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    #32
    MintyMagnum
    Registered Users Posts: 480 ✭✭MintyMagnum


    Can a car park in a loading bay if the purpose is for loading?
    Is there an official grace period the warden must give eg 5 or 10 mins (& would it apply to a loading bay)?
    Does the warden have to put an actual ticket on the car?


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    #33
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    sporina wrote: »
    kingtut wrote: »
    Wonder why the warden would say it's a loading bay if it isn't ? Normally these are very clearly marked. Perhaps he / she was trying to reach their daily quota lol

    it was NOT clearly marked - I proved so and hence I won the appeal

    Nice one! The council are dicks at the best of times!


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    #34
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    MintyMagnum wrote: »
    Can a car park in a loading bay if the purpose is for loading?
    Is there an official grace period the warden must give eg 5 or 10 mins (& would it apply to a loading bay)?
    Does the warden have to put an actual ticket on the car?

    Loading bays are for the use of commercially taxed vehicles only during normal hours.


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    #35
    kcb
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    Tin Foil Hat wrote: »
    Loading bays are for the use of commercially taxed vehicles only during normal hours.

    And outside of normal hours what is the story? I tend to stay away from them to be safe!


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    #36
    ofcork
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    AFAIK they don't have to put tickets on the cars now fill in the details on their handheld and fine in the post.


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    #37
    Tin Foil Hat
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    kcb wrote: »
    And outside of normal hours what is the story? I tend to stay away from them to be safe!

    They can be use as normal parking spaces, I think.


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    #38
    ofcork
    Registered Users Posts: 5,394 ✭✭✭ofcork


    On Saturday loading bays can be used as a disc parking space.


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    #39
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    sporina wrote: »
    you prob never got a fine as you are so particular about parking yourself so you would not be in the know i guess..

    No I got a fine once (parked in a taxi spot) so I'm far from perfect :D
    I'm just not sure how a loading bay is not a loading bay? Only reason I can think of is that the road markings are so warn that they are virtually unreadable.


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    #40
    sporina
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    kingtut wrote: »
    No I got a fine once (parked in a taxi spot) so I'm far from perfect :D
    I'm just not sure how a loading bay is not a loading bay? Only reason I can think of is that the road markings are so warn that they are virtually unreadable.
    you will have to think a bit more outside the box so..


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    #41
    farmerjj
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    ofcork wrote: »
    AFAIK they don't have to put tickets on the cars now fill in the details on their handheld and fine in the post.

    I saw the wardens putting tickets on cars a couple of Sundays back, a load of angry mass go,ers were reading them after mass.


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    #42
    kcb
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    farmerjj wrote: »
    I saw the wardens putting tickets on cars a couple of Sundays back, a load of angry mass go,ers were reading them after mass.

    I thought mass go-ers and GAA folk were allowed park where they wanted, no?


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    #43
    farmerjj
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    kcb wrote: »
    I thought mass go-ers and GAA folk were allowed park where they wanted, no?

    Oh white mass go,ers just by the look of it.


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    #44
    KCAccidental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭KCAccidental


    A merc was double parked in the middle of North Main Street on Sunday. Blocking two legally parked cars. 2 guards were standing waiting for the owner to come back for about 45 mins, he/she never came back it was towed away. First time I've seen a car towed in the city in years!


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    #45
    ofcork
    Registered Users Posts: 5,394 ✭✭✭ofcork


    And plenty of tickets given out on Sunday cars parked in the taxi ranks and motorcycle parking on the mall again.


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    #46
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    ofcork wrote: »
    And plenty of tickets given out on Sunday cars parked in the taxi ranks and motorcycle parking on the mall again.

    Sadly only for xmas, come January you won't see a warden outside of paid parking hours.


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    #47
    kcb
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    There should be an app in which citizens could upload photos and details of illegally parked cars, to allow fines be processed without wardens having to walk the streets.

    A selfie with the car would be optional! But it would rub it in nicely!


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    #48
    farmerjj
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    kcb wrote: »
    There should be an app in which citizens could upload photos and details of illegally parked cars, to allow fines be processed without wardens having to walk the streets.

    A selfie with the car would be optional! But it would rub it in nicely!

    :rolleyes:


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    #49
    Busyness1
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭Busyness1


    Oafley Jones wrote: »
    They usually are in the run up to Christmas. Yesterday was a surprisingly early start for them. Lots of tickets handed out.

    Oh those cheeky monkeys!


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    #50
    ofcork
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    Parking all over the shop today turned right from bridge onto union quay cars parked right up to the corner hope they were ticketed.


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    #51
    kcb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 992 ✭✭✭kcb


    There was a line of cars parked on double yellow across from Sober Lane - all got tickets from a warden


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    #52
    TheChizler
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    Saw 3 wardens walking separately around the south mall and the quay today. Proper order.


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    #53
    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    Charli Poor Vitamin wrote: »
    Maybe if there was ample parking in town, there wouldn't be such a need for the ¢unts.
    5 multi storey car parks and a park-and-ride system. Hardly sparce.


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    #54
    j8wk2feszrnpao
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    ScrubsfanChris wrote: »
    5 multi storey car parks and a park-and-ride system. Hardly sparce.
    There is ample multi storey cark parks, all day car parks, and the park and ride.
    For those wanting to park on the streets, it's become quite difficult. There's less spaces these days, Oliver Plunkett Street (and side streets) spaces can be inaccessible at times, and it seems that there is more people in the city with cars (so have parking permits that take up available parking).
    People have to adopt to it. Or in a lot of cases they don't access the city that much due to the issues or travel to Mahon Point instead.


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    #55
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    Regardless of how many legal parking spaces there are there is never an excuse for parking illegally. The majority of the time doing so blocks access or prevents people needed certain types of spaces from getting them (disabled, loading etc).

    The illegal parkers are pig-ignorant f*ckers and I wish they got tickets all year round not just at Christmas!


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    #56
    farmerjj
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    King tut stop holding your feelings back, let us know what you really feel;-)


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    #57
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    farmerjj wrote: »
    King tut stop holding your feelings back, let us know what you really feel;-)

    :D


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    #58
    D'Agger
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    ofcork wrote: »
    Parking all over the shop today turned right from bridge onto union quay cars parked right up to the corner hope they were ticketed.

    I sure did - first time parking illegally would you believe - no issues paying a fine as I was in the wrong on double yellow lines - that said, for the safety of my own car, I wouldn't have parked ahead of where I did with cars swinging in. I was effectively underneath the parking sign but that's on yellow lines.

    I think they should raise the fine to 50/60 tbh


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    #59
    ofcork
    Registered Users Posts: 5,394 ✭✭✭ofcork


    Did you actually get a ticket on the car so that parking was crazy though someone comes up the quay and I couldn't swing in blocking traffic behind me.No Garda at the entrance to the multi storey on grand parade either traffic causing jams queuing there.


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    #60
    D'Agger
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    Yeah ticket on the car - like I said, zero issue with it, was in the wrong. Didn't notice it til I was halfway down the road, saw it flapping in the wind....was hoping it was a flier :pac:


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