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UCD Parking

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    Generally you can always get parking on the street across the bridge in Woodbine in Booterstown or in the estates at opposite the Clonskeagh gate at any time. Its only a 10 minute walk to the centre of the campus then. On the 3 occasions I had to drive in last year i didn;t even bother trying to get a space in UCD itself. People are just very lazy and want to park as close as possible in my experience.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    OSI wrote: »
    Or don't want to inconvenience people by parking right outside their houses.

    They're public roads, I don't see an issue with it. If you want a guaranteed empty road outside your house a private, gated community is your only solution really. If you're prepared to have the benefits of the council looking after your road surfacing and green spaces you have to take the bad aspects of it too. My two cents.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭Third_Echelon


    Not a student there, but I've been playing Tag Rugby on the GAA Astro pitch for the past few weeks on a Tuesday night. Games are usually on from 6 to 10 in the evenings and since the water tower area is closed, the marked car park just beside that has been full every night. People were just parking along the road from the Clonskeagh entrance along the foot/cycle path.

    Drove further down through the roundabout and parked in a pretty big car park just layed in stone. Sign said it was closing from 25th August though. Not sure why... but it was causing problems in the evenings.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭mumtoe&e


    How come the carpark at the water tower is closed? and will it be reopening anytime soon?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭Third_Echelon


    mumtoe&e wrote: »
    How come the carpark at the water tower is closed? and will it be reopening anytime soon?

    it had a load of construction equipment on it.. taken over by the builders it seems.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭mumtoe&e


    it had a load of construction equipment on it.. taken over by the builders it seems.

    Oh dear..... ah sure its great craic driving around in circles for hours looking for a spot.... cant wait! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 892 ✭✭✭stop


    mumtoe&e wrote: »
    How come the carpark at the water tower is closed? and will it be reopening anytime soon?
    They are laying tarmac on it. Maybe if less people who have no business in Belfield didn't park no campus there would be more spaces.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭qwert2


    Just an idea. Why don't the poor little rich kids leave their mini coopers and (runarounds bought by daddy for your 16th birthday) at home and take a dublin bus ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭antomorro-sei


    qwert2 wrote: »
    Just an idea. Why don't the poor little rich kids leave their mini coopers and (runarounds bought by daddy for your 16th birthday) at home and take a dublin bus ;)

    The amount of Mini's is unreal!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭n2o


    The amount of Mini's is unreal!

    Don't forget Golf GTIs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,790 ✭✭✭✭Paul Tergat


    p_larkin99 wrote: »
    Just on this. I PM'd Raphael and he said it was ok for to to just chuck up a follow up post to say I've 1 space in Roebuck Hill for rent for the year. It's underground secure parking (you'll get a buzzer for it). If anyone is actually interested chuck me a PM so we dont clog up this thread.

    Just bumping this as the space has become available again if anyone is struggling to get parking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    p_larkin99 wrote: »
    Just bumping this as the space has become available again if anyone is struggling to get parking.

    I'll send you a PM now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭B_Fanatic


    Hate to revive an old topic but I don't think this question justifies its own topic. With regards to parking for residences (Belgrove in particular), can any residence just drive in? I didn't inquire at the start of the year because I'm only doing my driving test Tuesday (Probably fail but I'm curious anyway) and am wondering:
    • Can I simply drive into residential parking and lay down in any of the parking spaces?
    • Have I to inform anyone?
    • If there are no parking spaces available within the residential complex can I park in the bigger car park outside for free?

    Thanks in advance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭geetar


    B_Fanatic wrote: »
    Hate to revive an old topic but I don't think this question justifies its own topic. With regards to parking for residences (Belgrove in particular), can any residence just drive in? I didn't inquire at the start of the year because I'm only doing my driving test Tuesday (Probably fail but I'm curious anyway) and am wondering:
    • Can I simply drive into residential parking and lay down in any of the parking spaces?
    • Have I to inform anyone?
    • If there are no parking spaces available within the residential complex can I park in the bigger car park outside for free?

    Thanks in advance.

    pretty sure youll need some sort of pass in the window otherwise youll get clamped


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭B_Fanatic


    geetar wrote: »
    pretty sure youll need some sort of pass in the window otherwise youll get clamped

    Darn. Do you know anything about my last question? People seem to mention free parking outside the residences?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    The way I see it if I get in early enough I get a space.

    If you don't get in early enough and dont get a space well tough luck and stop moaning about it.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The place badly needs a multi-storey car park. The public transport system to get to ucd is awful


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭B_Fanatic


    Lol, are people replying to the OP? My fault I guess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    AdamD wrote: »
    The place badly needs a multi-storey car park. The public transport system to get to ucd is awful

    Ya that's what they need. To take hundreds of thousands of euro away from the library and other education needs and plough it into an unnecessary multistory car park because some people are too lazy to cycle.

    *By the way I was being sarcastic


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Because everyone lives within cycling distance of UCD....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 892 ✭✭✭stop


    AdamD wrote: »
    The place badly needs a multi-storey car park. The public transport system to get to ucd is awful
    Its getting one, but there will be no net increase in the number of spaces, as per Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council & NTA planning restrictions.

    What UCD needs is people to get on the bus/bike charge everyone for parking. Dublin Bus also need to improve bus connections to the areas directly west of UCD, the 17 is unreliable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    AdamD wrote: »
    The public transport system to get to ucd is awful

    No it isn't. It has the 46a, 145, 39a, 84 etc and 2 and 3. to the front gate and the 11 and 11b to the rear. There's also Bus Eireann and AirCoach for logner distance commuters. The DART isn't unbelievably far away either, certainly walkable. To be honest it's pretty good.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    stop wrote: »
    Dublin Bus also need to improve bus connections to the areas directly west of UCD, the 17 is unreliable.

    Dublin Bus are fairly poor for west-east routes in south Dublin full stop, it isn't a UCD specific thing. The only one that I can think of apart from the 17 is the 75 from Dun Laoghaire to Tallaght.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The 17 is pretty unreliable :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭graduate


    There is still parking today. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44 badtinegirl


    Got parking today no worries. If only
    it could be like that evey day. Im not missing
    driving really slow behind people walking in the car parks
    hoping they are leaving.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭EmacB


    For some reason they also refuse to use new busses on the 17 route :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 george507


    Hope the car park in Blackrock can be solved as well


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    AdamD wrote: »
    Because everyone lives within cycling distance of UCD....

    So rather then dealing with the issue of those who live close to UCD and are easily within cycling distance you want to completely ignore the point by bringing up the argument "Not everyone can cycle". Well duh. No one's expecting people to cycle from Wicklow but an argument was used in one of the first posts in this thread that "I live 4 miles from UCD with bad bus connections" = I must have a car parking space. That's who should be cycling.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Cycle in the wind/rain/snow...rather not. Being serious btw.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    AdamD wrote: »
    The place badly needs a multi-storey car park.

    Pretty sure its on this thread somewhere, but engineering wise, the space required for such a venture would yield a minimal increase in car park spaces. I'd be against it for reasons of economic and for the absolute certainty they would charge for it use. People can barely park in unmarked spaces, imagine the carnage in a tight multistory car park?

    Thats another thing, if you can't park, get out. Seriously. The standard of driving, especially in the gravel car park near Quinn is ridiculous. We lose 10 to 20 spaces each day by people leaving about 5 ft between cars or parking a the weirdest angles imaginable.


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