Driving in Waterford!

Yellow boxes are just decorative features to a lot of people in Waterford!

On another note id love to know who thought it would be a good idea to have two stop and goes on the N25 within 2km of each other ,if the one at Carrolls Cross wasn’t bad enough there one now at Ballyduff about 2km away!

Hi All, I got a frustrating parking fine recently. I stopped to collect an elderly relative outside city Square just at the trolly drop. I pulled up and had just loaded the shopping and was approached by a parking officer and given a ticket. The car was running the whole time and my kid was inside. I get that it is a no parking zone but the presence of the trolly bay would really suggest that it is an area to collect someone after shopping.

Anyone else had a similar experience?

Thanks for your reply and your mature answer. But why is there a trolly drop if you can't load shopping into the car here.

The entrance by Carraig Dunn. There is a trolly drop just next to the bollards where they new store was built.

You can appeal it but I wouldn't be ignoring it either.

Unlucky to get caught there as people do it all day but the appeal would be frivolous.

You were really unlucky there, i drive down that way every day and i always see people pulling up and emptying their shopping into cars, sure what harm are you actually doing, since any car parked there wouldnt be blocking either the bus or taxi rank? Its a trolley bay thats located near NOTHING, who made that decision?

Your man the traffic warden is a bit of a wan%er anyway, you know the type, swaggering around with his chest cam, full of his own self importance. Who is he anyway only a warden, big deal.

Yeah. Thats him exactly. There was a lady parking attendant around for years and she was very reasonable. It just seems to me like the city council are shooting themselves in the foot. The thing is I come from the ballybricken area every Friday evening and stop off outside city Square collecting my relative and then head back towards lady lane and back up ballybricken. I genuinely don't have time to navigate to the mall and Quay and into the car park which would honestly add another 20 minutes to the trip. So the result of this my relative has to make their way to the hyper centre for shopping and I collect them there. Feels very unfair. Its funny the council were cracking over the ferrybank shopping centre because it would ruin the city centre. But they have done it themselves. Make it as difficult as possible for people to shop in the city centre.

That's fine if you are young and healthy and don't have a weeks shopping with you. My point is myself and countless others like me stop to pick up mainly elderly relatives here with their weeks shopping. Stand there any day and watch and ask yourself honestly if you see any harm in it? The person I spoke to in city Square said that this has been happening since it opened in the 90's and they have never been asked to stop or remove the trolly bay. And yes on a normal day I could park my car in the city Square car park. But on Friday evenings I don't have time to do this. Due to the gridlock on the Mall it literally would take 20+ minutes more. I have picked up my relative every Friday after work for the past 5 years and never had issue now I can't anymore. Their life is greatly inconvenienced. Its not so simple for them to make there way to the hyper center every Friday. Its not the parking ticket that bothers me it's the fact that it has made a massive inconvenience on the life of someone I know. Picture you are a pensioner who loves picking up your pension and walking through the city you grew up in. You get the bus to town and then get picked up that evening with a full weeks shopping. You've been doing it for years but now you can't. Now stand outside city Square and watch countless others do this. Now imagine all those have to stop doing it. Suddenly you begin to see why the city centre is no longer appealing to most.

i agree with you that its not difficult to shop in town-But could there be an option to allocate a pick up/drop off point for city square at Arundel lane/Lady Lane.Should there be spaces available for cars for exactly this reason rather than just have taxis here,as taxis are also allocated space just outside the Omniplex also.

We live in a city. There is going to be traffic. The lack of shops in the city is a far more nuanced issue and isn't down to just parking and traffic. There is plenty of parking at all access points to the city to let you avoid the quay if you are going into the city. What I've found since moving here is a lot of people just like to moan about the city when really the traffic in Waterford is better than any other city in Ireland and even most towns. Traffic in Kilkenny & Wexford is brutal and far worse than Waterford. I do not get the parking moaners at all, I always park in Bolton Street or Waterside and stroll the 5 or 10 minutes into town. Always plenty of space and its cheap at 1.80 an hour too. Some people expect to be able to drive into town traffic free on Saturday and park on the quays for free but that's just totally unreasonable in this day and age.

made a hames of the editing-was just saying couldnt there be a pick up point for non taxis somewhere along this strip-i see your point but also feel that Kilkenny36 has a point about being able to pick up a relative with a trolley of shopping from here!

ah here lads-its on Google Maps-

Cant even get a bitta Sourdough and Gubbeen without the Po-po giving me jip...

The lads....