Parking Availability for a full day in Temple Road, Blackrock

bmathew

Hi,

Does anyone know if a full day parking space is available in and around temple road, stillorgan. There are street parking available, but those are only for three hours maximum. I would like to have a full day parking space because my company doesnt have parking and I dont want to come out every three hours to change the tickets. Also it would be too expensive. Hope somebody can help me out

coylemj

I don't know of any privately run car park in the area, you could check out the following...

1. Car park beside Zurich on the junction of Temple Road and Carysfort Ave.

2. Frascati shopping centre car park.

There are two seperate car parks close to Blackrock Dart station, one directly outside the station and the other up the hill on the corner, closer to the main st. The Irish Rail website says there is no parking available at the station so neither of the car parks is run by them. Neither car park has a barrier so they must be pay & display.

the groutch

frascati centre is 3 hour limit, and they do clamp

I'll check out that other one on Carysfort over the weekend, see does it allow all day parking (although it always seems to be full)

schemingbohemia

Your best bet, though it will involve a walk, might be to park in Salthill/Monkstown Dart Station as you can park all day for €3 or €2 (if you use parkbytext).

Or you could annoy the locals by parking for free in one of the housing estates off Monkstown Road though these spaces tend to be gone fairly early in the morning.

Is public transport not an option for you to get to work?

bmathew

Hi,

Thank you all for the replies... I live at swords and my work gets over by 5 pm. I have to pick my child from Creche by max 6 pm, so using dublin bus wont help me. I was checking the dart options, but that also has the parking problem as most of the car parks seem to be full by 7 am. But I think dart would be the best option. Thank you once again...

schemingbohemia

Booterstown would be another option, you could wait on a 4 or 7 or just walk it.

Salthill would occasionally have parking spots at 9ish but certainly 2 years ago when I lived there it wasn't full much before 9.

coylemj

The small car park directly outside Blackrock Dart station is run by the co. co. (hence the Irish Rail website says there is no parking - not true!) and you can park all day for €6 but as you say it's probably full pretty early.

The car park further up the hill at the back of the Wicked Wolf is three hours max.

An alternative is the large car park at Booterstown Dart station, it would be easy to get into in the morning since you'd be driving against the traffic and the station is on the left, you could then catch a southbound train to Blackrock.

Victor

bmathew wrote: »

Thank you all for the replies... I live at swords and my work gets over by 5 pm. I have to pick my child from Creche by max 6 pm, so using dublin bus wont help me. I was checking the dart options, but that also has the parking problem as most of the car parks seem to be full by 7 am. But I think dart would be the best option.

You could get the Dublin Bus route 102 from Swords to Malahide, DART to Blackrock. Alternatively, park in Malahide (pay, but check the council car park across the road), Portmarknock (pay) or Clongriffen (free).

the groutch

coylemj wrote: »

An alternative is the large car park at Booterstown Dart station, it would be easy to get into in the morning since you'd be driving against the traffic and the station is on the left, you could then catch a southbound train to Blackrock.

get a train from Booterstown to Blackrock?

REALLY?!

coylemj

the groutch wrote: »

get a train from Booterstown to Blackrock?

REALLY?!

Two minutes on the Dart, why not?

Driving from your home to a train station and getting a train to close to where you work may sound revolutionary but lots of people do it.

the groutch

coylemj wrote: »

Two minutes on the Dart, why not?

and ten minutes waiting for said Dart, in which time you could have walked up to Blackrock without wasting an extra €1.50

coylemj

the groutch wrote: »

and ten minutes waiting for said Dart, in which time you could have walked up to Blackrock without wasting an extra €1.50

He can use one of the real time apps for Android or iPhone. If there's a train in the next 5 minutes, get it, otherwise walk.

And he said 'Temple Road' so he may find that Seapoint Dart station is closer to his place of work than Blackrock meaning it would be a fair walk from Booterstown.