GMIT students need to pay for parking. Blocking Renmore roads :(

galwaycyclist

cant26 wrote: »

Of course I should be allowed bring my car to college, the same way other people bring their cars to work.

No you shouldnt and neither should they at least not for free. At a minimum private companies in city locations should be restricted in providing staff parking or charged for doing so.

Why should the state be investing in roads infrastructure if private employers are allowed to undermine that investment by generating unecessary traffic?

ben.schlomo

galwaycyclist wrote: »

No you shouldnt and neither should they at least not for free. At a minimum private companies in city locations should be restricted in providing staff parking or charged for doing so.

Why should the state be investing in roads infrastructure if private employers are allowed to undermine that investment by generating unecessary traffic?

How is it unnecessary, whats the current viable alternative for the vast majority in this country?

snubbleste

Just noticed this letter from a resident published in the Tribune May 2009

Ticketing cars in the estates
The City Council must really be stuck for money alright. They are now sending out the poor traffic wardens to the estates on the outskirts – not, mind you, to help improve the appalling traffic congestion – but to put €60 on-the-spot fines on any cars parked outside the homes of long-suffering householders who are found without current road tax discs.
They were spotted the other day in one of the city's worst traffic black-spots, Murrough Avenue, Renmore – a traffic nightmare created by the City Council itself – going around furtively putting tickets on cars which cannot be used most of the time because residents are virtually prisoners in their own homes.

Talk about adding insult to injury. What a mean-spirited and underhanded approach to revenue generation? Who is making these decisions? Who is directing these people? The Council is really scraping the bottom of the barrell this time and should call this off. It is doing nothing for the already-tarnished image of the Council.
There was a time when people were safe and secure in their own homes but no longer I'm afraid. Not alone does the Council condemn residents to the daily hazards of appalling traffic mismanagement, as in the case of Murrough Avenue, but it adds further insult to injury by ordering its wardens to target those self-same residents in an obvious attempt to boost its dwindling revenue coffers.
Is it any wonder people are losing faith in the democratic system? This practice must be bordering on the unconstitutional, affecting as it does the rights to privacy and the inviolability of the dwellinghouse. Maybe the Council are trying to create a clearway along Murrough Avenue to allow them to use it as a bus route – a proposal put forward recently by a local Councillor. What a daft idea? But could one expect any better considering what has gone on before? I don't think so.

The fastest (and most unnecessary) piece of work I ever saw the Council doing was to paint double yellow lines along both sides of Lurgan Park recently to eliminate parking by GMIT. Those cars were causing no problem whatever. There was no need for any parking restrictions there. Due to a planning error on the part of the City Council itself, Lurgan Park was constructed so wide – virtually treble the width of Murrough Avenue – that one could readily land a Jumbo Jet on it with cars parked on either side. Those yellow lines, what another daft idea? What a waste of public money? It is long past time the Council stopped their petty bickering and started acting as a proper local authority or else get out and let others do the job before the city grinds to a halt.

biko

Ok now it's just gone to general traffic woes discussion.