Getting around Galway

is that the best you can come up with?

No you haven't

Thank you for that very informative response. Let me take this step by step.

Your response to someone documenting dangerously illegal driving was the following:

You didn't choose a neutral factual description like "get attacked" but instead chose the loaded phrase "get what's coming to him", making it clear that you think the guy on the red bike deserved to get beaten up and that, if the guy recording outrageous breaches of speed limits gets beaten up, that will be deserved too.

Just to be clear, all this guy is doing is documenting speeding on our roads to highlight the danger other road users are being placed in, he's not confronting anyone, or anything like that. Yet you somehow think what he is doing is so unacceptable that you believe he deserves to be beaten up for it. And then you have the balls to follow that up with the statement:

The hypocrisy is just astounding.

If I'm incorrect in anything, please point it out. All I've done is taken what you have written at face value.

lolz , just wow.....

someone "merely" pointing out law breaking is doing so without legal authority and is a form of vigilantism as well albeit on the lighter side. Regardless on what people think good or bad, This is the role for gardai and the go safe cameras and not for members of the public. If i recall from a previous post by their own admission they were asked to stop that before when a guard came by.

Those that attempt these activities can put themselves at risk as the can antagonize the wrong person or even a "good" person on a bad day. Not everyone is happy when they are recorded in public place regardless if law abiding or not. This person obviously has the time and some money where they could put into the proper channels and appropriate forum.

Bottom line, camera and a twitter handle to state the obvious is like shooting fish in a barrel and additionally put out their own narratives. as said anyone can do that for any form of breaking rules of a road, you just need to be in a the place that it is rife. Not hard to do..... problem here is enforcing existing legislation.

if you want to engage on my previous post, happy to take a PM.

Fully aware gardai will seek CCTV and dashcam footage where a crime is committed. However they would not advocate and discourage for someone to actively pursue a caped crusade against a specific cohort that does not line up with their agenda. Especially where they are posting on a public platform intentionally for views...

Is there legal provision for this, or is it just how you think things could or should be?

That's the way it already works right now, and the new legislation is just about process of receiving a statement online rather instead of the current requirement for a signed piece of paper, so the way you describe it is how it should continue to work.

Right now if you report something you are asked if you are willing to go to court. If you say you aren't then the Gardai will still issue a FCN. If the driver disputes it then either the Gardai drop it or they come back to you and ask you if that's still your position. The few times I've done it I've said I am willing to go to court but I've never actually had to. Each time the driver has accepted the FCN.

All that should change with the online portal is that you can submit a report at home in a few minutes at your own convenience, instead of having to make an appointment and then spend 30-45 minutes watching a guard write everything out longhand, and knowing that he will have to type it into the Pulse system afterwards. The portal is going to make it much more convenient for people to submit reports, and it's also going to allow the Gardai to process them in a fraction of the time they currently need to spend on them, so I'd say it's going to result in a huge uptick in reports.

The line preceding that in the article is critical to understanding the part you quoted. "A common misconception is that a member of An Garda Síochána can provide an unsolicited, unverified digital image in court as evidence." I don't know that this really is a common misconception. I'd say it's widely understood that if it goes to court it's only going to stand if the complainant is there to give evidence. But we already have a system which encourages those who know they have committed the offence to choose to avoid going to court in exchange for a lower fine and fewer penalty points, so most people who submit footage will never have to go to court.

Conor Faughnan is a paid lobbyist for the motor industry so I'd take anything he has to say on this subject with a whole wheelbarrow full of salt. We already have the culture that he says you can't create. If I own a shop and I give the Gardai footage of a known person stealing from it then of course I can call them up and say "what are you doing with my case?". And if I'm the victim of a dangerous overtake while cycling or driving, and I provide footage to the Gardai, then I'm equally entitled to call them up and say "what are you doing with my case?". I have done this myself on more than one occasion. Now of course the Gardai can respond that they're not treating it as a priority, and then you have the option to go higher up the chain of command or to GSOC. It's telling too that Faughnan refers to them as 'road ra(n)ge incidents', trying to position it as two people losing their cool over something petty, when the reality is that most reports currently are by people who feel their safety or life has been put in danger directly, not just that they've happened to record someone up ahead of them going through a red light or some other infraction that didn't impact them personally.

This thing about doctored video has already been covered elsewhere on boards. These reporting systems have worked in other countries for years, including the UK, and that just hasn't been an issue. Having a lawyer argue it is doctored shouldn't be given any credibility unless they produce a qualified expert witness to testify that it has been doctored. Undoubtedly there will be some cases like that, the same as there are some civil cases where doctors on both sides give widely varying opinions on the injuries suffered by plaintiff, but how likely is it to be a common occurrence? When drivers are presented with a FCN for a €120 fine and three penalty points for dangerous overtaking how many are going to choose to spend a four figure sum engaging a solicitor, a barrister and an expert witness, risking five penalty points and a heftier fine. Most drivers will just say 'lesson learned' and take the FCN. Maybe some drivers will throw money at trying to get themselves acquitted, especially if they already have 9 points and are looking at an automatic ban. But even they will still hopefully have learnt a lesson and will modify their behaviour on the road having come so close to a ban.

This whole thing may indeed be a long time away, when you consider that Ireland still isn't ready to use traffic light cameras to enforce red light breaking, 50 years after they were first introduced in other countries, but the momentum does seem to be building so I think it's likely we'll see it sooner rather than later.

Oranmore has none.

Athenry has one per day in each direction.

largely down to lack of enforcement, RPU is 659 at present where as in 2009 it was 1,046

those speed limit were only just recently changed, if i recall in end of August/September. so that would not account for the big drop in these stats as it was from January to September.

Previous situation was ridiculous, you had people coming up to the curve breaking hard, check for speed van then back as you were. would be happy enough if was just moved 70.

If you feel unsafe in the overtaking lane then do not use it. Afterall it is what you say... its an overtaking lane.

The whole thing was a shít-show.

No extra public transport.

Nothing like enough crowd control anywhere: I was on High St I a very packed crowd and a very drunk group insisted on pushing thru to get up the street, even though we all knew they wouldn't get anywhere. Luckily everyone kept the head and no one fell. But it could easily have got ugly.

It's called the Canal WALK.

Would've thought the name made things obvious.

2 steps forward - 1 step back.

If they use the excuse that they are installed to slow down people cycling who are approaching the ZEBRA crossing on the 30kmph Presentation Road ( City Centre 30km zone ) - where is the evidence that its needed and why it was not needed prior to the surface upgrade.

Eamon looking after his voter base of pensioners.

The NTA has informed [O Cuiv] that Local Link Galway will now examine possible extra stops.

Deputy Ó Cúiv says while it’s not the perfect solution

Indeed not Eamon - the "perfect solution" would be to have the bus stop outside everyone's house who needs it. And why not?

Because, Eamon, you might as well through the timetable out the feckin window if you're going to engage in that crap. Good luck to any of those pensioners trying to make a doctor's appointment if they're going to use the new-look "Stop-Everywhere" local link.

Many Local Link services are door to door.