Parking on private roads

Just a suggestion, the license plates are fully visible, need to be hidden but I agree, shockingly bad parking 😒

Its a privately owned property with the owner creating the markings and there is and should never be any garda involvement in this.

The car driver has done nothing illegal whatsoever as any marking on private propoerty are totally unenforceable except private enforecement (such as clamping) if the relevant and clear notices are placed.

And the vehicle is not blocking a fire exit in any way or manner.

Maybe you have the hump because its a bmw and that affects you and I'm sure you are the absolute perfect driver and park perfectly everytime without fail and you are so affected by a very minor indiscretion on private land, that you set up a new account to vent your anger.

Just add it to the huge list of other numpties here: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057761511/your-own-pictures-of-bad-parking-no-chat-24h-ban/p25

Wtf kind of comment is this, honestly?

You might need to check your facts before posting acerbic stuff like that.

Most of the Road Traffic Acts apply to any place where the public has unfettered access. This means most public car parks. But you're right, the Gardaí are never going to bother with infractions like this so presumably you'd be okay with clamping if the land owner decided it was necessary?

The reason the extra space is marked out near the fire exit is two-fold. It allows people to spread out as soon as they leave the building and it allow fire fighters space to enter the building while people are leaving. But you knew that, right?

I'm not a perfect driver, I make mistakes from time to time. But I do try my best not to park like an a**hole and, it turns out, it's not really that hard. It annoys me in principle when I see people being lazy and ignorant but it's nothing to do with them driving a BMW or any other kind of car. Get out of here with that daft kind of logic!

We need these signs, they are legally enforceable in many countries. Any carpark etc. where the public have access can erect them, subject to a couple of details. It translates roughly as 'Road Traffic Act is valid/in operation here'. Police or traffic wardens or Local Authority can fine, tow, etc.

It's down to laziness and acceptance here. It's the same near us when a match is on, cars dumped everywhere, making shlt out of the green and blocking or hindering traffic. There is loads of parking within 3-5 mins walk of the pitch. Local Lidl, cars just drive right up to the entrance. Do it in Germany or Austria and you'll be called out, here you'll probably get a threat or a 'fcuk off' if you're lucky.

Think we should get stickers to place on cars that park like this

Sticker - I park like a TWAT

Just to highlight their ignorance hasn't gone unnoticed! (And to get a pic for the other bad parking thread on here :))

Common place everywhere & nothing will be done as these drivers don't give a hoot. (zero enforcement or deterrent)

Are you saying that if you drive through a stop sign in a private car park and injure someone, or it results in a fatality, you can just drive off? The stop sign does not apply, so you're good to go? Somehow I don't think so.

At a minimum you have a duty of care.

I can see a lot of difficulty with telling a judge that the stop sign doesn't apply and that the resulting injury/fatality is not your fault. Maybe I'm wrong.

My original post was about the idea that the Gardai have no and should never have any input in a private car park. I'm simply pointing out that they can and do, not so much with damage only incidents but where there are injuries and fatalities. To drive under the assumption that there will never be any Garda involvement on private property is simply wrong. I accept that the Gardai will not involve themselves with parking issues or the failure of a motorist to obey a stop sign in a private car park but they can and they have got involved in the past and will in the future.

To say that road signs and markings on private property have no standing in law and will be be a solid defense in front of a judge or in dealing with your insurance company is wrong.

Just to move in on a bit, there are private areas where there is no implied right of access eg airside at Dublin Airport. If there was an a driving related injury or fatality, do you think the Gardai, if summoned, would say, naw, nothing to do with us, private matter, swap details and sort it out yourselves.

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Nobody has suggested such, the points being made were about road markings and signs, not collisions, injury or death.

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Again nobody has suggested anything like this, we have jumped from the legalities of street signs and markings on private roads to injury and death on private roads, they are not comparable.

If you ever worked in retail you'll know that the customer is rarely right and usually an A Hole.

The only place where drive in parking makes sense is a supermarket, it's easier to unload a trolley from the road than bouncing it off other cars to get to the boot if reversed in.

People are unbelievably lazy. I mean seriously unbelievably lazy.

Apartment block near my house, several cars parked on the path outside because all the visitor spaces out front were taken by residents. They have underground parking. Management put up bollards and now everyone suddenly has somewhere to park. People often parked across the road at parking spaces belonging to houses because they could just stroll across the road to the building. We had to implement clamping in the estate because of these gee bags.

Same crap with the apartment block across from my house. They have parking out front and to the side of the building but people were parking outside my house while I was at work and walking across to the apartment rather than parking slightly down the road in their own space.

Same with carparks all over. Sure the back of car parks are always empty because people are just **** lazy. Works out well for me though there's always a handy space.