Student Parking??

Anna88 · 18-09-2009 5:35pm #1

Do students have to pay for parking??

An Citeog · 18-09-2009 6:20pm

There are 2 free car parks for students, one at the back of the helix (Collins Ave entrance) and the other behind the library (Ballymun Road entrance). If you're in before 9, you shouldn't have many problems getting parking. Otherwise, it's hit or miss. If you can't get parking there, you can park in the multistory which is €7 for 6 day tickets.

Doyle_G · 18-09-2009 9:53pm

An Citeog wrote: »

one at the back of the helix (Collins Ave entrance)

Is that the one beside the VHI clinic and the nursing building? How do you get through the barriers?

An Citeog · 19-09-2009 12:04am

Doyle_G wrote: »

Is that the one beside the VHI clinic and the nursing building? How do you get through the barriers?

No, that's the other one. You have to go through the Ballymun Road entrance and around the back of the library to get into that one. For the first one, just drive in the Collins Ave entrance, follow the bend to the right, past the multistory and past the Helix and you'll see it straight ahead of you. You need a student card to get in and out though.

JoePie · 19-09-2009 2:06am

An Citeog wrote: »

If you're in before 9, you shouldn't have many problems getting parking.

No way. You need to be in before 8.30am, or you're out parking in the housing estates.

TirNaNog. · 19-09-2009 2:13pm

Theres a housing estate right beside the ballymun rd entrance to DCU,its a safe enough area to park in,,,turn in by the big church ...1 minute walk to DCU

dollybird09 · 19-09-2009 3:29pm

Last year I parked in a housing estate across from Collins Avenue entrance. Lots of student cars parked in there, its the first left after DCU as you head towards Swords Road. Residents don't like it, but there are no yellow lines so you can park there as you please cos it's a public road.

beanyb · 29-09-2009 9:55am

Where exactly do you get the €7 for 6 days tickets for the multi-story?

pathway33 · 29-09-2009 2:34pm

beanyb wrote: »

Where exactly do you get the €7 for 6 days tickets for the multi-story?

I've heard it's at the ticket office on the pedestrian exit out of the multi-storey but never did it myself so that's second hand info

joey54 · 29-09-2009 5:04pm

pathway33 wrote: »

I've heard it's at the ticket office on the pedestrian exit out of the multi-storey but never did it myself so that's second hand info

Yes that's the place.

YourName · 29-09-2009 9:54pm

Can you get to the car park behind the helix from the ballymun road, theres a road that leads to the car park but theres a barier, can you swipe your student card there to open it

joey54 · 29-09-2009 10:43pm

YourName wrote: »

Can you get to the car park behind the helix from the ballymun road, theres a road that leads to the car park but theres a barier, can you swipe your student card there to open it

As far as I know you can't, you have to access it from the collins avenue entrance.

artanevilla · 30-09-2009 12:04pm

I've had great fun in the morning when there's two cars driving around the free car park with no spaces, a car pull out and then racing the other car into it.

sunnyjim · 30-09-2009 12:07pm

artanevilla wrote: »

I've had great fun in the morning when there's two cars driving around the free car park with no spaces, a car pull out and then racing the other car into it.

Wow wow wow... You're from Artane, but you drive in?!

artanevilla · 30-09-2009 12:15pm

sunnyjim wrote: »

Wow wow wow... You're from Artane, but you drive in?!

Yes, handy if I've 3 hours between lectures I can pop home if I want.

VinnyTGM · 30-09-2009 1:52pm

I might be missing something but, why is there barrier's seperating the Collin's avenue entrance from the Ballymun entrance?

artanevilla · 30-09-2009 2:15pm

VinnyTGM wrote: »

I might be missing something but, why is there barrier's seperating the Collin's avenue entrance from the Ballymun entrance?

I'd say it's to both stop people parking at the VHI Clinic and stop traffic driving across a mainly pedestrian area.

YourName · 30-09-2009 2:22pm

But theres another road at the back of the canteen that has a barrier on it, if you could get through that you would go into the car park at the back of the helix from the ballymun road. When you come in the entrance from Ballymun Road and head straight towards the Sports Centre, on your left hand side on that road there is a little road off it, and that brings you straight to the roundabout at the back of the Henry Gratten Building, this is where the barrier is and I just wonder if students can get through it.

joey54 · 30-09-2009 4:39pm

I presume it its to stop normal cars using it as a short cut, similar to the way UCD closes barriers at certain times.

markpb · 30-09-2009 5:01pm

VinnyTGM wrote: »

I might be missing something but, why is there barrier's seperating the Collin's avenue entrance from the Ballymun entrance?

The traffic outside DCU used to be really bad in the mornings so people were using DCU as a rat run to get from Collins Avenue to the Ballymun road. Even the hideous metal speed ramps weren't helping so the Gardai asked DCU to close the road before someone was hit. There's an intercom on it (I think) so you can ring security and ask them to open it but I guess that's just for deliveries or so the president's visitors can get to the front of the house.

There's a peak-hour restriction on left turns into Albert College estate for the same reason.

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