NCPS - do they enforce illegal parking?

dantastic

Where I live NCPS is brought in by the council to manage the on street parking. They have set up zones around the village with different times/days etc.

My question is, do NCPS only enforce where a car has parked in a legal space but have not paid the ticket? As in, will they clamp someone parked on double yellow lines or at a bus stop?

If they do enforce illegal parking, do they also enforce illegal parking outside the hours the ticket machines work for?

mullingar

dantastic wrote: »

Where I live NCPS is brought in by the council to manage the on street parking. They have set up zones around the village with different times/days etc.

My question is, do NCPS only enforce where a car has parked in a legal space but have not paid the ticket? As in, will they clamp someone parked on double yellow lines or at a bus stop?

If they do enforce illegal parking, do they also enforce illegal parking outside the hours the ticket machines work for?

Parking on double yellow or bus stop inside or outside any defined hours could and should mean an instant tow by the council/ncps/garda.

dantastic

I think should really is the keyword.
I'm trying to find out who is actually responsible on Sundays where I live. On Sundays it's complete chaos and disaster. There is a church there as well so during mass hours the road is often blocked by abandoned cars.

There are problems during weekdays as well with people parking where they clearly are blocking but NCPS only seem to be interested in the allocated parking spaces and if people have paid there.

Anan1

Have you asked NCPS?

dantastic

Anan1 wrote: »

Have you asked NCPS?

I haven't to be fair. Was hoping someone here would know the score about these things.

Greenmachine

Anan1 wrote: »

Have you asked NCPS?

You most likely find them parked illegally on the Drumcondra road.

blackwhite

mullingar wrote: »

Parking on double yellow or bus stop inside or outside any defined hours could and should mean an instant tow by the council/ncps/garda.

They won't. The clampers have no interest in illegal parking, only overstays on paid-parking spots.

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This spot is on my commute every morning and evening. There is always some lazy f*cker parked here, either going into the laundrette or the chipper (often taxis at night popping in for a snack :mad:).
There's usually traffic waiting at the lights in the opposite direction, so illegal parking here can actually block traffic turning into South Lotts Rd, and on the odd occasion can result in the junction being blocked by backed up traffic.

On more than one occasion the Dublin City Council clampers have been the other side of the railway bridge (it's paid parking till midnight, and catches a lot of people out) and I've pulled up and asked them are they going to do anything about the illegal parking outside the chipper. The response has always been "call the guards."
I've asked them why don't they call the guards, seeing as parking enforcement is their job? The answer from one of them - I don't get paid to do that :mad:

djimi

Clamping a car on double yellow lines or in a bus stop would be counter productive anyway.

Larbre34

NCPS itself is irrelevant. The particular terms of the Council bye-laws in the town in question will determine what types of enforcement, ticketing, clamping etc NCPS will carry out, they are only a contractor. Ask whatever Council runs the town.

Normally clamps are only put on where the vehicle doesnt cause an obstruction, however as a good example a clamp was put on a car by some bright spark parking nazi on DYLs on Kevin Street two nights ago which completely obstructed one lane of traffic coming from Cuffe Street causing long tailbacks, when the owner returned he couldnt move it out of the way even if he wanted to

BMJD

You can park where you like when mass is involved.

blackwhite

djimi wrote: »

Clamping a car on double yellow lines or in a bus stop would be counter productive anyway.

Agreed - but it's ridiculous having people employed in parking enforcement who actively ignore illegal parking.

Council-employed clampers really should also have the power to issue parking tickets in situations where they cannot clamp. Parking illegally causes much more disruption around urban areas than someone over-staying in a legal parking bay.