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Garda Safety Camera Vans

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  • 09-07-2012 1:33pm
    #1
    stiffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭


    Hi all quick question,

    Can Garda Safety Camera Vans be in locations other than the areas specified on the Garda website?

    I was driving to work this morning and I'm pretty sure I passed one, It didn't look like the speed vans on the Garda website, with the camera logos on it. But it was empty on the side of the road with just two plain Garda Stickers on it (not a normal luminous Garda van) and ahead of it was a huge flashing sign saying slow down.

    I didn't notice it until I was pretty much beside it so I don't even know what speed I was doing.

    Would this be a Speed Van? I'm guessing it was, but according to the Garda.ie website the nearest Safety Camera location is pretty much two miles away on a different road..
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    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Garda Vans are called GATSO vans and can be anywhere they want.

    There's a thread on Speed Cameras / Vans here


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    stiffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭stiffy


    Thanks for the reply Antares.

    So after looking through the suggested thread chances are the Garda Van I seen this morning could have been a speed trap..


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    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    stiffy wrote: »
    Thanks for the reply Antares.

    So after looking through the suggested thread chances are the Garda Van I seen this morning could have been a speed trap..

    Could well have been.

    They've been tagging them lately with Garda Logos though. Was there on your van?


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    stiffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭stiffy


    Yeah it was just a plain white van, similar to a transit, with one Garda symbol on the side :( just hope I wasn't going over the limit but probably was! Guess I'll know in the next few days


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    pa990
    Registered Users Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭pa990


    Antares wrote: »
    Garda Vans are called GATSO vans and can be anywhere they want.

    There's a thread on Speed Cameras / Vans here

    They are actually called ROBOT vans

    All the gatso vans were decommissioned in 2008


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    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    pa990 wrote: »
    They are actually called ROBOT vans

    All the gatso vans were decommissioned in 2008

    Apparently they don't call those nut bars Marathons anymore either.

    Good job it still tastes the same. :rolleyes:


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    pa990
    Registered Users Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭pa990


    Antares wrote: »
    pa990 wrote: »
    They are actually called ROBOT vans

    All the gatso vans were decommissioned in 2008

    Apparently they don't call those nut bars Marathons anymore either.

    Good job it still tastes the same. :rolleyes:

    But the robot, looks, and performs differently.
    Different specs
    Different freq
    Different capabilities
    Different range
    Different beam divergence
    Different machine

    Snickers/marathon..
    Different wrapper

    It's like comparing nuts and speed cams... Completely different things


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    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    pa990 wrote: »
    But the robot, looks, and performs differently.
    Different specs
    Different freq
    Different capabilities
    Different range
    Different beam divergence
    Different machine

    Snickers/marathon..
    Different wrapper

    It's like comparing nuts and speed cams... Completely different things

    And is any of that really pertinent to the OP's query?

    Does the OP really care what the Specifications, Frequency, Capabilities, Range etc are?

    The consequence of being caught is the same.... You get points and a fine.


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    Oral Surgeon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,240 ✭✭✭Oral Surgeon


    Antares wrote: »
    And is any of that really pertinent to the OP's query?

    Does the OP really care what the Specifications, Frequency, Capabilities, Range etc are?

    The consequence of being caught is the same.... You get points and a fine.

    mmmmm snickers mmmmm


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    TheChizler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,455 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    I think it's interesting pa990!


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