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UCD Parking

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    #62
    Paul Tergat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,765 ✭✭✭✭Paul Tergat


    p_larkin99 wrote: »
    Just on this. I PM'd Raphael and he said it was ok for to to just chuck up a follow up post to say I've 1 space in Roebuck Hill for rent for the year. It's underground secure parking (you'll get a buzzer for it). If anyone is actually interested chuck me a PM so we dont clog up this thread.

    Just bumping this as the space has become available again if anyone is struggling to get parking.


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    #63
    ironclaw
    Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    p_larkin99 wrote: »
    Just bumping this as the space has become available again if anyone is struggling to get parking.

    I'll send you a PM now.


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    #64
    B_Fanatic
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭B_Fanatic


    Hate to revive an old topic but I don't think this question justifies its own topic. With regards to parking for residences (Belgrove in particular), can any residence just drive in? I didn't inquire at the start of the year because I'm only doing my driving test Tuesday (Probably fail but I'm curious anyway) and am wondering:
    • Can I simply drive into residential parking and lay down in any of the parking spaces?
    • Have I to inform anyone?
    • If there are no parking spaces available within the residential complex can I park in the bigger car park outside for free?

    Thanks in advance.


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    #65
    geetar
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭geetar


    B_Fanatic wrote: »
    Hate to revive an old topic but I don't think this question justifies its own topic. With regards to parking for residences (Belgrove in particular), can any residence just drive in? I didn't inquire at the start of the year because I'm only doing my driving test Tuesday (Probably fail but I'm curious anyway) and am wondering:
    • Can I simply drive into residential parking and lay down in any of the parking spaces?
    • Have I to inform anyone?
    • If there are no parking spaces available within the residential complex can I park in the bigger car park outside for free?

    Thanks in advance.

    pretty sure youll need some sort of pass in the window otherwise youll get clamped


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    #66
    B_Fanatic
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭B_Fanatic


    geetar wrote: »
    pretty sure youll need some sort of pass in the window otherwise youll get clamped

    Darn. Do you know anything about my last question? People seem to mention free parking outside the residences?


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    #67
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    The way I see it if I get in early enough I get a space.

    If you don't get in early enough and dont get a space well tough luck and stop moaning about it.


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    #68
    AdamD
    Registered Users Posts: 12,661 ✭✭✭✭AdamD


    The place badly needs a multi-storey car park. The public transport system to get to ucd is awful


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    #69
    B_Fanatic
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭B_Fanatic


    Lol, are people replying to the OP? My fault I guess.


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    #70
    gubbie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    AdamD wrote: »
    The place badly needs a multi-storey car park. The public transport system to get to ucd is awful

    Ya that's what they need. To take hundreds of thousands of euro away from the library and other education needs and plough it into an unnecessary multistory car park because some people are too lazy to cycle.

    *By the way I was being sarcastic


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    #71
    AdamD
    Registered Users Posts: 12,661 ✭✭✭✭AdamD


    Because everyone lives within cycling distance of UCD....


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    #72
    stop
    Registered Users Posts: 889 ✭✭✭stop


    AdamD wrote: »
    The place badly needs a multi-storey car park. The public transport system to get to ucd is awful
    Its getting one, but there will be no net increase in the number of spaces, as per Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council & NTA planning restrictions.

    What UCD needs is people to get on the bus/bike charge everyone for parking. Dublin Bus also need to improve bus connections to the areas directly west of UCD, the 17 is unreliable.


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    #73
    HavingCrack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    AdamD wrote: »
    The public transport system to get to ucd is awful

    No it isn't. It has the 46a, 145, 39a, 84 etc and 2 and 3. to the front gate and the 11 and 11b to the rear. There's also Bus Eireann and AirCoach for logner distance commuters. The DART isn't unbelievably far away either, certainly walkable. To be honest it's pretty good.


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    #74
    HavingCrack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    stop wrote: »
    Dublin Bus also need to improve bus connections to the areas directly west of UCD, the 17 is unreliable.

    Dublin Bus are fairly poor for west-east routes in south Dublin full stop, it isn't a UCD specific thing. The only one that I can think of apart from the 17 is the 75 from Dun Laoghaire to Tallaght.


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    #75
    AdamD
    Registered Users Posts: 12,661 ✭✭✭✭AdamD


    The 17 is pretty unreliable :/


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    #76
    graduate
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭graduate


    There is still parking today. :)


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    #77
    badtinegirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭badtinegirl


    Got parking today no worries. If only
    it could be like that evey day. Im not missing
    driving really slow behind people walking in the car parks
    hoping they are leaving.


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    #78
    EmacB
    Registered Users Posts: 308 ✭✭EmacB


    For some reason they also refuse to use new busses on the 17 route :confused:


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    #79
    george507
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭george507


    Hope the car park in Blackrock can be solved as well


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    #80
    gubbie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    AdamD wrote: »
    Because everyone lives within cycling distance of UCD....

    So rather then dealing with the issue of those who live close to UCD and are easily within cycling distance you want to completely ignore the point by bringing up the argument "Not everyone can cycle". Well duh. No one's expecting people to cycle from Wicklow but an argument was used in one of the first posts in this thread that "I live 4 miles from UCD with bad bus connections" = I must have a car parking space. That's who should be cycling.


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    #81
    AdamD
    Registered Users Posts: 12,661 ✭✭✭✭AdamD


    Cycle in the wind/rain/snow...rather not. Being serious btw.


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    #82
    ironclaw
    Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    AdamD wrote: »
    The place badly needs a multi-storey car park.

    Pretty sure its on this thread somewhere, but engineering wise, the space required for such a venture would yield a minimal increase in car park spaces. I'd be against it for reasons of economic and for the absolute certainty they would charge for it use. People can barely park in unmarked spaces, imagine the carnage in a tight multistory car park?

    Thats another thing, if you can't park, get out. Seriously. The standard of driving, especially in the gravel car park near Quinn is ridiculous. We lose 10 to 20 spaces each day by people leaving about 5 ft between cars or parking a the weirdest angles imaginable.


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