Is this a new thing in car parks??

Cucullan

The last two of times I've entered one of the car parks in Nenagh where I live, a car coming out gave me their parking disk. Both of which had over an hour left which saved me a few pennies. So i was just wondering does this happen all over Ireland and has it been happening for ages???

Owen

I do it a fair bit. I think everyone likes beating parking prices, so it's a nice thing to do!

smashey

It happens in Donegal/Tyrone/Derry regularly and has been for some time.

Anan1

I tend to do it too, with Pay & Display. It costs nothing, and it gives me that nice, warm feeling.;)

LostinBlanch

Before they changed the on street parking tickets in dublin to non sticky ones, people used to leave the ones with unused time on the meters for others to use. I wonder why the corpo changed the tickets? :rolleyes:

Del2005

I've done it myself several times. But went to it in Naas one time and just as I was about to stick the ticket to the machine noticed it was outside the court house and though better of it. P!ssed me off as I had nearly a full hour left. Took my time getting into car but no-one else parked in that time,

OKenora

I usually do it too, for the warm fuzzy feeling as well.

dubtom

Ahh,thats nice.... but where are all you feckers when I'm parking?:D

Lord Nikon

I do it too, sure I'm great I am, giving away free stuff.

cormie

I've been handed tickets with time on them before and only recently saw a ticket stuck on the machine itself so I've started doing that now too:)

OKenora

Ahh,thats nice.... but where are all you feckers when I'm parking

Sitting there waiting for you but you never showed

Michael G

We all do it. It feels like a way of telling them to kucf off, and being nice to other motorists at the same time.

colm_mcm

this was proving such a problem for local councils in the UK that some installed keyboards on the ticket machines, you now have to key in the last 3 letters/numbers on your reg plate, or else the ticket is invalid.

daedalus2097

Muppets! How is it a problem for them? In theory they shouldn't be losing out on money seeing as that space is paid for for the duration of the ticket, regardless of who's parked there.They're only missing out on overpaid fees which they shouldn't count on anyway!

Victor

LostinBlanch wrote:

Before they changed the on street parking tickets in dublin to non sticky ones, people used to leave the ones with unused time on the meters for others to use. I wonder why the corpo changed the tickets? :rolleyes:

People were complaining the reason they got clamped was because there was a load of condensation in the car that loosened the sticker from the window and fell off and thats why the clampers didn't see it (likely storey of course).

So now, you are to put it on the dash board.

ambro25

colm_mcm wrote:

this was proving such a problem for local councils in the UK that some installed keyboards on the ticket machines, you now have to key in the last 3 letters/numbers on your reg plate, or else the ticket is invalid.

Entirely true - and it's not 'some', it's pretty much nationwide presently.

daedalus2097 wrote:

Muppets! How is it a problem for them? (...) They're only missing out on overpaid fees which they shouldn't count on anyway!

It was never a 'problem' - but Councils copped on that they could double (or more) the revenue per parking space overnight, since drivers would not be able to pass credit along anymore - so they did it because they could. Simple as.

Frankly, I'm amazed Dublin corpo hasn't copped onto that one yet - it's been used for donkey's years in the UK (since before the change of reg style, e.g. when it was still A 123 BCD).

As for 'passing the credit around', I'm glad to say I've been doing it for over 17 years wherever I've been

daedalus2097

That's what I thought... Yeah, it is strange that the Corpo here hasn't twigged on another easy money thing.

rediguana

Sometimes I drive to a parking metre and I put in maybe twenty quid to get ten separate tickets. Then I give these to the next batch of people parking on that street. Immediately afterwards I drive to an ATM, take out all my money, and fling it up in the air for passers-by to grab for themselves.

You mean all you people just give the remnants of one ticket to someone? Bit mean, isn't it?

Seanie M

In Tullamore, the ONLY all-day aprking area is in Market Square, the rest of the town (bar the Bridge Center's parking by the hour) is a max of 2 hours. as I am self-employed, I often travel into Tullamore for meetings etc, and try and park in Market Square. €2.50 for the day, but no harm passing the ticket on to another incoming parker - pay it forward and all that! I must do it at least once a week.

Seanie.

Anan1

Del2005 wrote:

I've done it myself several times. But went to it in Naas one time and just as I was about to stick the ticket to the machine noticed it was outside the court house and though better of it. P!ssed me off as I had nearly a full hour left. Took my time getting into car but no-one else parked in that time,

Why would you not want to do it outside the court house?

Green_Martian

I have handed my ticket to ppl if i am leaving and have some time left on it....... as said in here already it gives you that nice warm feeling of helping someone out

prospect

If i have a reasonable amount of time on my ticket I give it to someone. And 50% of the time I get handed a ticket. That Karma thing really works...

Fratton Fred

I was puling into a parking space at the Red Cow park and Ride the other day, just a a car was pulling out. The driver said he had paid for the full day so I may as well park in his spot. I declined as I was in a rush but another driver did.

As I was leaving that evening, Q-Park had a guy at the exit asking to see people's receipt's to show they had paid. I told him it was in my laptop bag in the boot and there is no instruction to keep the receipt so he said ok and went on to the next driver.

Have Q-park spotted a flaw in their Luas parking schemes?

Tabnabs

It's happened to me a couple of times from the good peole in Blackrock in Dublin.

unnameduser

certainly happens in my home town. I parked in one of our carparks 6 days a week for a year at the cost of 2.50. Now i would be coming and going from the carpark all day heading for lunch / meetings etc and was offered tickets with some time left all the time. had to explain i had an allday one already in fear that some one thought i was being ignorant!

Good karma is what i say

zilog_jones

Never seen this happen in Limerick with our big stupid old-fashioned parking discs. I guess we're all jerks.

colm_mcm

are they the ones you have to stab your key through the paper for the hour and minute etc. do they still do those?

ninty9er

zilog_jones wrote:

Never seen this happen in Limerick with our big stupid old-fashioned parking discs. I guess we're all jerks.

Lots of people are using ParkMagic in Limerick now. I think it's great altogether, don't even have to leave the office to add another €1.50, just give the aul mobile a tinkle.

Are they trying it in Cork now did I hear??

ninty9er

colm_mcm wrote:

are they the ones you have to stab your key through the paper for the hour and minute etc. do they still do those?

Them'd be the ones!! except they scratch now like a scratch card :rolleyes: :rolleyes: They're being phased out though as parking in the city centre is being slowly banned bit by bit :D:D The place is startin to look a lot better

zilog_jones

And let's not forget the several parking areas replaced by taxi ranks which the taxi drivers refuse to use!

dubtom

zilog_jones wrote:

And let's not forget the several parking areas replaced by taxi ranks which the taxi drivers refuse to use!

Here here,shower of ****.





I never use them.

ballooba

Parking fees are not to pay for the parking spot, they are a deterrent to unnecesary use of a space. e.g. Parking in city centre for 3 hours... €7.50. Return on the 46A... €3~.

PauloMN

ballooba wrote:

Parking fees are not to pay for the parking spot, they are a deterrent to unnecesary use of a space. e.g. Parking in city centre for 3 hours... €7.50. Return on the 46A... €3~.

I think everyone here knows that, the fact still remains that when you pay you are effectively hiring a space, why should it matter who is parked there if it has been paid?

Anyway, fact of the matter is that at present the parking discs can be shared, so let's keep sharing the credit where possible, I've done this in the past where I've had more than a few mins leftover.

As for why Ireland don't use the machines like in the UK - I'm sure it's just a matter of time and money. A lot of the pay and display machines are not there that long, the councils prob spent a lot putting them there and will upgrade them in some time.

galwaytt

ballooba wrote:

Parking fees are not to pay for the parking spot, they are a deterrent to unnecesary use of a space. e.g. Parking in city centre for 3 hours... €7.50. Return on the 46A... €3~.

what nonsense, I live in a rural area with no bus service. So, can I park for free then?

It's a motoring tax designed to milk motorists - it has nothing to do with promoting buses.

ballooba

galwaytt wrote:

what nonsense, I live in a rural area with no bus service. So, can I park for free then?

It's a motoring tax designed to milk motorists - it has nothing to do with promoting buses.

It's not nonsense. It's fact.

Bogger77

ballooba wrote:

It's not nonsense. It's fact.

So good you had to say it twice?

In Dublin, you can claim this as a fact, but in most of the rest of the country, there's no local bus service and an erratic, at best, service linking local villages and towns together. Example, Athlone, Bus Eirean run a local bus service which is great if you're a student wishing to go from the RTC into Golden Island, but feck all use to get from Retreat Road to RTE studio's. So taking a Taxi or driving the car in are only options, in Irish weather.
Galway's public transport system is ok, as long as you're on a route. Cork's bus service is great if you're on a route and you like sitting on Panna looking at the shops from the bus.


Outside of Dublin, it's the Urban Councils way of mugging the motorists, who park on the streets that they, the Town councils, don't maintain as most streets are County council area's responsibility. Example, Tullamore, where the introduction of the highest per hour rate outside of Dublin led to immediate drop off in trade in the town, and massive protests by businesses, making the council backtrack and reduce fee's by 50%

ballooba

Bogger77 wrote:

So good you had to say it twice?

In Dublin, you can claim this as a fact, but in most of the rest of the country, there's no local bus service and an erratic, at best, service linking local villages and towns together.

I never siad it was to encourage bus use. I said it was to discourage unnecessary use of the space. I then proceeded to give on example. The example may be different for other parts of the country but the fact remains that the parking charge is a means of regulating the use of a limited amount of parking resources. Another example, if the parking in a town centre was free then all of the people working there would park there rather than parking away from the centre, sharing lifts, walking or other means of getting to work.

Why do shopping centre car parks charge for parking but then validate the ticket if you have business in the centre? It's not rocket science.

UCD is trying to come up with means of tackling unnecessary use of spaces on their campus by commuters. In this instance the parking fee has proved unsuccessful because the people for whom the spaces are provided can not afford the fees but the unintended users can. Thus a new mechanism, likely one of permits, will have to be designed by UCD.

Bogger77 wrote:

Example, Tullamore, where the introduction of the highest per hour rate outside of Dublin led to immediate drop off in trade in the town, and massive protests by businesses, making the council backtrack and reduce fee's by 50%

There may be abuses, but that is why we have democrac and interest groups such as Chambers of Commerce.

LegacyUser

ve also done this in Wicklow if I have time left on my ticket. The reason is not to feel good about myself but to encourage others to do it too. I have got parking fines over the past when I have merely been a few mins over the time or another time I got a ticket for being on dbl yellow line even though they were inside a parking bay. the council hadn't painted them out after extending the bay. Now don't get me wrong I do not pay the fine all of the time only if I deserved to get fined. I hate having to pay for parking when I am only running into a shop for a few mins. I see it as just another way to extract money/taxes from the mororist. Road tax is bad enough. It's not even as if your car is safe in the car parks.

I would love if everyone started to do this and it became an unwritten rule for the motorist. It's also really nice to put a smile on peoples faces!