Gardaí announce locations for nine new static speed cameras throughout Ireland

Are these to be average speed or just standard cameras?

Glenmore to Luffany is in Kilkenny, not Waterford, unless there are others I don't know about?

• Wicklow - R772, Arklow Road, Aske, north of Gorey

I'm local to this one and happy to see they are doing something with this road. It attracts boy racers at night and there's been a lot of bad accidents on this road over the years. The road badly needs to be re-lined with new cat eyes at the Scarnagh cross roads. It's difficult to navigate this stretch of road at night.

surely most drivers these days are somewhat savvy and use the likes of Waze which will simply warn them well in advance they are approaching a speed camera and they simply slow down till they pass it. Seems like a waste of €2.4 million to me.

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Wasn't there mention somewhere that the cameras could theoretically also use AI to detect phone usage, or was the specifically for the red light cameras?

Edit: it is in fact for the 9 static speed cameras (for now)

Because these guys aren't the smartest tools in the shed and if they know there is a speed camera on a road they will avoid it.

They’re most likely ultra aware of where speed cameras are and certainly won’t be caught by a static camera.

I remember the original static camera deployment. They just gave up on them in the late 00s for some reason. Some had become basically pointless - the one on the old N2 had a fraction of its old traffic - and some needed to be altered due to the road massively changing - the two on the M50 and the one on the N4 - but they all just went.

Isn't that the idea, to get people to slow down? We just need way more of them. Average speed ones too.

The goal of speed cameras is not to make money, it's to make people slow down and therefore reduce accidents.

If people are getting notified of cameras and then slow down, mission accomplished that's the whole point of the cameras in the first place!

Static speed cameras are neither. It is a lazy way to make governments and safety authorities look like they are doing something about road safety.

Or repaint road markings. May roads they are totally absent/indecernable from years of wear

Yes. Speed is an exacerbating factor in every road incident. It turns near misses into fatalities, and that's why it's being policed.

Naturally you get the guys (it's always males) who think they're so much better at driving than anyone else and thus see this as an unacceptable imposition on their rights, but those guys are, frankly, idiots, and they're not even representative of the people who are into cars.

I know a few people who are really into the car scene here, one of whom has a pretty solid rallying career behind him, titles included. The one thing that they never did was speed on the public road. In motorsport circles, speeding and dicking around is the mark of the knobend.

the well signposted average speed cameras on the M7 near Birdhill still get multiple drivers every day, not all from NI who lash through at 130 and more

When will the government get the finger out and just get going with installing average speed cameras nationwide, instead of the tiny piecemeal fashion as is the case now? There's all this talk about reducing road deaths and speeding but not a huge amount being done about it. The discussions about reducing speed limits is absolutely ridiculous as those who decide to speed will continue to speed as they know that the chances of being caught are very slim, whereas enforcing the current laws is what is really required.