Crazy woman attacked me for parking

Red Alert

Just a heads up to anyone who parks in Woodbine Road that there's at least one crazy resident there. She decided to have a go at me this morning. I was parked legally as the rules of the road say: I was not obstructing a driveway on the left, not opposite a driveway on the right and not encroaching on the footpath. She roared out the window of a kids-laden SUV to "go and park in UCD". I just yelled back at her that she should watch the road and not be roaring at pedestrians. Basically just reminding everyone that it's a public road and as long as the laughable situation about parking in UCD persists, you've a perfect right to park there once you're within the law. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

RandolphEsq

pfff women

Riamfada

she was probably just frustrated because she got a little lost.

Dr Strange

I'd say she fancied you. Nowadays, it's a bit tricky reading the signs correctly.

Riamfada

was she a milf?

Chet T16

Can't see why you wouldn't want to park in UCD

Riamfada

Hemmed in by two completely **** cars. Im sure you have tried to get out of that carpark only to find that someone has parked across the entrance?

delta_bravo

Grimes wrote: »

Hemmed in by two completely **** cars. Im sure you have tried to get out of that carpark only to find that someone has parked across the entrance?

Its not as bad as the unpaved car park near the water tower. Especially when it floods and people block about 30 cars in as they park across that bit between the overflow car park and the main unpaved car park near the water tower.

Tom1991

Parking is nothing short of a disaster in ucd after half 9 the rodeo starts wit people goin crazy for parking .Is there any plans for parking to be improved ?

Chucky the tree

OP should get a job with a tabloid, he has the skills.

Gingy

With builders dying for work these days, UCD should take advantage of cheaper rates and build a multi-story car park. Nothing huge, even 2 stories on top of the one behind Quinn, would drastically reduce the carnage in the mornings.

RandolphEsq

Gingy wrote: »

With builders dying for work these days, UCD should take advantage of cheaper rates and build a multi-story car park. Nothing huge, even 2 stories on top of the one behind Quinn, would drastically reduce the carnage in the mornings.

Underground is the best thing for carparks

Frisbee

Or just pave and mark the ones they already have...

Red Alert

They should do a multi-storey AND have a paid-for permit system with barriers (like they used to have!).

graduate

UCD cannot get planning permission to have extra parking spaces. When you next meet a local resident suggest that they have their local councillor address this problem.

Zuffer

You would need a lot more parking spaces in UCD before it became comfortable. Another story or two on an existing carpark wouldn't be enough. If there were more spaces available, some people who currently don't park there would switch over to parking. You would not see much improvement.

Charging would probably help, in that if you were willing to pay the charge you'd be more likely to get a spot without driving around for ages.

antomorro-sei

Parking is a farce in UCD. I got my passenger door smashed in one day ffs. Jokeshop.

Frisbee

Zuffer wrote: »

get a spot without driving around for ages.

This does my head in.

If you've got a lecture at 11 say you still have to go in as though you have a lecture at ten or you haven't a hope of getting parking.

The amount of times I've gone in for a lecture at 11 or 12, not got parking and just gone home is ridiculous.

delta_bravo

Frisbee wrote: »

This does my head in.

If you've got a lecture at 11 say you still have to go in as though you have a lecture at ten or you haven't a hope of getting parking.

The amount of times I've gone in for a lecture at 11 or 12, not got parking and just gone home is ridiculous.

If I cant find a spot in UCD I get a spot in the area the OP mentioned or the area near Bird Avenue. Its a 10-15 minute walk but means you dont get to miss a lecture

Cerocco

Frisbee wrote: »

This does my head in.

If you've got a lecture at 11 say you still have to go in as though you have a lecture at ten or you haven't a hope of getting parking.

The amount of times I've gone in for a lecture at 11 or 12, not got parking and just gone home is ridiculous.

Back when I was a student (only 10 years ago) we were lucky enough to scratch enough money together to have a pint. Ah you students with cars:D:D

Pandoras Twist

They should at least introduce a card scanning system so that it's just students and staff that can use it.

Annoys the hell out of me when people drive in from the likes of Stillorgan. 46A comes once every 5 seconds and gets you in in no time. Youve no need to drive!

Riamfada

Cerocco wrote: »

Back when I was a student (only 10 years ago) we were lucky enough to scratch enough money together to have a pint. Ah you students with cars:D:D

Did you also go to school in your bare feet and get coal for christmas ? :D

dyl10

I don't blame her, I'd get pretty pissed off if a **** load of students parked up and down the road outside my house...

Notorious

dyl10 wrote: »

I don't blame her, I'd get pretty pissed off if a **** load of students parked up and down the road outside my house...

Your house is pretty close to a bus stop, isn't it?

Ado86

I can understand where this woman is coming from, I live beside a train station in a commuter area for Dublin. And it is SOOO annoyoing having people parking outside your house, constantly.
People park on our road every day and its a cul-de-sac, most people do regard the rules of the road and dont obstruct the driveways. But then there are also lots of idiots who dont give a f**k about the residents.
Legally they are entitled to park there, so long as it is legally parked and they have paid their road tax !
There are also times when people are not technically obstructing your driveway but make it very awkward for maneuvering and getting in and out of your driveway.

stop

I was cycling in past the slip road/flyover around half seven this morning, the residential road paralel to the slip road was full of parked cars, while the car parks in ucd were still empty(more less).

Looks to me like non ucd folk are doing most of the parking there.

Riamfada

stop wrote: »

I was cycling in past the slip road/flyover around half seven this morning, the residential road paralel to the slip road was full of parked cars, while the car parks in ucd were still empty(more less).

Looks to me like non ucd folk are doing most of the parking there.

Park and royde?

stop

Grimes wrote: »

Park and royde?

Probably...

Riamfada

Seriously thought if you buy a house close to a train station or university prepare to have to deal with parking on your street. As for people blocking driveways thats because people are generally tools.

Tayto2000

Grimes wrote: »

Did you also go to school in your bare feet and get coal for christmas ? :D

Wow, you should take that act on the road! What's your comment on her point?

ironclaw

dyl10 wrote: »

I don't blame her, I'd get pretty pissed off if a **** load of students parked up and down the road outside my house...

Have to agree. Its all well and good if you don't live there. The parking in UCD is a mess but it doesn't mean we should all go out into the local community and block up local roads. If you park on the road beside a house you should be around to move your car if needs be. Its common decency regardless if your parked "legally" etc.

What if, extreme situation, but your car had to be moved for emergency access etc? Oh wait, the owner is 15 mins away in UCD and non-resident. Insurance won't cover you if the fire brigade have to move your car. And by move its more of a cut the door off type of maneuver. :pac:

delta_bravo

ironclaw wrote: »

Have to agree. Its all well and good if you don't live there. The parking in UCD is a mess but it doesn't mean we should all go out into the local community and block up local roads. If you park on the road beside a house you should be around to move your car if needs be. Its common decency regardless if your parked "legally" etc.

What if, extreme situation, but your car had to be moved for emergency access etc? Oh wait, the owner is 15 mins away in UCD and non-resident. Insurance won't cover you if the fire brigade have to move your car. And by move its more of a cut the door off type of maneuver. :pac:

So are you suggesting people stand near their vehicles if they are parking off campus? Your analogy makes no sense. What about residents that park on street and work in town? I'm not really sure how cutting a door off a car would aid an emergency service either.

You will probably end up as the next Minister for Transport with thinking like that.

ironclaw

delta_bravo wrote: »

So are you suggesting people stand near their vehicles if they are parking off campus? Your analogy makes no sense. What about residents that park on street and work in town? I'm not really sure how cutting a door off a car would aid an emergency service either.

You will probably end up as the next Minister for Transport with thinking like that.

No, I ain't that stupid to say people should stand by their cars. :pac: I don't live in an estate but many of my mates do. As a result I hear all the story's of cars left in estates all day much to the annoyance of the residents. Parked legally or not, your still not a resident and don't really have a right to just park your car there. I know you don't automatically have the legal right to any parking on the road outside your house, but it is normally common decency to let those spaces be for residents. "I don't live here but my lecture is calling, so that gives me an excuse" isn't really a great attitude.

But saying that, if I was absolutely with no other option and something major depended on it, I would probably park there. But not all day.

I'm not really sure how cutting a door off a car would aid an emergency service either.

Common fire brigade practice to move a car etc if needed (Guidelines in place for it, not sure what they are as I'm on the medical side of emergency things). There are some photo's of it occurring at the Grange Pub in Killiney when it went up a few months back. Insurance won't cover it.

You will probably end up as the next Minister for Transport with thinking like that.

Not likely. The "transport" system in this country is a joke and would need someone on par with Jesus to set it right.

stovelid

Maybe people who lie on the south-side of the city could try getting a bus or cycling to college?

spurious

ironclaw wrote: »

What if, extreme situation, but your car had to be moved for emergency access etc?

It doesn't need an extreme situation. If a resident rings and says a car is blocking emergency access it will be moved. Normal parking should not come not this category though.
If there is an issue the residents should just ask for parking permits and paid parking to be introduced on their street.

Ado86

All they have to do is smash your window and let off the handbrake.

ironclaw

betafrog wrote: »

Wow, that's not a sweeping statement at all..

I live on the south side of the city.. Quite close to UCD in fact. But to walk it would take over an hour and half, it would take 45 minutes to cycle (a LOT of uphill cycling involved) and thanks to the wonders of Dublin Bus there is no direct bus from my house to UCD meaning it takes an hour and a half to bus it to UCD. And yet I can drive there in less than 10 minutes.Get off your high horse and try to remember that not everyone has life as easy as you.

Very true. The 46A corridor is really the only decent bus route to UCD. Everything else is too infrequent or is crowded by the time it comes along. On the flipside however I know people who drive from Stillorgan, so those of us without a viable public transport method of getting to UCD find it hard to get parking.

Accomodation is distance / means tested, why isn't parking?

jhegarty

ironclaw wrote: »

What if, extreme situation, but your car had to be moved for emergency access etc? Oh wait, the owner is 15 mins away in UCD and non-resident. Insurance won't cover you if the fire brigade have to move your car. And by move its more of a cut the door off type of maneuver. :pac:

And you are always within 15 minutes of your car ? :rolleyes:

Sleipnir

betafrog wrote: »

there is no direct bus from my house to UCD meaning it takes an hour and a half to bus it to UCD.

Should there be a direct route from everybody's house to UCD or something?
All roads lead to UCD!

stovelid

betafrog wrote: »

Get off your high horse and try to remember that not everyone has life as easy as you.

LOL, I never had a car when I was in college that's for sure. Hardly any students did in this country before it went to hell in a hand basket.

This thread should be put in a time capsule as a perfect marker of fin de siècle Ireland.

RandolphEsq

stovelid wrote: »

Maybe people who lie on the south-side of the city could try getting a bus or cycling to college?

That would be everyone in UCD. Northsiders go to DCU

Fuzzy_Dunlop

betafrog wrote: »

Wow, that's not a sweeping statement at all..

I live on the south side of the city.. Quite close to UCD in fact. But to walk it would take over an hour and half, it would take 45 minutes to cycle (a LOT of uphill cycling involved) and thanks to the wonders of Dublin Bus there is no direct bus from my house to UCD meaning it takes an hour and a half to bus it to UCD. And yet I can drive there in less than 10 minutes.Get off your high horse and try to remember that not everyone has life as easy as you.

How on earth can it take you 45 minutes to cycle from balinteer and yet be less than 10 minutes in a car? I live in Rathfarnham and it takes me 20 minutes at average pace to cycle in. If I decide to drive in, I'd say the quickest I'd ever get in would be 10/15 minutes, and that's with little or no traffic. At rush hour you have to leave about an hour early if you want to get in for 9, and then there's no parking after that if you're in any later(which leads us right back to the OP:P)

antomorro-sei

I live on the southside, but it'd take me ages to cycle. There's also no buses from Bluebell to UCD. So drive it is

goose2005

No-one has a special right to park on a public road. If residents want a guaranteed parking space, they can get a house with a garage or a driveway big enough to park in. Or buy 4 sq m of land outside of their house

Mushy

People along one road I walk along place cones just outside their houses to stop people parking there for the Luas. Other than that, its riddled with cars.

Tayto2000

betafrog wrote: »

OK, I'll change that to, there's no bus within a 20 minute walk that would get me directly to UCD.

Hence why I drive.

Hills. Steep steep hills.

There's one hill, and you're going down it on the way in! BTW, the 17 route is about 5 minutes from ballinteer as well.

Look, you can just say "I like driving my car even for a short commute and I'm willing to put up with the problems associated with it" but it means you don't get to bitch about parking or traffic.

Mushy wrote: »

People along one road I walk along place cones just outside their houses to stop people parking there for the Luas. Other than that, its riddled with cars.

If I drove daily and was parking my car there, unless it was a marked private space or double yellows, someone would be getting their cone dropped back into their front garden for them. Same crap as people 'keeping' spaces for their mates here by standing in them.

Also, a couple of the printable notices from here (probably) wouldn't help, but would be pretty amusing.

captainscarlet

Dont need more parking spaces. All that needs to happen is that student card holders and university staff park free while the rest of the southside b*stards, who take advantage of the free parking and who can make it to UCD before 8 o clock, have to pay for a day pass.

Blut2

A multistory carpark (possibly in the gravel carpark behind Quinn) combined with a student/staff verification system would make parking far less problematic. Just require all cars parked on campus to have a sticker in the windshield that can be gotten from admin for say a 20e a year fee for all staff/students.

As it stands the use of all the car parks down near the main gate is a complete joke. Ive gone in at weekends to find the carparks 90% full, definitely not full of students. Most of my ex-student friends (and myself) all regularly park in UCD when we're going on holiday and then catch the aircoach in from there, leaving our cars parked in spaces for days or weeks at a time.

Riamfada

Blut2 wrote: »

As it stands the use of all the car parks down near the main gate is a complete joke. Ive gone in at weekends to find the carparks 90% full, definitely not full of students.

You do know research and experiments and actual work get done here? They even have the National Center for Infections beside the lake. Its not all about the arts modules

Tayto2000

Grimes wrote: »

You do know research and experiments and actual work get done here? They even have the National Center for Infections beside the lake. Its not all about the arts modules

And of course most of the playing surfaces on campus are near those carparks as well... Sports centre are mad keen to get people in to pay to play.

stop

don't forget the glee club.. they're in this weekend too