Airside Retail Park

Dublinhurler

Hi,

Does anyone have contact details of the management company over Airside Retail Park. Im trying to contact someone in charge of the car park.

cheers

Dizzyblonde

It doesn't come up in a Google search. If you phone one of the stores someone should be able to tell you.

sidcon

Only thing I can find is David Daly property management were the original management company who built it you could try them he went into nama so not sure if they still run it,

Lead

jones lang lasalle are the management company for Airside.

Tropheus

I think the person that designed the car park at Airside was taken out and shot. If not, they should be.

pinkypinky

Well, if not shot, put in a small cell with the planners in Fingal who allowed it to be built that way.

ILikeBoats

It is a ridiculous car park

Wishbone Ash

pinkypinky wrote: »

... with the planners in Fingal who allowed it to be built that way.

...or perhaps who specified that it should be designed that way.

The Davestator

ILikeBoats wrote: »

It is a ridiculous car park

it is..but.... if people used all the entries and exits, it wouldn't be too bad. The problem is that people coming up the hill insist on going right at the first turn beside McD's (even though the road is backed up) That means they have to sit and wait for the road to empty a little before moving. And because they're normally too far left on the road, there is no room to go straight. GRRRRRR

If people drove up to the next exit, the whole thing would move better.

Squeaksoutloud

The Davestator wrote: »

it is..but.... if people used all the entries and exits, it wouldn't be too bad. The problem is that people coming up the hill insist on going right at the first turn beside McD's (even though the road is backed up) That means they have to sit and wait for the road to empty a little before moving. And because they're normally too far left on the road, there is no room to go straight. GRRRRRR

If people drove up to the next exit, the whole thing would move better.

Plenty of room for right turn lanes there. No idea why they were never put in. Similar Set up to rathcoole avoca would sort it out and also stop people performing the prohibited right turn when coming out of the car park. Crazy not done like this yet.

Arthur Daley

It didn't take a genius to realise most of airside's traffic was going to come from the b&q M1 end so the vast majority will use that first junction and that is the bottleneck on saturday/sunday afternoons.

It is a very tight car park in general but it's there nearly 20 years at this stage. In the first few years it didn't have the traffic it has developed in recent years, so they may not have foreseen such growth when it was planned back in the late 90s.

plodder

Got stuck in the Airside melee today. What an absolute kip of a retail park. Little boreens that you can't turn left or right without driving over the kerbs, when it's busy. A little narrow footpath that if you step off, you run the risk of being run over by frustrated car traffic. The parking attendants did their best, but it needs some (simple) re-engineering to make it easier to get around.

shesty

I approached Airside from the Holywell end yesterday around 2.30pm.Saw the two lines of traffic from almost Tesco, stretching towards Airside, so I took a right around the roundabout and cut thrugh to Kinsealy instead.Some.serious work needs to be done on that Airside road layout, it is no longer fit for purpose.Was never great to start with.

The Davestator

Was there yesterday and I think the car park could easily be fixed. Make the current road beside the shops a pedestrian walkaway. Open some of the other ends, give McD's it's own entrance. Make the roads in and out a one way - 3 entrance and 3 exit.
Who do I invoice?!

dvdman1

The Davestator wrote: »

it is..but.... if people used all the entries and exits, it wouldn't be too bad. The problem is that people coming up the hill insist on going right at the first turn beside McD's (even though the road is backed up) That means they have to sit and wait for the road to empty a little before moving. And because they're normally too far left on the road, there is no room to go straight. GRRRRRR

If people drove up to the next exit, the whole thing would move better.

I dont think you can simple say "if people used" planners are supposed to take the human element into there overall plan...the car park is a really bad design, it pools the cars right outside the storefront putting pedestrians right beside turning cars...truly awful to top it off lets place a McDonald's in the car park and lets not section it off leaving possible roaming kids or families walking into the path of cars.

PCros

The traffic has been the worst in years. I saw it backed up to Holywell and that was 3 weeks ago never mind the run up to Christmas.

There's a huge amount of space in front the car dealerships to reclaim and put a second lane for traffic. This could run from the Ryanair roundabout all the way up to the lights at Boroimhe/Airport Road.

Secondly is there any plan to link the Ryanair roundabout to the roundabout at the back of Holywell? Anyone travelling to Malahide & Kinsealy would take this route and it would greatly reduce traffic at the Tesco roundabout.

neris

PCros wrote: »

Secondly is there any plan to link the Ryanair roundabout to the roundabout at the back of Holywell? Anyone travelling to Malahide & Kinsealy would take this route and it would greatly reduce traffic at the Tesco roundabout.

Youd still have the log jam at the roundabout though at Ryanair with traffic now coming from an additional direction trying to get into airside. The whole areas a mess really not just airside the roundabout at the little hotel on the N1 doesnt help either with backing traffic up into airside

PCros

Yes I suppose that is true indeed...probably impossible to fix.

Swords has become too busy and it all started when they decided to build a shopping centre in a village.

Hoboo

Dublinhurler wrote: »

Hi,

Does anyone have contact details of the management company over Airside Retail Park. Im trying to contact someone in charge of the car park.

cheers

Were you clamped by any chance?

kravmaga

neris wrote: »

Youd still have the log jam at the roundabout though at Ryanair with traffic now coming from an additional direction trying to get into airside. The whole areas a mess really not just airside the roundabout at the little hotel on the N1 doesnt help either with backing traffic up into airside

Ryanair is building a new Head office extension building and then there is planning permission in for an 8 storey high hospital between Tesco and Ryanair, so traffic is just going to in get worse unless Fingal County Council widens the Holywell distributor road

PCros

neris wrote: »

Youd still have the log jam at the roundabout though at Ryanair with traffic now coming from an additional direction trying to get into airside. The whole areas a mess really not just airside the roundabout at the little hotel on the N1 doesnt help either with backing traffic up into airside

Planning permission in now for this new link road from Holywell to Ryanair roundabout including a cycle track too.

More than likely to facilitate employees coming in from Kinsealy or M1 route and bypassing the traffic backed up on the R125. However still very handy for folk around Holywell and Kinsealy to cut over to Airside / Pinnock Hill whether walking or driving.

http://documents.fingalcoco.ie/NorthgatePublicDocs/00689852.pdf