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Traffic Wardens

  • 15-10-2009 9:37am
    #1
    Cushla
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭


    Read a piece in Tuesdays Clare people bout traffic wardens striking. Not sure why - something to do wi money anyway I presume. Does anyone know if they'll still be off Sat? Yey free parking hopefully..


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  • #2
    Teadrinker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭Teadrinker


    Cushla wrote: »
    Read a piece in Tuesdays Clare people bout traffic wardens striking. Not sure why - something to do wi money anyway I presume. Does anyone know if they'll still be off Sat? Yey free parking hopefully..

    You read the article but you don't know what it said? Can only hope you are staying well away from the bypass!


  • #3
    Cushla
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭Cushla


    It got boring....zzzz.
    I'm ok wi the bypass fortunatly :cool:


  • #4
    Teadrinker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭Teadrinker


    The traffic wardens want danger money because of verbal and physical assaults, including punching and biting, when handing out tickets to motorists in Ennis.


  • #5
    finbarrk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,470 ✭✭✭finbarrk


    Are they the same guys who clamped our car in the train station the day we went to Croke Park to support our U21 hurlers I wonder? There must have been at least 8 cars with clamps on that night. We had thought Sundays would have been ok.


  • #6
    Rujib1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 369 ✭✭Rujib1


    Could you class these as public servants. If yes, sack them.


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  • #7
    BLITZ_Molloy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭BLITZ_Molloy


    Next time I see a traffic warden I'm going to give them a hug. I'd hate to see them get any money.


  • #8
    maiden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭maiden


    OMG the weekend of the clare match we went to dub on the saturday (not going to match, girly night out!!), came home on the sunday. my friend had a ticket on her car for saturday and when we returned on the sunday she left her car at the station so she could go for a few drinks! Back on mon morn to collect car, and it was clamped!

    Poor thing didnt even have credit in her phone to ring clampers let alone the fine money. there was way more than 8 clamped when we were there!


  • #9
    emanresu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭emanresu


    finbarrk wrote: »
    Are they the same guys who clamped our car in the train station the day we went to Croke Park to support our U21 hurlers I wonder? There must have been at least 8 cars with clamps on that night. We had thought Sundays would have been ok.

    No, the Town Council traffic wardens are not in charge of the station car park.


  • #10
    Teadrinker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭Teadrinker


    finbarrk wrote: »
    Are they the same guys who clamped our car in the train station the day we went to Croke Park to support our U21 hurlers I wonder? There must have been at least 8 cars with clamps on that night. We had thought Sundays would have been ok.

    There are lots of signs which read '24 hour paid parking 7 days a week' - maybe they went up since the match? It's just a 2 Euro charge for the day.


  • #11
    Dr Kamikazi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 211 ✭✭Dr Kamikazi


    finbarrk wrote: »
    Are they the same guys who clamped our car in the train station the day we went to Croke Park to support our U21 hurlers I wonder? There must have been at least 8 cars with clamps on that night. We had thought Sundays would have been ok.

    The trains station would surely hire a private contractor to enforce parking rules there, I'd be surprised if the traffic wardens had anything to do with it.
    I need to get around town and use loading bays to deliver stuff. The amount of times that ignorant b*stards abandon their car in them, blocking them up completely to go and get themselves an ice cream makes my blood boil.
    If I see a car in a loading bay I usually park 1.5 mm from their bumper and hopefully block them in. And when I come back to see a big FAT ticket under their wiper, I nearly weep with joy.
    The thing is that the rules of the road are only sketchily enforced in this town and when it's school out, match, mass, dole day, wedding or, god help me, a funeral, all courtesy, manners and common sense goes out the window and people just wildly abandon their cars everywhere they please.
    If anything the traffic wardens are WAY to lenient, as soon as someone abandons their car they should come over and say "move, move, move, I don't care, move, I'm going to write a ticket in 5,4,3,2,1, there you go, move, move..."

    There should be backup from the Gardai, assault a traffic warden, get arrested, thrown in a nice cell to cool off, then court, VERY hefty fine and possibly jail.
    I personally wouldn't want their job, these guys are trying to achieve a balance between total enforcement of the rules and ignoring them altogether. Surely they get no thanks for it, but someone's gotta do it.
    I for one salute them on doing a difficult job in difficult circumstances.


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