Traffic Warden Jobs

D-A-V-E

Hows it going! My brother was trying to find information about getting work as a traffic warden in Limerick City but couldnt find anything on it, not even in the city council website. Does anyone know where to go to get this information?

Mayoegian

D-A-V-E wrote: »

Hows it going! My brother was trying to find information about getting work as a traffic warden in Limerick City but couldnt find anything on it, not even in the city council website. Does anyone know where to go to get this information?

Hi D-A-V-E! I hope youre well! This is the After hours forum, so you could ask over here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=10

Or in the Limerick forum!

Good luck to your brother-i hope he gets the job!:)

D-A-V-E

Thanks for the replies. Will ask on the Limerick forum.

TheZohanS

Moved to Limerick Forum

Kess73

From what I know they hire from a panel every few years. The panel is got in the same way as the ones in the county council and city council offices. They advertise in the local press and you turn up for aptitude tests in a group. Then the best of that lot go forward to a series of interviews. Then those deemed the best are put on a waiting list/panel.

Am pretty sure there is no new panels being done this year or next though as I sat for one for the LCC two years ago and made the shortlist and received a letter this year saying that the shortlist was being carried over as no new panels were being formed.


For further info your best bet is the traffic warden office at the top of Thomas Street.

TestTransmission

www.publicjobs.ie ?

TPMP

Hey,

Just wondering are there any traffic wardens on here? I have an interview coming up and would love a bit of interview advice/tips!

MarkR

I've wondered, do they get dogs abuse, or do people accept they have to do their job.

If you do get the job, I want you to patrol the right hand lane of William Street. Forever.

Treepole

TPMP wrote: »

Hey,

Just wondering are there any traffic wardens on here? I have an interview coming up and would love a bit of interview advice/tips!

The best thing you could do in an interview for that role is to just sit there with a big sulky head and engage with none of the interviewers. You'd be a shoo-in.

Mc Love

They've a job to do but some amount of drivers take the piss in this city.

zulutango

On-street parking is a waste of good city centre space. We could have wider footpaths, cycle lanes, bus lanes, landscaping, street art, etc. but instead our streets are linear car parks.

The Specialist

zulutango wrote: »

On-street parking is a waste of good city centre space. We could have wider footpaths, cycle lanes, bus lanes, landscaping, street art, etc. but instead our streets are linear car parks.

Yeah that's a great idea, lets put more nails in the coffin of the city centre by making it even less accessible by car.

zulutango

The Specialist wrote: »

Yeah that's a great idea, lets put more nails in the coffin of the city centre by making it even less accessible by car.

It's the most car-accessible city in the country! On-street parking is doing more damage to the city than help it. The idea that the retailers are benefitting more by having on-street parking than by having well-designed modern, people-friendly, attractive streets is laughable.

The Specialist

zulutango wrote: »

It's the most car-accessible city in the country! On-street parking is doing more damage to the city than help it. The idea that the retailers are benefitting more by having on-street parking than by having well-designed modern, people-friendly, attractive streets is laughable.

Is it laughable though? I thought the whole arguement a couple of years back was that the ease of out of town shopping centres with free parking was killing the city, particularly because of the lack of spaces and over zealous wardens?

Pedestrianisng Limerick city isn't going to do anything for shop footfall, it's just going to make it even more of a ghost town.

Parchment

I would be terrified to be a traffic warden, i can imagine they get so much abuse.

zulutango

The Specialist wrote: »

Is it laughable though? I thought the whole arguement a couple of years back was that the ease of out of town shopping centres with free parking was killing the city, particularly because of the lack of spaces and over zealous wardens?

It's a flawed and simplistic argument that ignores some significant factors. The main problem for retailers in the city centre is that they are depending on shoppers from out of town. The proportion of the population that is suburban, middle class and car-dependent is very high by the standards of any other European city, and these people are naturally inclined to shop in the out of town centres. Even if you levelled the playing field by applying parking charges in the likes of the Crescent they'd still go out there in droves because it's more easily accessible. As well as that we have an ugly city centre and it needs a hell of a lot of work before we're going to attract people to come in and shop, or to live in.

The Specialist wrote: »

Pedestrianisng Limerick city isn't going to do anything for shop footfall, it's just going to make it even more of a ghost town.

I wouldn't argue that the city should be pedestrianised, but I would argue that we should follow the countless successful examples throughout Europe and design our streets as attractive places for people first and foremost. It is widely recongised that over-facilitating cars in urban centres damages their vitality. If we see the streets as valuable civic spaces which have many potential uses rather than places where cars park or short cuts for cars to get from one place to another, then we will see huge economic and social benefits.

mgbgt1978

Treepole wrote: »

The best thing you could do in an interview for that role is to just sit there with a big sulky head and engage with none of the interviewers. You'd be a shoo-in.

And tell them you live with your mother (who doesn't drive), never,ever socialise and have absolutely no friends or associates. They love it when you can't possibly show any favouritism.

At least that's the way it seemed to be in years gone by.

Edit; just as an aside....in 2014 Limerick City Council brought in €550,500 in Parking fines. Even assuming these were all for €40 and paid on time this equates to 44 tickets per day for a 6-day week. Lets say there would be 3 wardens on duty of an average day. This means that each Warden issued 2 tickets per hour...Max. This figure is possibly much less as many tickets could be for in excess of €40 and some of the total raised may have been collected after late fees, court cases etc.

zulutango

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

ust as an aside....in 2014 Limerick City Council brought in €550,500 in Parking fines. Even assuming these were all for €40 and paid on time this equates to 44 tickets per day for a 6-day week. Lets say there would be 3 wardens on duty of an average day. This means that each Warden issued 2 tickets per hour...Max. This figure is possibly much less as many tickets could be for in excess of €40 and some of the total raised may have been collected after late fees, court cases etc.

I suppose from the Council's point of view the only thing that matters is that they take in half a million euros in revenue through fines. Do you know how much they take in from the sale of parking discs? The presence of wardens must drive that figure, because obviously if you didn't have wardens then people wouldn't feel the need to buy discs.

johnnyryan89

Mc Love wrote: »

They've a job to do but some amount of drivers take the piss in this city.

Couldn't agree more, Sunday's are an absolute disgrace in town.

jsd1004

johnnyryan89 wrote: »

Couldn't agree more, Sunday's are an absolute disgrace in town.

Parking stopping and driving on footpaths is an absolute disgrace as well. Especially around schools. In Spain if you mount a footpath you will get a 200 euro on the spot fine. If you are in the car they give you a good talking to along with the fine and if not they tow the car and you pay for that too.

James Bond Junior

I know two of them, used to play sport with one and the other is a friend of a friend. You couldn't meet two nicer fellas to be honest. I think they have an awful job, do their job they're pricks don't do it and people go mad over parking in town.

Tefral

I'd personally pay half thier weeks wages if they managed to keep both lanes of William Street clear.