An end to free parking?

A lot of people manage it and a lot of people don't. We have more cars than ever, so I don't think it's trending the way you think it is. Eventually, yes, but not in the next couple of decades. We have a long, long way to go and the shítty attitude many have towards motorists does nothing to help. Chopping up every street in the country for cycle lanes and making every other street in the capital a 1 way street won't reduce car use. All it does is píss motorists off with longer journeys which adds to pollution.

I started using personal transport because Dublin Bus was so unreliable. I kid you not when I say I often had to wait more than 2 hours for a bus that was supposed to be 30-40 minutes in frequency. For a 40 minute journey, that really added to my commute after the 20 minute walk to the route. There was also no way of knowing in advance which bus would take a detour through hospital grounds. I picked up a used moped and never looked back. I've been on buses a handful of times since, but never to commute and never when I really needed to rely on one.

Taking away parking, or charging for it at ones place of employment when it is currently free will have negative consequences across the board. I know some smug Lycra lads won't give a damn, but when other services are impacted, or become unavailable due to lack of manpower, it will be just another thing the Government got their hands around and made a complete hack job of.

It doesn’t matter what the rules are the multinationals will easily be able to cover the cost even if it means giving employees a small pay increase to cover it. Many multinationals gave an inflation pay adjustment in the last year which would be much bigger than this.

This will more affect poor employees in smaller companies who would already be using PT if viable.

Marie Donnelly and her cohort won't be allowing it to be set up where the employer absorbs the cost. I'm sure any such implementation of parking charges would see her escape them as a working expense on top of her bloated salaries. Lets not forget this is the same socialite bimbo who cost the tax payer £500k when she was the Chairman of the IMMA in 2002. She has a history of ramming change down peoples throats without considering the consequences.

This is just another tax on the motorist and a hefty one at that. I for one would not agree to employment where I had to park my car and pay a parking fee.

If you want to be a cycling soldier, or endure inadequate, unreliable PT, you go right ahead. I won't be taking anymore green agenda, hypocritical nonsense lying down. There is no hiding what this really is: another attack on the motorist. There will be no shortage of employers out there willing to provide me with free parking should I need to work on their site. Or I could just become a dole sponger and would have no need to park at any employers premises. I wouldn't even need to use PT....just get Tesco to deliver me dutch and smokes.

Free parking available for all employees on a first come/first served basis would not attract BIK (hence why teachers etc would not be a problem). It’s the allocation basis and “entitlement” which means that it is a benefit and should be taxed. And no I am not a begrudger, I have benefited from status related free parking for significant periods. The most extreme being one of 40 spaces in a building of 8,000. Of course I should have been taxed on that benefit.

I guess in a lot of cases they can availa if the same benefit but they choose not to. There is merit in the argument for BIK etc to reduce private car use in congested areas and that should be the first step. In the cases you are responding to, it seems to to consist of factory and shift workers who probably get universal access to parking. It is right to seek to disincentivise it. However, nudge theory would suggest starting elsewhere with a view to getting the ball rolling. Focus on the discrimatory offer of free workplace parking and tax that. See how it changes behaviour etc. with factories, out of town office parks and the like it is complex given the radial nature of employee residences to provide an immediate solution. Over time, networks of public transport can be delivered. Making it work first I. The city centre through increasing the speed of road based public transport (buses/coaches) by eliminating discretionary driving would help.

I walk 25 minutes to my office from what you would no doubt call a leafy suburb. Many neighbours drive into the same office from shorter distances because there is no disincentive to do so.

I am 25st with a dodgy knee; if I can do it then they can but need the financial penalty. By contrast, someone heading from Kilcock to CityWest (say) does not have the option of walking or taking public transport. Free workplace is available to all.

Greystones has a single track into Dublin. This is one of the barriers to more efficient public transport.

It would include the vast amount of parking in Dublin City centre where congestion is worst.

The GP are an utter joke of a party filled with ultra woke shíte bags. The so called PT improvements are at a snails pace, delayed, or cancelled.

They forced the county councils to spend their whole cycle infrastructure last year or lose out in funding the next year. All this did was get councils to put miles of poorly planned, next to useless cycling infrastructure onto the roads at huge expense and bad value for money.

They have delayed time and again the legislation to make e-scooters legal for road use and have watched every other EU country implement legislation within months of announcing it.

They have essentially cancelled metro north, the one project that would make a huge difference to many thousands of people who would use it daily and remove reduce road congestion.

All they are good at is making it more expensive to drive a car. History will repeat and they will be down to one or two TDs next time around. If Catherine keeps her seat, she will strike the jugular to take over the GP. Ryan won’t give a shîte at that stage. He will have shafted us all.

^ He was waiting all day to use that one 😂

I was working at a company a few years ago where i had a parking space. They moved to a nicer office about 500 meters down the road and there was no parking there. Most of us were going to leave because we needed to go into the office and then go to various clients from there most days so needed cars. The solution was that the company rented private parking spaces near the office for us.

No parking was an impossible hurdle for us.