Novena parking

Mrs OBumble

Over
100 parking tickets have been issued to worshippers illegally parked outside
Galway Cathedral during this week’s Annual Solemn Novena.


Most of the tickets – each €40 – were issued on Tuesday and Wednesday but
particularly during Wednesday’s early morning session at 7.45am when illegally
parked cars prevented a coach operator from parking in a designated bus bay.
And while Galway City Council are unrepentant about their actions, one city councillor has accused the Local Authority of targeting the event to raise extra revenue.

ref: http://www.galwaynews.ie/30259-council-unrepentant-novena-ticketing-blitz

Fair play to the council: I've had several people tell me that they decided to take the bus rather than drive and run the risk of gettin a parking ticket.


(See, they do the right thing sometimes.)

swiftman

ya yesterday aswel, was driving past, tickets out and few cars clamped
makes me so happy seeing this happen.
pity the age to apply to be traffic warden is 25. im counting down the days :cool:

soundbyte

Cars clamped? Where?

swiftman

soundbyte wrote: »

Cars clamped? Where?

on the foot path outside the cathedral, about 4 yesterday

snubbleste

Who is clamping the cars? What location exactly did you see the clamped vehicles?
On the plus side there are no vehicles on the footpath on University Rd/Goal Rd (so far) and all traffic is navigating by unhindered.

snubbleste

swiftman wrote: »

on the foot path outside the cathedral, about 4 yesterday

The Council don't have a clamping contract

swiftman

snubbleste wrote: »

Who is clamping the cars? What location exactly did you see the clamped vehicles?
On the plus side there are no vehicles on the footpath on University Rd/Goal Rd (so far) and all traffic is navigating by unhindered.

here outside the disabled parking spot on the footpath http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=galway&ll=53.274702,-9.056603&spn=0.000909,0.002642&hnear=Galway,+County+Galway&gl=ie&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=53.274702,-9.056603&panoid=ew34kdBACSyci8vTTWYQVg&cbp=12,216.64,,0,19.28

as i said i was in a car going past, car was clamped and i wasnt there when it was being clamped. traffic warden was 3 cars away taking things down.

dr.bollocko

Thou shalt not park illegally.

snubbleste

Footpaths were occupied by abandoned cars earlier. I'm guessing folk are aware that traffic wardens sleep in on a Sunday.

Lapin

I don't know who I detest more.

Clampers.

Or those who think they have some divine right to park where they like because they are going to mass to pray for us sinners.

To hell with them all.

confuseddotcom

Heil Carpark

Heil Carpark,
full of cars,
The Clampers is with thee,
Blessed art thou among Motorists,
And blessed is the Residents
of thy womb houses.
Holy footpaths,
Mother of kerbs,
Pray for us parking now,
and at the hour of our clamping.

Amen.

joeKel73

Loooads of cars parked on footpaths and double yellow lines this evening. Do they not ticket on Sundays?

GalwayKiefer

If someone is ignorant enough to park on a footpath the car should be towed away imo. A fine or a clamp still forces wheelchair users or parents with buggies to go out on the road to get around the car.

ronnie3585

Some inspired parking within the grounds of the cathedral.



Linky

snubbleste

I can hear faint wailing and hysteria..news that the Pope is quitting must've got out.

jamesdiver

they really block the whole area up during the novena alright. The council/cathedral should organise a park and ride if they cant provide enough parking spaces for the expected crowds.

plannerscanner

Well done to the council, wardens and private clampers. I have been down around the cathedral numerous times over the novena and very little traffic issues. Nothing like a bit of discipline

fishy fishy

your leader has deserted you, oh ye who goes to novena.

wotchee gonna do??

What a lovely group of people on the Galway forum.

fishy fishy

glad to see clamping in operatin for the novena goers - every year it's the same - they park where they want and give not a thought to any ambulance/fire that might need to get past their cars - same for buggys and wheelchairs. Its about time they realise that running into a church to pray does not exempt them from parking legally. :P

snubbleste

The clamping only applies to the Cathedral car park, not footpaths or the road.
University Road and Goal Road were a free-for-all in terms of parking yesterday and again at 0800 this morning.

fishy fishy

really snubbelest, something should be done about that then. No special privileges - whats good for one is good for the other.

snubbleste

The Council did employ clampers years ago to clamp on footpaths. The contract cost more than the revenue earned and was very unpopular with the public so it was ditched...also events like the Novena and football matches were off limits to the clampers just like the wardens have chosen not to issue parking tickets for decades until this year.

Mrs OBumble

fishy fishy wrote: »

your leader has deserted you, oh ye who goes to novena.

wotchee gonna do??

Well I might pop down there tonight to offer some prayers of thanks (that he's going), and for a little more wisdom in choosing the next one!

Zzippy

Deleted User wrote: »

What a lovely group of people on the Galway forum.

Thanks!

Iwannahurl

snubbleste wrote: »

The Council did employ clampers years ago to clamp on footpaths. The contract cost more than the revenue earned and was very unpopular with the public so it was ditched...also events like the Novena and football matches were off limits to the clampers just like the wardens have chosen not to issue parking tickets for decades until this year.

I knew those clampers, and I never saw them clamp a vehicle parked on a footpath. Their favourite activity, as I recall bitterly, was clamping motorists in municipal car parks whose tickets had expired. Even ten minutes over was a clamping offence.

Any evidence that public events like the Novena and matches were off limits? If not, a damning personal anecdote will do nicely!

Iwannahurl

Novena director to address parking issues: http://www.galwaynews.ie/30330-novena-director-address-parking-issues-cathedral

45mhrc7evo1d3n

A novena attendee told me that the priest was apologising from the altar yesterday to those who had received parking tickets during the novena this year. Apparently he said that they would be talking to the authorities in effort to get them to show more leniency next year. Incredible :rolleyes:

Iwannahurl

The Fr Ted approach to road safety, public policy, law enforcement and the mobility needs of disabled people and pedestrians.

Perhaps if they bless the roads next year it'll all be grand.

antoobrien

fishy fishy wrote: »

your leader has deserted you, oh ye who goes to novena.

wotchee gonna do??

Iwannahurl

Koops80

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Novena director to address parking issues: http://www.galwaynews.ie/30330-novena-director-address-parking-issues-cathedral

nice link, shows noven sues cathedral

Mr_A

There was a time when the police in this country were friends of the church; speeding tickets torn up, drunk driving charges quashed, even a blind eye turned to the odd murder.

Iwannahurl

Not to mention taking a hand in the supply of forced labour to the Magdalene Laundries.

Iwannahurl

Mr_A wrote: »

There was a time when the police in this country were friends of the church; speeding tickets torn up, drunk driving charges quashed, even a blind eye turned to the odd murder.

From today's Irish Times:

snubbleste

Just been listening to Newstalk 12:40-12:45pm
Ciaran Hayes v Ollie Crowe
Ciaran Hayes said that the religious orders were contacted last year in relation to the illicit parking issues and that mass-goers were told from the pulpit to park responsible.
Ollie Crowe says the Council is anti-church!

Ciaran Hayes also stated that he does not have the staff late in the evening to enforce parking laws, that explains partially the Council's reluctance to tackle footpath blockages at the Novena evenings, Sportsground and Pearse stadium.

It's gas listening to Ollie Crowe trying to defend law-breaking

Unrealistic

snubbleste wrote: »

Ciaran Hayes also stated that he does not have the staff late in the evening to enforce parking laws, that explains partially the Council's reluctance to tackle footpath blockages at the Novena evenings, Sportsground and Pearse stadium.

That really beggars belief. The penalty income from properly enforcing parking laws on evenings like that should be more than enough to cover any overtime rates that would be payable.

Private Joker

Unrealistic wrote: »

That really beggars belief. The penalty income from properly enforcing parking laws on evenings like that should be more than enough to cover any overtime rates that would be payable.

it would probably require more staff and there is a recruitment ban.

snubbleste

Actually community wardens have been witnessed issuing parking tickets on Friday nights at 11pm on Eyre St and Eglinton St.

jased10s

its called a foot path for a reason.

Not called a cycle path

Or a car path

ITS A FOOT PATH.

joeKel73

So what's the craic with people using zebra crossings?

Iwannahurl

J o e wrote: »

So what's the craic with people using zebra crossings?

That's a horse of a different colour.

thesandeman

Iwannahurl wrote: »

That's a horse of a different colour.

I hate doing it but that post deserves a 'thanks'.

Iwannahurl

thesandeman wrote: »

I hate doing it but that post deserves a 'thanks'.

Likewise.