Liffey Valley Introducing Parking Charges

It's been coming for a while.

I feel sorry for the staff who look like they have to pay a serious chunk of cash to park at work.

Tallaght are also bringing in paid parking soon.

Gouging.

Slightly I think 4 euro a day was mentioned...so adds up quickly!

Unlucky

In fairness Liffey valley has been open for a long time and never charged up until now I would say seen as a small perk of the job.

What ? Its surrounded by housing estates ?

Why arent the food places or boots kicking up a fuss about this? Im sure there are tons of ppl who go there at lunch time. alot of them will stop going if they have to pay an extra 2:50.

It should have been 1 hour free parking +2 hours validated parking + charge the long term parkers after the 3 hours

Ridiculous. I would often nip up at lunchtime for half an hour. Not any more. Of course the interminable roadworks around there hasn’t helped. WHAT ARE THEY DOING WITH THEM???

In any event, the other retail park (with Argos, The Range etc.) will be packed once the charges go in across the road - putting those shops at a disadvantage as their customers won’t be able to find parking.

Pure greed.

Only loser's take the bus.

Hope you have the cojones to tell all the part time minimum wage retail staff in LV that they’re losers as they serve you.

Make sure you don’t shop in Dundrum (old or new centres), Frascati, Pavilion, Whitewater or any of the many other centres with paid parking.

Cycle to Work scheme that the employer agrees to be a part of, or the Taxsaver leap card scheme that the employer agrees to be a part of?

Jesus you're a very bitter person. It's odd behaviour

Good lord

Check my recent comments on a Limerick thread about someone lambasting pedestrians and say the same again about me being in favour of cars all-over-the-shop

Absolute weirdo

You DO realise that shopping centres such as Liffey Valley were designed and built with the motorist in mind?? It was literally the entire point of building it in the first place: for people to drive to a green-field site where they could find all of their retail requirements under one roof. To start whinging that the absolutely awful 'motorist' is at fault for having the absolute gall to DRIVE to the out-of-town facility rather than take public transport, while probably stopping on the way to give a tree a hug, is frankly ridiculous.

Of course there is no such thing as 'free' parking, but the hitherto policy of not charging for parking was reflected in the rents of the tenants in Liffey Valley (the landlord was certainly not going to be out of pocket!) who in turn passed it on to their customers. That is now clearly not the case.

You are being deliberately obtuse waving your eco-banner around on this issue.

hahaha my god

It's about getting feet in the door and spending money inside. That's what should be the incentive to gain footfall

Liffey Valley should be the ones themselves taking the 'hit' on parking, similar to Showgrounds & Poppyfields in Clonmel, similar to The Crescent in Limerick, similar to Mahon Point in Cork

Again you are being obtuse. The paths that people walk on and the roads that people cycle on are partially funded by motorists' road tax and excise duty so there is no subsidy, in fact it could be argued that it is the other way round!! Of course if they brought back the bicycle tax, then this would go some way to balancing the books.

Actually, a bicycle tax... not a bad idea for the Government!!

It would also be very interesting to see the statistics around the mode of transport used to get to Liffey Valley. I would assume that it is likely to be 96/97% by car and thereby fulfilling its design function.

We're talking about Liffey Valley, private space, not public space. It's nothing to do with a non-existent 'road tax' or excise duties. It is a private facility.

But if you do want to look at the big picture, have a look at what's happening in smarter cities, where instead of creating additional barriers to cycling by taxation, they are actually incentivising and encouraging cycling. It's almost as if they've worked out that creating barriers to cyclist as our climate crisis reaches a peak isn't such a smart strategy.

The Paris video is nothing to do with Liffey Valley. The Paris video is to answer your slightly foolish barstool-bore suggestion of a 'bicycle tax'. Do have a look at what other countries are doing.

While LV is indeed a PRIVATE business, it is not restricted to PRIVATE transport users. It is used by people who walk, who cycle and who take the bus - and they're pretty tired of paying for the storage facilities of other customers. Time for motorists to start paying for motoring and stop expecting to be subsidised by all.