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Liffey valley to start charging for parking

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Viscount Aggro


    I ve seen drivers leaving the car parks without paying. They tailgate another car exiting the barrier.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,853 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    But the L53 and C2 constantly arrive at the same time where we live and we are early on both routes!!!!!!!!

    Could go 40 mins at the weekend waiting for either a c2/l53. Past experiences!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,531 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    I couldn't be arsed getting public transport to LV. Why would I? It takes 5-10mins to drive so fuel costs are negligible and if all 4 of us were going, why would I pay that amount there and back for public transport when fuel and parking would cost less?

    No thanks



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Yeah, only people getting the bus are teenagers with no car. Especially when you're just going to browse.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,186 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    As the parent of a teenager with no car the option for them to take a bus instead of a lift is very welcome 😉

    © 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭lau1247


    Yesterday was the second time I saw this happen in the last month. You will spot them a mile away as they practice it leading up to the exit.

    That being said, props to the guy in the black Merc yesterday, certainly got the balls even though there were attendant standing next to the barrier machine in both lane.

    West Dublin, ☀️ 7.83kWp ⚡5.66 kWp South West, ⚡2.18 kWp North East



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,892 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    If it happens to me and I cop it I will crawl out in the hopes it stops the tailgater or better still barrier comes down on the clowns car



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,799 ✭✭✭SteM


    I'd imagine there's a sensor in place to stop the barrier coming down on a car?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,853 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    Iconnect now gone from Liffey Valley. not surprise though, that end is totally dead now. Only reason Next is there, is for the online returns as the rest of the shop is dead.



  • Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭taratee


    Nespresso gone also. Used to be the pick up some stuff from it when I was in LV.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,853 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    They shutdown all their shops, all online now



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,531 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    The one in South Anne Street is still open, isn't it?

    Pain in the ass in terms of recycling the pods though. I know An Post will pick them up but it's still not as handy as dropping them I to LV every so often.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,853 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    The shop told us they were all going, Dundrum one gone also.

    Have to say the an post service is very good, just go to the website and they collect it the next day no matter how many bags. The previous courier system was a disaster.

    I loved tasting the different coffee's in Liffey valley before I bought them, but online does have a better selection



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,317 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    You can also print out a postal label, stick it on the bag & drop that into any post office, if it's not convenient for An Post to collect

    Much, much better than the previous courier method.

    I think I've been into the centre thrice since paid parking came in, twice to the cinema and once to M&S. When paying after leaving M&S, my reg wasn't on the system. There was an attendant who told me just to drive up to the barrier & pay there (back in Nov I think).

    Been to B&Q, the Range, Currys etc multiple times, just not the centre. Previously, if I'd have time I'd go over for a wander/coffee/bite to eat. Not now.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,270 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    So what's the story with going to Vue if you have the automatic payments setup?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    I don't know that on, but any time I've gone to Vue with the family we said we came separately and get a spare ticket.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭MrRigsby


    On principle I haven’t gone to LV since they introduced the charges . They want the business so they should be welcoming shoppers , not penalising them. It’s not as if LV is anything special compared to for example Blanchardstown which is free parking



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    When the new system came in, I was charged at the barrier due to the camera reading my registration plate. I am not sure if this is still the process as I cancelled my account due to this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,301 ✭✭✭emo72


    Was there on Saturday to collect a takeaway, you've 15 minutes to get in and out for free, but I didn't take in to account there would be a queue to get out. I won't be bothering again. Talk about making the whole experience unpleasant.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,186 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    We constantly see LV compared to Blanch on this thread which I find odd. I've never been to Blanch because I'd have to pay two tolls to get there and back (regardless of it being a traffic nightmare by all accounts, who cares, I'm never going to find out).

    Surely there's hardly anyone who can get to both LV and Blanch without either paying tolls or taking a ridiculous detour? It's not a straight comparison between one has free parking and the other doesn't.

    © 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭MrRigsby


    Tolls never bothered me before LV introduced the charges and they don’t bother me now . What bothers me is a company already making a tonne of money deciding to be tight and soak their customers for parking fees. It’s not about the money . Considering the relatively close proximity of both centres I would have thought it was an obvious comparison. Sounds like a lot of people are voting with their feet judging from the comments about lack of footfall and closing stores , not just me , tolls are not . There is a back road for anyone wishing to avoid tolls if they know their way around and want to avoid tolls or the M50 traffic . I never had any issues with traffic around Blanchardstown as again local knowledge provides many alternative ways in and out . LV on the other hand at times has very bad congestion due to the barriers



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Is the "local knowledge" of blanch a secret tunnel? Because it can be a nightmare to get in and out of.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,531 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    I'd also like to know about this tunnel or how I can avoid Lucan Village which is a permanent traffic jam nowadays in order to avoid the M50



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,270 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    So apparently the way this works is you log into the parking website and redeem the Vue parking voucher there.

    I didn't know this at the time. I tried to use the parking machine but it said paid, presumably as I have the automatic payments setup. I was going to try scan the Vue voucher but never got that far, I'm not even sure if the machine can scan anything!

    Left the car park expecting a €5 charge but I can't see anything on my account since December.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭runswithascript


    Most people I know have stopped using Liffey Valley for this reason, and as such the surrounding retail shops, Tesco, B & Q, restaurants, because they are not already at Liffey Valley for something else.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,980 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    I am a bit of a tightwad when it comes to paying a profitable company to increase its profits further. So I usually park around the Range or B&Q, (free) have a nosey around there, then walk over via Tesco into the entrance that leads to Dunnes. It's fine, no worse that carrying stuff from the Centre itself out into a massive dreary car park. Just a few minutes extra. Realistically the stuff you need a car nearby for is in the retail park (free) anyway.

    Since doing this I have no need to park and pay in LV anymore.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 667 ✭✭✭lordleitrim


    As LV SC is unusual among Irish shopping centres not to have a mainstream supermarket, most shoppers won't be weighed down by half a dozen grocery bags or need a trolley so walking from the retail park to the SC with a few clothes or gift bags isn't too demanding. If you can afford to do all your weekly grocery shopping in M&S food hall, then a couple of euro for parking won't be a deterrent.

    Has the retail park or Tesco carpark gotten strict about non shoppers parking there?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,531 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    I think Tesco are starting to get strict and clamping people who are there too long. Could be very much mistaken though but I thought I'd read it somewhere



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,228 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Absolutely hopping today not too surprising with the rain, the tonne of things going on around dublin cc etc.

    Went to cinema so free parking had a lunch and some shopping all good.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    They're clamping people using the retail park that have been there for more than 2 hours. I reckon they might be using the cameras to see if the owners are walking to the main centre. Saw 3 cars clamped in the retail park 1 day last week



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