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Free parking dublin city centre on a Sunday?

  • 11-02-2018 1:58am
    #1
    foxy_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭


    Hey I'm heading into city centre tomorrow and going to south william street south D2.

    Public transport in on a Sunday is brutal from where I am heading in from so I'm going to drive.

    Does anyone know if there is free on street parking near there?

    Or 10min walk even from there?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    foxy_j wrote: »
    Hey I'm heading into city centre tomorrow and going to south william street south D2.

    Public transport in on a Sunday is brutal from where I am heading in from so I'm going to drive.

    Does anyone know if there is free on street parking near there?

    Or 10min walk even from there?

    Thanks

    pearse street.

    lots of cars park in the bus lane opposite the fire station. good 100 metres of cars parked along there every Sunday and only 5 minute walk from where you need to be


  • #3
    foxy_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭foxy_j


    barrier86 wrote: »
    pearse street.

    lots of cars park in the bus lane opposite the fire station. good 100 metres of cars parked along there every Sunday and only 5 minute walk from where you need to be

    Brilliant thanks a mil.

    Also does it matter what time as in do they fill up fast? As I won't need to be in til 3pm


  • #4
    n!ghtmancometh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭n!ghtmancometh


    barrier86 wrote: »
    pearse street.

    lots of cars park in the bus lane opposite the fire station. good 100 metres of cars parked along there every Sunday and only 5 minute walk from where you need to be

    Has to be one of the most ridiculous pieces of advice I've ever seen. Don't park in the bus lane OP, unless you want to be clamped or towed.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
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    n!ghtmancometh wrote: »
    Has to be one of the most ridiculous pieces of advice I've ever seen. Don't park in the bus lane OP, unless you want to be clamped or towed.

    I do it every Sunday along with about 100 others. I've probably done it 200 times in the past and neither I, or anyone else has ever been clamped.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
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    foxy_j wrote: »
    Brilliant thanks a mil.

    Also does it matter what time as in do they fill up fast? As I won't need to be in til 3pm

    usually pretty full up around noon. however you will usually find a spot most of the day


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  • #7
    liger
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    barrier86 wrote: »
    I do it every Sunday along with about 100 others. I've probably done it 200 times in the past and neither I, or anyone else has ever been clamped.

    just don't block the bus stop and you are okay.

    Bus lane on Aungier street is the same. on street parking and loading bay Exchequer st and drury st also.


  • #8
    foxy_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭foxy_j


    Great thanks. Didn't know you could park in a loading bay on a sunday :)


  • #9
    markpb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,390 ✭✭✭markpb


    foxy_j wrote: »
    Great thanks. Didn't know you could park in a loading bay on a sunday :)

    You can park in a loading bay if it's out of hours. Most are 7-7 Monday to Saturday but not all. Check before you park.


  • #10
    pclive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭pclive


    Just park fully up on a footpath

    Noone seems to care anymore


  • #11
    TheTruthIsMine
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 97 ✭✭TheTruthIsMine


    barrier86 wrote: »
    pearse street.

    lots of cars park in the bus lanee
    did you mean "lots of cars parked in the bus lane?"

    Or maybe you meant that there's a car park in the bus lane?!

    That sounds mad.


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  • #12
    Qrt
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    TheTruthIsMine wrote: »
    did you mean "lots of cars parked in the bus lane?"

    Or maybe you meant that there's a car park in the bus lane?!

    That sounds mad.

    There's dedicated parking spaces within a bus lane in Ballymun. I wish it were a joke.

    Dropped pin
    near Ballymun Rd, Ballymun, Dublin
    https://goo.gl/maps/8NJNm7xB13v


  • #13
    cython
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    Qrt wrote: »
    There's dedicated parking spaces within a bus lane in Ballymun. I wish it were a joke.

    Dropped pin
    near Ballymun Rd, Ballymun, Dublin
    https://goo.gl/maps/8NJNm7xB13v

    Spaces seem to only available for parking outside the hours of operation of the bus lane though, so not quite as silly as you suggest (unless there's another set where the hours of operation of parking and bus lane overlap?):

    454078.png


  • #14
    magicbastarder
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    don't mind the sign, there's constantly cars parked illegally there with no sign of any clampdown. despite/because of (take your pick) the fact that it's outside the garda station.


  • #15
    markpb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,390 ✭✭✭markpb


    Guards rarely enforce parking violations inside the DCC boundaries because they leave that to DSPS. Unfortunately their priorities are the city centre and, even there, it’s focused on parking bay violations and, occasionally, clearway enforcement.


  • #16
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,888 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    whether this will have any effect remains to be seen:

    https://twitter.com/CharlieFlanagan/status/1010487132836724736


  • #17
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,622 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    markpb wrote: »
    Guards rarely enforce parking violations inside the DCC boundaries because they leave that to DSPS. Unfortunately their priorities are the city centre and, even there, it’s focused on parking bay violations and, occasionally, clearway enforcement.

    DSPS are out there all day clamping people who's parking time has expired in regular parking spots (white rectangles).

    And it's not just the city centre, they clamp all around D4, including in Sandymount and even the laneways off Raglan Road, Wellington Road etc.


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