How Safe Is The Drury Street Car Park?

Squidgy Black

Thinking of taking a spin into town tomorrow for a meeting up near Dame street and I'm wondering if any of you's have used the carpark?

It's not the most expensive of bikes, a Jupiter Utah, and I'll be locking it with a Kryptonite Series 2 and the flex cable for the wheels.

Anybody got any views or advice on the carpark, or any safer alternative spots?

Whitehawk

dont know it but if this is it http://www.dublincitycycling.ie/blog/index.php/2009/10/new-cycle-parking-facility-on-drury-street/!
id say its safe seen they say its under cctv etc

also came across this topic it may have some gd info in it tho not sure - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055704580

Doctor Bob

I've used it often enough, usually for an hour or two at a time, and I've never had any problems.

One or two posters here used to use it regularly and stopped (daragh?), perhaps because bikes left there every day for 8-10 hours get noticed. But the same would hold for any location, on-street or off. (Variety is the spice of bike parking as much as it is of life, you might say.)

Usually your bike would be fine at any of the racks on Dame Street too, but I believe they were all removed - with bikes still attached, which gave Mary Wilson cause for some mirth on Friday last :rolleyes: - for some celeb or other (I think it was the guy who won America's Got Talent, but I might have my facts wrong) who was doing a public appearance in College Green today.

monument

Doctor Bob wrote: »

Usually your bike would be fine at any of the racks on Dame Street too, but I believe they were all removed - with bikes still attached, which gave Mary Wilson cause for some mirth on Friday last :rolleyes: - for some celeb or other (I think it was the guy who won America's Got Talent, but I might have my facts wrong) who was doing a public appearance in College Green today.

The racks were back on the street on trucks this morning -- if anybody is missing their bike the racks and your bike should be back in the ground soon.

Whitehawk

monument wrote: »

The racks were back on the street on trucks this morning -- if anybody is missing their bike the racks and your bike should be back in the ground soon.

it would be funny if the randomly placed all bike racks back aka mixed them up from where they where taken from, we could have a hole thread on bike spoting on people trying to find where there bike ended up!

Doctor Bob

monument wrote: »

The racks were back on the street on trucks this morning -- if anybody is missing their bike the racks and your bike should be back in the ground soon.

Returning them is one thing. Taking them with no forewarning is almost unforgivable; actually, it's theft. It's not as if The President Of The World arrived with only 30 minutes' notice.

jkp

i'd recommend it, i've left my bike in drury street carpark plenty of times, even overnight, with no hassle.

Squidgy Black

Bike was fine, left it there for an hour or two, no complaints at all.

Was nice to see other higher end bikes rather than just a load of old beaters, gave a sense of security I guess.