@mickmc: Ha ha so true

@Dub_Right: You’ll be surprised, today it’s “Operation Umberella”.

@Dub_Right: well thought the same thing but seems where we were bloody wrong……got pulled over outside Naas doing 131 in a 120 zone 20 mins ago. There goes the weekend i guess!

@#knowingitall: Guess i dont know it all after all!

@Dub_Right: If you are over the speed limit you will not see them untill it’s to late That’s the idea

@#knowingitall: Oopps, some bitter medicine to take for your heavy right foot…

@Dub_Right: seen them today in the lashing of rain

@mickmc: don’t be severe , don’t you know they are made of sugar and if wet they would melt like in a little blue mound on the side of the road … with the ” hair dryer” lying on the floor and that be so so very sad

@#knowingitall: that is real unlucky , didn’t know they made weather proof ones .
And more so pissed off ones when wet !
That road by the way is one of their haunts . Careful next time

@John003: m50 flyover at blanch is 30kph…. Complete farce.

@John003: that Lucan one is a pain as is the stretch from airport to swords. Always well manned from behind a pole.

@Dub_Right: i think Paul Murphy was being witty.

@Dub_Right: he pulled it out of his areas. Like the bankers and the guards. Oh and the university lecturers and the state funded charity ceo’s.
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@Greg Blake: It’s the same old joke time and time again on anything Garda related, loses it humour after the 500th time..

@Dub_Right: I’m sure youre right, but I think after much more than 500 times, the issuing of false figures by state bodies (not particularly a Garda issue) has also lost its humour.

@Alan Madden: I know right is so weird if I do that my car dies out and roll backwards I try one night when there was no traffic to do that part you come from M3 at 100 then drop to 80 then sudden 30 and my car died rolled backward . It was 3 am no one on the road hence I could do that experiment . But a 50 from your 80 is oke

@Alan Scott: Some insurance companies will let you fit a “Black box” speed/time tracker to your car in exchange for a reduction in the cost of the premium…

@Eugene Tyson: 131km an hour on any road is bordering on criminality-if your child was seriously injured or killed as a result of that type of behaviour you might have a different outlook.

@Bennythekid: I actually did know someone who died in a car crash, in America, by a drunk driver. I’m not ignorant to the fact that speed kills. I disagree with speed vans though and speed guns. It does nothing to slow down a driver on the day. People slow down going past the speed points and speed back up again afterwards. Big whoop – there’s a point in their day they slow down for a minute while they all silently whiz past doing the speed limits.

Where is the justice in fining people for driving fast, when they are allowed to continue on their journey without even blinking as they past the speed vans/speed guns on the roads? It’s not really making roads safer, is it?

@Eugene Tyson: It’s the knowledge that a speed check could be anywhere at any time that would prevent people from indiscriminate speeding..

That and the introduction of average speed cameras on major roads, which in 2017 Ireland doesn’t even have one.. Well apart from the port tunnel, though not sure it’s fully active/legal yet…

@Bennythekid: 130kph is the standard limit on many European major motorway sections. But they break it back down sensibly according to needs, reducing to 120, 100, 80 and 50 along with having many variable limit zones. We need a constant review of limits, so people dont get into a habit of booting along certain sections of road they think they know, familiarity breeds contempt.

@Greg Blake: yes but we don’t have autobahn like Germany-and independent studies have shown that speed vans actually reduce accidents by up to 19%.

@Eugene Tyson: What’s your solution to people speeding and driving dangerously?

@Gerry McCarthy: Couldnt cars be fitted with gps trackers like in your phone. And your location would be known for what road youre on. The speed limit could be picked up. And like where your car beeps for the seatbelt and handbrake etc. It could beep when speeding. Or approaching dangerous bend or accidemt blackspots.

It will never be done because a) the garda make too much money from fines and b) people dont want to live in a big brother state.

However, its one possible way we fould actually save lives rather than fining someone after they have already been speeding and continued on speeding that day and more.

@Eugene Tyson: this “making money” lark is so much bs. Do you think they get commission or something ?! Fines go to the central coffers. There is no incentive for gardai to issue fines. However a road death costs the state (that’s you and me) nearly 1million Euro.

@Paul: I never once said they get paid a commission for each fine – that’s not what I said at all. I said the money from the fine is a money making scheme. And it is, the fines go into the coffers that pay the wages of the government employees. That is all.

Yes a road death costs a lot of money – and I empathise with anyone who has lost someone in a road death – as said before I am one of those people. It’s deeply upsetting and costs a lot.

I still maintain that speed guns/vans don’t resolve the issue. As said before, you can slow down on approach and speed off on exit.

Of the 134,739 on the roads only 226 were speeding – which is 0.16% – it’s very low. Which suggests to me that what is happening is people are slowing for that moment in time where there is a vehicle or garda with a speed gun.

Hardly solving the issue is it? As I maintain that people warn other motorists as well, by flashing lights, so people slow down way before reaching the speed point anyway.

What’s stopping them maintaining a fast speed after the check point? Nothing!

@Dub_Right: Great idea I think it’s aimed at young and inexperienced drivers only not certain ?

@Eugene Tyson: you stated “the Garda make too much money from fines”. That is a lie. They don’t make any money. If every Garda in the country decided not to issue tickets for a month they’d still be paid the same amount. The fines go to central coffers for government wages? True but not all of it, they also pay for EVERY other government service.

You say speed vans/guns don’t work, it’s the only equipment available at the moment. Call a spade a spade, no driver should speed, it’s the drivers fault and only the drivers and in a perfect world no fines would need to be issued. But this is the real world.

@Gerry McCarthy: Do they have speed awareness courses in Ireland thats would be a start . I got caught doing 85mph (136.79kph) on the M11 last summer just outside London in a friends car . I normally never speed top speed is not my thing . I was caught by a police motorcyclist standing on the side of the road (dangerous spot to stop ) and recieved the summons within a week . I was given the option of a speed awareness course which i took . It was four hours of classroom stuff a bit boring but i did learn some interesting stuff . No points on my license for doing the course and as long as i dont get caught within the next three years i can do the course again if caught speeding .

@Alan Scott: Maybe it’s time there are sensible speed limits. The N3 used to have a speed limit of 100kph until the M3 was built. Then the limit on the N3 was reduced to 80kph in order to encourage people to use the M3. There is a long stretch of the M50 where the speed limit is 100kph. It’s a motorway for God’s sake.

@Cindy Crawford: agree that some roads need to be look at. The motorways are designated as such due to their construction not because of speed. Traffic congestion on the M50 is far to high to allow 120

@Eugene Tyson: no sure the criminals are off the weekend isn’t the Dáil and the banks closed on weekends ?

@Padraig Corcoran: that’s innacurate! it was 1 billion 4 thousand and 42!

@iMoan Brutal: Maybe that should be rounded up to the next billion?