Where would I find free parking in the Dun Laoghaire area?

vard

Hi guys,

Hope this is the right place for this.

I'm currently racking the mildly significant cost of taking the dart regularly to Dun Laoghaire.

I don't drive as the car park prices are largely extortionate, and I don't know of anywhere nearby where I can avail of free parking.

Is there anywhere at all? Or has every bit of free space been jumped upon by pay and displays? I don't mind having to walk 10-20 minutes or so to and from the car, so if anyone has any advice or could help me I'd really appreciate it.

puzzle factory

stick an "i love phil hogan and i love the household charge" on it and just abandon it anywhere, apperently most of em paid it, might actually take up begging there

eth0

puzzle factory wrote: »

stick an "i love phil hogan and i love the household charge" on it and just abandon it anywhere, apperently most of em paid it, might actually take up begging there

best post I seen all day. Dun Laoighaire-rathdown has 60%+ compliance rate while only 30% in Donegal, some people just love being up to date with obeying the latest laws and having someone to tell them what to do.

puzzle factory

eth0 wrote: »

best post I seen all day. Dun Laoighaire-rathdown has 60%+ compliance rate while only 30% in Donegal, some people just love being up to date with obeying the latest laws and having someone to tell them what to do.

all good and all, but our OP is being let down, throw the car up on done deal for a swap for a firebrigead or an ole gardai car and the islands yours my new friend.

eth0

puzzle factory wrote: »

all good and all, but our OP is being let down, throw the car up on done deal for a swap for a firebrigead or an ole gardai car and the islands yours my new friend.

Serious answer : Cross Avenue, by the Seat dealer. Place be packed in the evening but you might get a space there or around that general area anyway

vard

eth0 wrote: »

Serious answer : Cross Avenue, by the Seat dealer. Place be packed in the evening but you might get a space there or around that general area anyway

Cheers for the help! Had a look on google maps, found one or two little residential streets around the area that should do the trick if there's nothing there.

eth0

Mind the fella with the cones outside his house if u go there. I know he is wrong and being territorial about 'his' space by putting cones in it preventing people from parking there. If youre daring you can feicc them out the way and park there anyway but probably not worth the trouble

Anan1

eth0 wrote: »

best post I seen all day. Dun Laoighaire-rathdown has 60%+ compliance rate while only 30% in Donegal, some people just love being up to date with obeying the latest laws and having someone to tell them what to do.

Nothing new there, Dún Laoghaire has always been 20 or so years less backward than the rest of the country on social issues.

@OP - Be careful where you park, the place is saturated with wardens.

eth0

Anan1 wrote: »

Nothing new there, Dún Laoghaire has always been 20 or so years less backward than the rest of the country on social issues.

@OP - Be careful where you park, the place is saturated with wardens.

Paying some silly tax without putting up a struggle does nothing to make you 'less backward' just more of a compliant sheep whose easy to boss around.

Did you feel left out because you werent getting a 500e+ annual bill from the government when the rest of europe were getting them?

alexlyons

behind the west pier, the raised car park there. its €3.60 a day so not bad if free spaces are gone anywhere else.

Its grand by day, by night I wouldn't leave my car there, very very dark and there can be a few undesirables.

Very safe by day, loads of activity and its used quite a bit. Been using it for 5 years and never even heard of an issue.

Anan1

eth0 wrote: »

Paying some silly tax without putting up a struggle does nothing to make you 'less backward' just more of a compliant sheep whose easy to boss around.

Did you feel left out because you werent getting a 500e+ annual bill from the government when the rest of europe were getting them?

Blah blah blah, standard-issue working class chip on the shoulder mé féiner bull****. You must really miss the 1980s, when everyone in this country looked after number one. Enjoy your late payment fees.

eth0

Anan1 wrote: »

Blah blah blah, standard-issue working class chip on the shoulder mé féiner bull****. You must really miss the 1980s, when everyone in this country looked after number one. Enjoy your late payment fees.

You couldn't come up with a real reason why this bullsh1t tax makes you somehow 'less backward' than everyone else so you just decide to have a random dig at me?

You're constantly taking the side of the government, the clampers, any sort of authority that makes life more difficult for the ordinary person. why? you must really crave authority telling you what to do for some reason

Sonnenblumen

vard wrote: »

Hi guys,

Hope this is the right place for this.

I'm currently racking the mildly significant cost of taking the dart regularly to Dun Laoghaire.

I don't drive as the car park prices are largely extortionate, and I don't know of anywhere nearby where I can avail of free parking.

Is there anywhere at all? Or has every bit of free space been jumped upon by pay and displays? I don't mind having to walk 10-20 minutes or so to and from the car, so if anyone has any advice or could help me I'd really appreciate it.

Am I getting this right? Working but too broke to afford/pay regular car parking fees (which another poster has indicated are available for € 3.50/day), but instead want to locate free off-street parking space outside someone's home / private house to use as your own free all day office parking space?

I would suggest you re-consider your tactics, I doubt few locals anywhere would welcome this type of plague parking?

eth0

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

Am I getting this right? Working but too broke to afford/pay regular car parking fees (which another poster has indicated are available for € 3.50/day), but instead want to locate free off-street parking space outside someone's home / private house to use as your own free all day office parking space?

I would suggest you re-consider your tactics, I doubt few locals anywhere would welcome this type of plague parking?

Twas only a matter of time before someone like you come along to slate the OP for how dare he want a free parking space. Pay parking is a plague and a nuisance to everyone except the councils who are hungry for more money to waste on useless pet projects such as removing donuts from the road and what have you.

During the day there is usually a good amount of free spaces in the area I suggested. Its just during the night when people come home that things get busy.

Sonnenblumen

eth0 wrote: »

Twas only a matter of time before someone like you come along to slate the OP for how dare he want a free parking space. Pay parking is a plague and a nuisance to everyone except the councils who are hungry for more money to waste on useless pet projects such as removing donuts from the road and what have you.

During the day there is usually a good amount of free spaces in the area I suggested. Its just during the night when people come home that things get busy.

If only you could read better and had a better understanding.:(

"Pay parking is a plague" - at least it protects local communities from the plague of indiscriminate car parking penny pinching assholes who think everything in life should be free including the space within residental areas.

vard

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

vard wrote: »

Hi guys,

Hope this is the right place for this.

I'm currently racking the mildly significant cost of taking the dart regularly to Dun Laoghaire.

I don't drive as the car park prices are largely extortionate, and I don't know of anywhere nearby where I can avail of free parking.

Is there anywhere at all? Or has every bit of free space been jumped upon by pay and displays? I don't mind having to walk 10-20 minutes or so to and from the car, so if anyone has any advice or could help me I'd really appreciate it.

Am I getting this right? Working but too broke to afford/pay regular car parking fees (which another poster has indicated are available for € 3.50/day), but instead want to locate free off-street parking space outside someone's home / private house to use as your own free all day office parking space?

I would suggest you re-consider your tactics, I doubt few locals anywhere would welcome this type of plague parking?

Yep.

shar01

eth0 wrote: »

Serious answer : Cross Avenue, by the Seat dealer. Place be packed in the evening but you might get a space there or around that general area anyway

Ah don't go there. The last thing you want to do is annoy the locals. It's busy enough as it is and I'd hate for the traffic wardens to clamp down on a business. Times are tough enough.

Guy:Incognito

eth0 wrote: »

. Pay parking is a plague and a nuisance to everyone except the councils who are hungry for more money to waste on useless pet projects such as removing donuts from the road and what have you.
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Pay parkign is brought in to areas where people come from outside and are a plague and a nuisance to the locals.

It's grand to play the poor downtrodded worker when your the one coming to park there, not so good when you live in the street and cant get up and down it most days.

Mycroft H

vard wrote: »

Hi guys,

Hope this is the right place for this.

I'm currently racking the mildly significant cost of taking the dart regularly to Dun Laoghaire.

I don't drive as the car park prices are largely extortionate, and I don't know of anywhere nearby where I can avail of free parking.

Is there anywhere at all? Or has every bit of free space been jumped upon by pay and displays? I don't mind having to walk 10-20 minutes or so to and from the car, so if anyone has any advice or could help me I'd really appreciate it.

Your not going to save any money over the dart, I can guarantee that.

coylemj

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Pay parkign is brought in to areas where people come from outside and are a plague and a nuisance to the locals.

It's grand to play the poor downtrodded worker when your the one coming to park there, not so good when you live in the street and cant get up and down it most days.

That's why hospitals charge for parking - because giving the Irish anything for free means it gets abused, in the case of hospitals by people who work nearby using it as a free car park.

vard

Just to mention, I am actually out of work at present and entirely broke. I'm living off the meagre deposit which was recently returned by my previous landlord. I am not eligible for the dole or any sort of benefit; I find it difficult to scrape money together for food, let alone travel costs. There's a stench of undue prejudicial begrudgery here - all those nasty horrible workers with their cars and their parking on the road. Thankfully, I'll soon be able to join the club as I'm headed off west and will finally have an income again next month.

Your property does not extend onto the road. Unless otherwise marked, it's free game for public parking. Get a driveway and quit whinging.

eth0

shar01 wrote: »

Ah don't go there. The last thing you want to do is annoy the locals. It's busy enough as it is and I'd hate for the traffic wardens to clamp down on a business. Times are tough enough.

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Pay parkign is brought in to areas where people come from outside and are a plague and a nuisance to the locals.

It's grand to play the poor downtrodded worker when your the one coming to park there, not so good when you live in the street and cant get up and down it most days.

Well there's residential areas around there, you wouldn't be bothering anyone really unless you stayed there till when people start to come home. If its busy just venture out another bit and there should be plenty of spaces.

Paid parking is a nuisance to locals as well, plenty of towns have been ruined by the greed of the councils bringing this in. As a result people driving through just keep going until they find the next supermassive shopping centre that offers free parking to hoik people in.

vard wrote: »

Just to mention, I am actually out of work at present and entirely broke. I'm living off the meagre deposit which was recently returned by my previous landlord. I am not eligible for the dole or any sort of benefit; I find it difficult to scrape money together for food, let alone travel costs. There's a stench of undue prejudicial begrudgery here - all those nasty horrible workers with their cars and their parking on the road. Thankfully, I'll soon be able to join the club as I'm headed off west and will finally have an income again next month.

Your property does not extend onto the road. Unless otherwise marked, it's free game for public parking. Get a driveway and quit whinging.

Begrudgery, snobbery, the ould 'pay up, pay up, pay up no matter what' attitude and general intolerance those around you seems not to have left the minds of some people since the Tiger died. You're supposed to feel like a scrounger for taking a free parking space when there's paid ones available, what a laugh.