Liffey valley to start charging for parking

I went to the cinema a few months ago and got one of the vouchers for free parking I went to one of the machines inside the main door near Penny's and typed in my reg came to 7.50 I then scanned the barcode on the ticket I was given by cinema staff if I recall I didn't see any message to say paid so bought the ticket with me just in case and drove up to the barriers and it lifted automatically.

I also hear Tesco are going to put barriers up similar to the ones in Tesco Adamstown so does using it as an free carpark will need to purchase something in Tesco to get the ticket to validate their parking ticket

After being in Blanchardstown a few times recently, I'd happily pay for liffey valley parking than have to wait 20 minutes to get in or out of Blanchardstown. The layout of blanch is a nightmare.

Interestingly, I haven't seen the LV carparks as busy as they have been over Christmas for a long long time. Even the far end of the M&S carpark was full the other day.

Still though, what really grates is the 15min policy. 30mins would have been perfect. It would still attract "casual" shoppers who want to buy one or two items. Even with 15mins, I can just about park in the purple carpark, run into M&S, grab the few items I know exactly that I need, pay and get back to the car and out the barrier in less than 15mins but it's bloody tight.

Barrier in and out, reg is taken on the way in.

Same here. Free parking at Tesco and the retail parks and anything I've had to buy from the main shopping centre has been small enough for bus/bicycle.

Good, we shouldn't be pandering to people who choose to buy vehicles that are too big for our current infrastructure imo. We're not America.

The new coach parking is absolutely ridiculous.

It's all the way up past the Marks & Spencer car park so not safe for bringing a group of school kids through.

No safe walkway through the car park then nearest entrance is food section of M&S. Nighmare for school group.

How the hell is that an improvement?

My wife was saying the Tesco car park was being well policed just before Christmas, I wonder were a lot of people parking there and walking up to the main SC.

It's kind of pointless to say it was jammed coming up to Christmas, when you'd expect it to be busy, without seeing how it has been effected for the rest of the year. Anecdotely, my wife and her friends used to meet there on Saturday or Sunday mornings for coffee and to wander around for a few hours shopping but that has been cut way back. Now they usually just meet for coffee in some other place that has free parking.

The best selling car for several years running isn’t average???? If you say so . You do realise most manufacturers have dropped traditional 3 box saloons (mondeo and Avensis for example) from their ranges in favour of SUV models and are dropping smaller cars altogether (the fiesta is also gone ) due to the smaller profit margins on them and the need to reduce use of ICE in favour of EV technology . The size of cars overall has increased mainly due safety requirements . Car park owners need to move with the times

If the owners of these larger vehicles need larger parking spaces then they will have to pay the increased parking charges, least they could do is move with the times.

A lot of multi story car parks weren’t designed with the significant added weight of EV vehicles in mind and won’t be fit for purpose when EV’s are used by all

I wouldn't be so sure - car weight is approaching triple what it was in the 60s and you'll be well in to the safety margins by then.

They'll end up looking like this 😁

It was the level above the level which was on fire.

Yes, jet fuel can melt steel beams...

Don't know if you're familiar with click and collect spot at Tesco Liffey Valley, but it's a delivery van parked in a specific area of the car park. Creating a separate traffic lane just for that sounds a bit extreme. I think a free minimum stay would be more practical.

Wow, was in there with my daughter on sat. No surprise though as that end is dead as door nail.

All of liffey valley was dead last Sat and even on xmas eve morning the numbers were down on previous years

We used to go up to LV at least once a month ( from Newbridge ), but stopped when the parking charges came in. I had reason to be in the SC recently at the M&S end. Even the coffee shop in the middle of the floor outside the M&S entrance is gone.

Really sad demise to a once good SC.

Getting rid of that coffee shop was a good thing. No need for it there

Numbers do drop after Christmas also but the car park has hit it the shopping centre also.

I live local to Liffey Valley. Gone are the days now when I might swing by for a casual look around, maybe pick up something unexpected or some lunch. I now only go there if I absoltely have to. Even once I was in and out in <15 minutes to avoid any parking charge!

In my opinion though, the worst thing about the car park is not the charges (and I'm sure this has been mentioned in the thread) - but it is the new layout! It is bloody awful.

The pathways from car space to centre are mostly non-existent - very high risk of getting creamed, especially kids who may run ahead. The roads around the spaces are very now long winded, so there's a higher risk of getting stuck behind someone waiting for someone else to a exit space - which creates a tailback.

Don't get me started on that CRAP web site. My goodness. Who designed that? It certainly wasn't designed for actual end users.

The older car parking layout and setup was a million times better. Parking at an angle was so handy!

I was there last week just dropping someone off.

Got stuck waiting to get back out behind some eejit who was causing problems at the barrier and the queue was all the way back. Pissing rain so no staff member at the barrier to assist. So annoying.

Ended up having to pay for parking when I had never actually parked.