Price of parking tickets to rise;

junkyard

:mad: I just heard on the radio that the price of a parking ticket is to rise from 19 euros to 40 euros......thats over double the price!!!....what a rip off. I can appreciate that people don't get parking tickets everyday, a rise of 5 or 6 euros would be bad enough. If they get away with this the next step will be other motoring offenses. I think its about time the Irish motorists take a stand on all these rip-offs they seem to be fair game for every price hike. Its about time some kind of watchdog group was set up, not just the likes of the SIMI who are afraid to say anything.

comanche

junkyard wrote:

:mad: I just heard on the radio that the price of a parking ticket is to rise from 19 euros to 40 euros......thats over double the price!!!....what a rip off. I can appreciate that people don't get parking tickets everyday, a rise of 5 or 6 euros would be bad enough. If they get away with this the next step will be other motoring offenses. I think its about time the Irish motorists take a stand on all these rip-offs they seem to be fair game for every price hike. Its about time some kind of watchdog group was set up, not just the likes of the SIMI who are afraid to say anything.

a bargain compared to being clamped!

maidhc

comanche wrote:

a bargain compared to being clamped!

I saw on the paper that Galway are giving the clampers the boot. Fair play.

Jip

Why is it a ripoff ? You park illegally you pay the fine, no complaints.
But you have a point, why not start a lobby group to help those poor unfortunates caught drink driving while uninsured, god love them.

junkyard

From what your saying Jip, you don't mind paying high taxes and VRT and high petrol costs for the pleasure of using our potholed roads? If that is so good luck to you and keep up the hard work...your going to have to at the rate the cost of everything is going up. I'm not promoting drink driving or uninsured driving as you can see if you read all of my post, my argument is about the high cost of motoring in this country. I'm sure you have got a parking ticket at some time in your motoring career I know I have and in the case of my ticket I got it outside a doctors surgery while I was helping some one in there and in the space of four minutes inside I got a ticket and no way was I going to get away with it even after explaining my case and I wasn't even blocking traffic.

Eoin

But you are not buying a service, it is a punitive measure for something you shouldn't have done in the first place. An increase in parking charges would be a rip-off.

maidhc

eoin_s wrote:

But you are not buying a service, it is a punitive measure for something you shouldn't have done in the first place. An increase in parking charges would be a rip-off.

True. I would think €19 is a reasonable punishment without being severe in a totalitarian kind of way. Maybe €40 is also proportionate. I don't know, but it is on the steep side.

It is unfair of Jip to compare a parking fine to drink driving, all that happens by not paying to park is you deprive the LA of a certain sum of money. I'm not referring to disabled spaces/clearways, nor do I think is Junkyard since the fines are different in those situation.

Jip

I'm not comparing a illegal parking to drink driving. The point I'm making is that if I think I'm hard done by after being caught drinking driving or driving while uninsured would it be ok for me to complain about my punishment and get a lobby group going to have it reduced ?
No, because I shouldn't have done it. Same goes for illegal parking.

It can be equally said that it's unfair of Junkyard to compare VRT etc with parking fines. Parking fines are not part of everyday motoring in Ireland and can be easily avoided. VRT, tax and insurance can't.

And no, I never received a parking fine, they're probably the easiest of motoring offences to avoid.

mike65

Nothing to do with Motors directly. Moved.

Mike.

Chris_533976

Oh dear what a pity... the price of illegally parking has gone up.

If you dont want to pay it, dont park illegally.

Not that difficult.

jlang

Still a bit low, I think. At EUR3 an hour or whatever it is, it's nearly worth risking it if you think you won't get caught every day.

I always thought it's funny that there's parking tickets given out by Gardai or traffic wardens that are fairly cheap and theres clamps given out by clampers that are quite pricey - should all be the one system. There's probably union rules preventing transferring the wardens to the new services, but still it's a bit of an anomaly.

BrianD

Will the price of clamping change? Does the clamping charge include the parking fine plus a clamping/release charge?

You rarely see Gardai giving parking tickets these days but last month a Garda on motorcycle appeared twice in a week on our street on Dublin 2 and dished out tickets to all and sundry. This was odd as it is a quiet one-way street leading to the quays that is rarely used by through traffic. Getting his quota up?

loyatemu

it costs nearly €3 an hour to park in Dublin - in that context €19 is too low to be a major deterrent - €40 seems about right. This is probably the first penalty increase in 10 years.

Alun

I live in Bray, and often use the Dart to go into town. I drive to the Dart station because a) the bus is relatively expensive for such a short journey, and b) its timing is impossible to rely on.

So, down on the seafront I have the option of parking in one of two car parks with (free) all-day parking which are chock-a-block full by about 8am, or parking in one of many free parking spaces with a 3hr limit, so I choose that
option.

I guess that I get, on average, 2 or 3 parking tickets there a year, and whether it's €19 or €40 a shot isn't really relevant. It's still cheap compared to what I'd have to pay if the option to pay was there, which it isn't.

LFCFan

The parking fines that are going up are for parking in places that are not covered by clampers. Clampers clamp you if you don't pay in designated areas. These fines are for people parking in Handicap Spots, clearways, in front of schools etc etc. There is no parking fine for not paying for parking in a parking spot. That's what the clampers are for. For once I have no problem with these FINES going up. If you park illegally (as opposed to being 5 minutes past on the metre) you deserve to be fined and €19 is hardly much of a deterrant. I just wish the Government would put more effort into giving people other options other then having to bring their car everywhere, this reducing the amount of illegal parking in the first place.