Pay and Display street change

cormie

Hi,
Just curious about this, today I Paid and Displayed in 1 street and was finished much quicker than anticipated doing what I was doing, then I went to another street and the original ticket still had about 2 hours left on it. Is it necessary to buy a ticket for each new street or if the original ticket hasn't expired, is it still valid even if the street name printed on it is different to that of the street you're parked on?

Any feedback appreciated

robbie_998

its good to keep using AFAIK.

i mean if there is a ticket machine out of order they tell you to go to the next nearest one (which could be ages away)

so yeah i'd do it

manc

it depends where you are, in Dublin City the areas are colour coded and you can move between streets in the same colour but not different colours, as the price varies.

Everywhere else in the country probably doesn't have the colour schemes so you can move between streets in those towns.

cormie

Colour coded? Really? Never noticed that Say you pay the highest price, which I think is €2.90, would that not do for everywhere else?

dologhli

cormie wrote: »

Colour coded? Really? Never noticed that Say you pay the highest price, which I think is €2.90, would that not do for everywhere else?

Yep, it would.

If you still have time left on your ticket you can use it elsewhere (provided you do not park in a more expensive zone).

says http://www.dublincity.ie/RoadsandTraffic/Parking/Pages/PayandDisplay.aspx

cormie

That's great thanks very much! That's good new for all I guess

snappieT

The signs all have a strip at the bottom indicating the zone you are in. For example, this one is the yellow zone.


The zone order is:
* Very high demand zone (Yellow): €2.90 per hour
* High demand zone (Red): €2.40 per hour
* High demand zone - Sundays (White): €1.40 per hour on Sunday
* Medium demand zone (Green): €1.60 per hour
* Low demand zone (Orange): €1.00 per hour
* Suburban villages (Blue): 60c per hour

(This I really don't like, it seems to me that a better colour scheme could have been used - surely red should be highest. They should probably all be numbered too - who is going to know in practice that they can park in an orange zone with a green ticket, but not a blue one?)

Mrs OBumble

Has the designer of this grand scheme never heard of colour-blindness?

(and before ye ask, yes, some people who are can drive: they just need to be able to tell what light it what, based on the intensity of the light)

Victor

cormie wrote: »

Colour coded? Really? Never noticed that Say you pay the highest price, which I think is €2.90, would that not do for everywhere else?

Will you go get yourself a copy of each of the bye-laws? :pac:

See map here for the zones. http://www.dublincity.ie/RoadsandTraffic/Parking/Documents/rt2851_07b_Parking_Zones_and_Tariffs%5B1%5D.pdf

snappieT wrote: »

(This I really don't like, it seems to me that a better colour scheme could have been used - surely red should be highest. They should probably all be numbered too - who is going to know in practice that they can park in an orange zone with a green ticket, but not a blue one?)

The reason Yellow than Red is more expensive is because the zones were re-worked a few years ago.

JustMary wrote: »

Has the designer of this grand scheme never heard of colour-blindness?

Council officials? Hahaahhahah. In fairness, the zones have a monetary value associated with the cost of parking, so that is one way around it.

Neonjack

I know that in Clonmel, you can't interchange tickets when you move between zones. They're not colour coded there, but named. If you move your car from one zone to another, you have to buy another ticket. It's daylight robbery.

Victor

The 2003 and 2009 zones.

cormie

Looks like there's too many byelaws to keep track of :P

Thanks again for the replies

SeanW

snappieT wrote: »

The zone order is:
* Very high demand zone (Yellow): €2.90 per hour
* High demand zone (Red): €2.40 per hour
* High demand zone - Sundays (White): €1.40 per hour on Sunday
* Medium demand zone (Green): €1.60 per hour
* Low demand zone (Orange): €1.00 per hour
* Suburban villages (Blue): 60c per hour

Talk about counter-intuitive. What would have been wrong with just plain numbers, 1-6, or A-F, or even a slidng scale of colours?