras will be as they have taken collision data from the past 5 years and where speed was a factor in the collision a decision has been made whether to mount a camera or not.

    The vans are going to be very visible and no, I don't work for anyone involved in any of this - I'm just trying to rectify an error that seems to have been made.

    Thanks.


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    DK32
    Registered Users Posts: 779 ✭✭✭DK32


    Someone sent me a link to this today;
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=69031327&postcount=381

    Also,

    http://www.thejournal.ie/rush-to-check-speed-cameras-crashes-garda-website-2010-11/


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