Traffic Wardens

BRIAN1956 · 16-01-2008 2:18pm #1

Hi all,

Just to let you know traffic wardens are putting parking tickets on cars parked on Collins Ave on the other side of the bollards at the Estates Office.

Hauk · 16-01-2008 2:23pm

Yeah, I've seen a few cars in the last few years that got clamped.

Good info,

Hauk

Mad_Max · 16-01-2008 10:27pm

I've often thought about parking there.

Is there any double yellow lines? what is the reason for the fines/clamps?

rocky25 · 17-01-2008 9:41am

Apparently it's considered to be blocking the footpath.
I was talking to Brian1956 and he went to the Garda station to question the matter and thats what they said.

Even though the stickers say Garda on them it's the traffic wardens who are putting them on the cars.
I saw two cars with the stickers on them yesterday.

I think it's a €40 fine, but no penalty points on your license.

Mad_Max · 17-01-2008 1:19pm

Money making as always. Theres a similar parking situation where i live where a private clamper has taken it upon himself to make shocking amounts of money by clamping everything in sight.

Bit strange parking wardens putting garda stickers isnt it.

Kenny_D · 17-01-2008 1:39pm

I saw those two ticketed cars parked there yesterday. The parking in DCU for students is terrible these days so its lousy to be doing stuff like that. And they closed the overflow car park yesterday as well. Half the time the free student car park is out of service and you cant go into it

GavMan · 18-01-2008 2:14pm

Sure why would you let them in the free car park when you can get them to pay in the multi Story.
As the addage goes, nothing in the DCU that makes money is ever allowed to break

Mad_Max · 18-01-2008 6:29pm

Too true gav!! The barriers to the free carpark is constantly out of service but they also bust their asses to fix the multistorey one if it goes down.

Wonder how much longer we'll get away with the overflow carpark.

cowan · 19-01-2008 5:49pm

Come on the multi story is only 7 spondoolies a week, it hardly gonna break the bloody bank.

Mad_Max · 19-01-2008 6:02pm

but why pay the 7 when theres the FREE overflow beside it

cowan · 19-01-2008 6:28pm

Because the free overflow doesnt work all the time.

GavMan · 19-01-2008 9:37pm

cowan wrote: »

Because the free overflow doesnt work all the time.

im pretty sure they can take them out of service remotely

cowan · 19-01-2008 10:03pm

Im pretty sure they do, DCU: If it ain't broke, break it

Ace2007 · 19-01-2008 10:39pm

but can't you drive around the barrier in the free car park - i remember a guy in my class couldn't get the barrier up when he was leaving and said that he had to drive around the barrier - which was actually quite easy he said...

steveland? · 20-01-2008 12:41am

GavMan wrote: »

Sure why would you let them in the free car park when you can get them to pay in the multi Story.
As the addage goes, nothing in the DCU that makes money is ever allowed to break

My favourite of their little schemes was the 15 minutes free parking you got in the multi-story a few years back...

The entrance ticket machine clock was 15 minutes slow and the pay point was on time so if you went in, went straight to the pay point and put your ticket in the machine automatically it'd say you'd been in there over the 15 minutes...

Does it still do that?

GavMan · 20-01-2008 7:13pm

steveland? wrote: »

My favourite of their little schemes was the 15 minutes free parking you got in the multi-story a few years back...

The entrance ticket machine clock was 15 minutes slow and the pay point was on time so if you went in, went straight to the pay point and put your ticket in the machine automatically it'd say you'd been in there over the 15 minutes...

Does it still do that?

No

FedFrank2 · 03-02-2008 6:50pm

Ace2007 wrote: »

but can't you drive around the barrier in the free car park - i remember a guy in my class couldn't get the barrier up when he was leaving and said that he had to drive around the barrier - which was actually quite easy he said...

I did that about a year ago donal and got clamped. in the car park. in a parking space. they do look at those cameras now and then

cognos · 04-02-2008 8:40pm

cowan wrote: »

Because the free overflow doesnt work all the time.

When the free car park is full, they (whoever deals with parking in dcu) close it. If you spot a space in there after it has been closed you can press the help button at the entrance barrier and tell them where it is, they will have a look on the camera and let you in. I assume its just to stop people parking in places other than marked out spaces in there when they go in and find that its full.

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