Parking

sogood

Given how frustrating it is to find a car taking up 1 1/2 parking spaces when you're looking for one, I wondered would it help if the ticket issuing machines had a little diagram printed on them, right in the line of sight, or by the section where your ticket comes out, showing the road markings and the two lines between which your car should sit. I notice that the markings are all coloured white, both the diagonal ones and the right angled ones etc. Maybe if the parking space proper were coloured yellow it would highlight the actual space? Maybe a little diagram etc. printed on the reverse of the ticket might help? I firmly believe that most people dont actually think about the right way to park and just see a "parking space" with no clear demarcation. It's one of my pet hates, as all it takes is for one driver to overlap, thus forcing everyone else that follows, to do the same. Thoughts?

coylemj

Up by the National Concert Hall in Earlsfort Tce the parking spots were single numbered rectangles and when you went to pay at the machine you had to get a ticket for the spot you were parked in e.g. slot no. 4 and the ticket on your windscreen had to match the spot you were parked in, otherwise you could get clamped.

Around places like Merrion Sq the slots are marked as singe spaces though I don't know what happens if some selfish idiot parks across two spots.

I think I understand the issue you're raising here, I've seen lots of cars parked bang in the centre of a two car rectangle capable of taking two inline cars simply because the owner doesn't want someone parking close to him and yet even though he's occupying two slots, he only pays for one.