Liffey valley to start charging for parking

Resulting in pay parking being introduced in the retail park in short order, no doubt.

I was eating in Cosmo with great views over the car park and I saw exactly what you mention. Big blockages of people trying to go into spaces, needing several turns to get in. Not their fault. Cars are a lot bigger than they were a few decades ago and the new layout doesn't help. The angled parking was so much superior.

It takes 5-10 times as long to reverse park than to slide it straight into an angled space. All that extra time is a waste of life, so lots of lives are lost that way. Simple!

In fairness one would have to be a complete moron to reverse into an angled space.

The problem with backing into parking spaces (angled or not) is your boot is on the inside, someone in the space behind you can park close enough to make opening it difficult, and getting large shopping bags in is awkward especially given how much narrower the spaces are now.

This is cunt1sh profit taking, little more. They are outside of the city limits, even the M50 and they're charging for a car park that is rarely if ever full.

As for those thinking that the non drivers were subsidising them before, please let me know what shops have dropped their prices to now satisfy you?

I really hope they lose a shed-ton of business over this. Yet another reason not to go near to Dublin, now extending county-wide.

Reverse parking should be the norm, it was the norm when I learnt to drive. People who can't or won't reverse park are either lazy, have no patience or are incompetent imho. Yes there can be the small inconvenience of access to the boot in poorly designed car parks but it's far safer to later drive forward out of a parking space when your windows are misting up.

Many building sites demand reverse parking for site workers, standard safety stuff.

I hate being forced to drive forward into on street parking spaces by the local authority permitting angled parking. No business doing this and should be prosecuted under road safety legislation - thou shalt not reverse from a lesser road onto a mainer one. It is possible to reverse into angled spaces but unnecessarily awkward.

As for paying for parking, what's new.

Yeah ok, I think we're done now with the "what way to park is best" discussion. Everybody has had their say.

The angled spaces were so much better. So much quicker for people to get in and out of

Just in case you haven't seen but Vue cinema in Liffey Valley is paying for parking. On entry to cinema when showing your ticket they ask if you drove and then give you a little card with a QR code to scan at the pay stations after. Works very well plus they have a great offering on all standard cinema tickets for €6 online (€7 if paid on site).

I do agree they've made a mess of it, the angled parking as mentioned above was good and the general disregard for staff is all too typical. Never frequented Liffey Valley very often but it's not a place I would have expected a lot of park and ride users parking for the day while working in the city. If it was such a problem they could have implemented a max stay of 4hrs (covers cinema goers) and starting clamping anything longer like they do in places like the Merrion Centre in D4 beside Vincent's Hospital.

Blanchardstown is my nearest cinema but I haven't been to it in at least 5 years, always expensive and they don't even do a cheap Wed showing anymore. Pre covid used to prefer going all the way into Smithfield to the LightHouse cinema which was just a nicer experience all round. I did look up pricing of Odeon cinemas a couple of weeks ago just prior to Liffey Valley starting to charge for parking and for standard seating it was showing me €14.50 + 0.95 booking fee for a whopping €15.45 per ticket so that was the incentive for my first ever visit to Vue cinema in Liffey Valley despite it being a bit of a pain to get there.

I love the way people just believe anything someone spurts on a forum.

You'll find that this is rubbish.

@Snake Plisken - fully agree. And it looks like there will be a permanent traffic light for going right at LV coming from the R113. That alone is a disaster that will unnecessarily delay people where there were no delays before as there was a roundabout.

Had first experience with the parking there today in operation.

A 2 minute queue to pay for the parking all the while being pushed around by people trying to enter or leave the shopping centre. To then come out and on exit see most people didn't pay, they're all fumbling with their cards and phones, holding the line of cars behind them.

Next time I won't be the idiot queueing twice. What an idiotic system. Spent €400 around the stores to then get heckled for spare change on the exit lol. Disgraceful. Pretty much every online retailer is doing free shipping, in Dublin I've to pay just to view the items. Wow.

Oh no. Who could possibly have foreseen this terrible consequence...?

Silly buggers.

Thanks for the cinema offer above, but really with all the knock-on delays, frustrations and costs, I'll be staying well clear for the foreseeable.