Liffey valley to start charging for parking

Look they need to get pragmatic about it really. Fair enough they won't back down but they could do the Maths and decide to lower the fee or something like that. It's not that I'm totally against it but it just needs to be done correctly. Possibly offer free off peak parking or nominal parking fee for cinema users.

Just get creative. Offer solutions and don't be trying to absolutely fleece people to the max.

Those main traffic lights are a disaster. Never mind the paying for parking, for those traffic lights alone, I'm now avoiding the place. Took a good 3-4 minutes last night to get through them. What a waste of time, there was no waiting time for the roundabout that used to be there.

Was in marks and Spencer this evening....it was pretty dead...usually busy at around 6

Blanch will follow suits you may bet. Only a matter of time.

from what I’m reading there are about 3400 car parking spaces at Liffey Valley.

if an average of 6000 cars use the car parking daily for an average of two hours. 2.50 the average charge for that time.

around 15000 grand in car parking revenue a day.

A guesstimate of 5.475 million in parking revenue annually.

the overheads for parking will be fûck all…. So it’s a very lucrative revenue stream…

Not sure I know they spent over 30Million redeveloping the car park which is a lot of wonga for what should of been non profitable piece of infrastructure, maybe they thought that it was a reasonable business model a couple of years back and had the opportunity with covid shutdowns to do it, fast forward to now and with cost of living, cost of petrol , cost of electricity, cost of everything and its just completely the wrong time to try and take more out of peoples pockets (as can be seen with the uproar of tolls going up and the government kicked the can down the line) when their pockets have been bleed for other costs and I would hazard a guess its going to impact on business and I can see a lot of shops moving from there.

Only a few min away if you take the M50 which would cost you same as a LV parking. You gain nothing by choosing Blanch, except more shops and more time wasted. If you actually know what you're looking for and what shop you need to go to, and are closer to LV then Blanch, then LV is still better.

Why would SC lose a great income from parking for the sake of the shops' income? Most SC don't care what the income for shops is as long as they pay for the rent... As and example, Blanch SC is in such a high demand that you need to be years in the queue to get a chance to rent a unit. I see no difference for LV. If few shops leave, other will come. So they aren't idiots as you say, they're in fact very smart and only after themselves.

I haven't been in Liffey Valley since late summer because of the ****-show roadworks and now the carpark charges - but I remember the M&S end of the centre having a lot of vacant units - it was eerily quiet down that end. I suspect if M&S wasn't there it would have been deserted.

I'm missing Manning Bakery, Mr Price, is there were to play a bowling and a table pool in LV? Just need some imagination. The problem that even I, living close enough to LV, more often go to Blanch as I find more shops to my needs there. I don't get a concept of LV. And I'm not the only one when I talk to my work colleagues and friends. However, with new apartment buildings at the large roundabout and new estates in Adamstown LV will probably get more customers. And hopefully will offer something different than any other SC in Dublin.

The new traffic layout is not great at all tbh, seems like they fucked it with that turn after all the car shops. Roundabout was far better.

I don’t think there’s any free units? The bits down near M&S have huge new Zara shops and others. has been that way a while too

but you did ask who’d be willing to set up there. The answer is enough to keep the place full at the moment