NOTE: GARDA Website currently having difficulties with large amount of traffic!!
View Interactive Google Map at http://cdn.thejournal.ie/data/speed.html instead!
There was much talk on the airwaves this morning about a new website that shows you the locations of all speed cameras in Ireland. However… when I visited this morning, the site simply showed a “Service Unavailable” error. www.irishspeedtraps.com
I can’t to see this site and obviously either can anyone else! The site being down is most likely due to an unexpected level of traffic to the website.
A lot people see this site as a bad thing, but I personally think it will be a good thing. According to the Gardai, the locations of speed traps and cameras are chosen based on the number of accidents in that vicinity. So if that is true, it should make people slow down in these areas and hopefully as a knock on effect, reduce accidents too.
I’ll give a proper review of the site when it’s live again.
EDIT:
Just listening to the main guy behind the website on NewsTalk 106 right now and he is saying that the cameras are actually more focused on dual carraigeways and motorways, where in fact the accident rate is much lower…. more to come…
OH AND! Gardai have released the new list of Speed Camera locations –GARDA SPEED CAMERA LOCATIONS
#1 by thomas chambers at November 15th, 2010
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the most dangerous stretch of road that I know and it is from Ballindine to Miltown and there appears to have no camera on it. Why?
#2 by john at November 16th, 2010
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i thought i heard that england where scrapping there speed cameras because they decided that they dont reduce accidents, and with all the sat navs that you can just download the locations to and the fact that most people will only slow down for the camera and nothing else, it sounds like a waste of money and resources to me.
why not improve the roads, i mean like most accidents happen on small windy country roads.
whats the solution there or are they just going to ignore that
#3 by Tom Doyle at November 16th, 2010
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It’s just another money grabbing scheme – I heard that about the English too.
#4 by althinking at June 7th, 2011
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See those Garda gosafe cameras:
I wrote a free (yes FREE) app for android phones that warns you when you enter one of the 500+ GoSafe safety camera zones. It’s available free on the Android market: “Irish Safety Camera Locations” or at: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.althinking.safetycameraloc
My contribution to road safety
Al